Thieves used a backhoe — a large piece of construction equipment — to break into an ATM in Chicago, and somehow, no one noticed.
Just when we thought crime in Chicago couldn’t get any worse, this happens. This is Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Chicago, this is what Democrats’ soft-on-crime policies lead to.
According to information from the Chicago Police Department, a backhoe was stolen from a construction site located on the south side of the city. The thieves then drove the equipment approximately 20 miles to a Chase bank located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, and used backhoe’s jackhammer to smash open the ATM.
It is unclear at this time how much money was stolen. The backhoe was later left in a parking lot.
Surveillance footage from a nearby liquor store captured the crime, according to local news outlet WBBM-TV. The video showed a car pulling up to the strip mall where the bank was located at approximately 1 a.m., with the backhoe following behind.
“This is crazy. This is insane. What is wrong with us?” area resident Gina Stewart told WBBM. “This is what we’re doing now? This is what we’ve resorted to? This is absolutely insane.”
“How could somebody do something like this and nobody hears anything?” said another local resident.
WATCH: Thieves in the Democrat-run city of Chicago used a stolen backhoe to break into an ATM.
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While most people were either flabbergasted by the crime, or concerned about its implications, the folks at Louder With Crowder (a conservative comedy site) went a different way, marveling at it and laughing at the audacity, writing:
“I don’t live in a liberal city where liberal politicians have made crime legal. I live in real America where those politicians don’t get elected, so I can laugh about this.
You must give the thieves credit for ingenuity!
Imagine how that brainstorming session went: There is a group of associates who were planning a heist. One of them, probably joking at first, suggested that, since they were stealing anyway, they should steal a backhoe? They could drive it to the ATM machine, use it to break into the ATM, and leave it for the owner to claim later. So, it wasn’t ‘stealing’ the backhoe, per se. It was more like borrowing it without permission.
At first, it was a crazy idea, but then, when no one had any better ones, another one in the group said, ‘F*ck it. Who do we know with a backhoe?’”