Oops, only cheques, not cash....ATM machine at Penang??? YAU MOU GAU...CHOR!!

Oops, only cheques, not cash

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BUKIT MERTAJAM: The three men came well prepared with a fishing net and rope to rob the bank in Jalan Anson.

But the bungling would-be robbers netted a cheque deposit machine instead of a cash dispensing machine.

After they managed to pull the machine out and finding it was not an ATM, the men left it outside the bank.

They had arrived at the bank in a lorry and a pick-up truck at 3am.

First they threw the net over a machine they thought was a cash dispensing ATM located on the first floor and tied one end of the rope to the net and the other end to the two vehicles.

They then pulled the machine off its floor mountings, through a glass wall and down a flight of stairs onto the ground floor.

The crashing sounds alerted the security guard, who shouted at the robbers.

Seberang Prai Tengah CID chief Deputy Supt Chor Ah Sing said the robbers fled before the police arrived.

In Kluang, police obtained a court order to extend the remand of nine men suspected to have made off with an ATM in Taman Intan on Friday.

Magistrate Nooraisyah Ahmad ordered the suspects, aged between 25 and 36, to remanded until Aug 14.

They are suspected to have stolen the ATM at about 4am using a lorry and a pickup truck.

The ATM, which had run out of cash, was found in an oil palm plantation about 5km from the bank. – Bernama