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Thieves Use Vacuum To Siphon Cash From Safes

Posted by samzenpus on from the gone-with-the-wind dept.

Tootech writes "A gang of thieves armed with a powerful vacuum cleaner that sucks cash from supermarket safes has struck for the fifteenth time in France. The burglars broke into their latest store near Paris and drilled a hole in the pneumatic tube that siphons money from the checkout to the strong-room. They then sucked rolls of cash totaling £60,000 from the safe without even having to break its lock. Police said the gang — dubbed the Vacuum Burglars — always raid Monoprix supermarkets and have hit 15 of the stores branches around Paris in the past four years. A spokesman added: 'They spotted a weakness in the company's security system and have been exploiting it ever since.'"

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  1. Duckburg by Sonny+Yatsen · · Score: 5, Funny

    Did anyone else picture the Beagle Boys doing this when you read the article?

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  2. Wow. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That sucks.

  3. If only they had the glue. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Barks/show.php?s=date&loc=1963/W_US_42-02

  4. time ot sue vacuum makers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    after all like software that does p2p its the cause of them being able to steal cash....we need to regulate and make sure you have controls for the vacuums

  5. Re:You can make this stuff up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's it. We should ban vacuums.

  6. Re:Similar to Mission Impossible by bsDaemon · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, nothing sucks like a VAX...

  7. 15 branches of the same store in Paris? by macwhizkid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are they living in a vacuum? How many times do you have to get suckered before you change your system? Their business must really be going down the tubes. It blows me away.

    (I'm just cleaning up today... :)

    1. Re:15 branches of the same store in Paris? by arndawg · · Score: 1, Funny

      They're French. It's in their nature to lose stuff.

    2. Re:15 branches of the same store in Paris? by cmiller173 · · Score: 3, Funny

      So your saying the store simply surrendered?

    3. Re:15 branches of the same store in Paris? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I was going to reply "I'm French, you insensitive clod", but decided to give up.

  8. Re:Noise by i.r.id10t · · Score: 3, Funny

    The famous "Somebody else's problem" field

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  9. Re:You can make this stuff up. by cmiller173 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wouldn't a government required registration of vacuums be sufficient?

  10. Re:Fool me once... by Kenoli · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fool me... 15 times... :(

  11. Re:You can make this stuff up. by Abstrackt · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's it. We should ban vacuums.

    That idea sucks.

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  12. Re:You can make this stuff up. by Lumpy · · Score: 3, Funny

    No..

    declare only terrorists own vacuums..

    Then point out to the moron senators that space is full of vacuum and we should declare war on it.

    Suddenly NASA has all the money it needs.

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  13. Re:You can make this stuff up. by CraftyJack · · Score: 2, Funny

    That idea sucks.

    Watch the language...let's keep it clean.

  14. Re:You can make this stuff up. by jpyeck · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've already seen the bumper sticker for that: "Mean People Suck"