I know people will find this hard to believe, but I was a contractor at Asda, and as I entered the store, to meet a colleague, he rang me, to say there is a raid in progress. Next thing these 3 guys ran past me, pointing a gun, then attempted, eventually to get into their 2 door getaway car. As they couldn't decide who would sit in the backseat. A police minibus turns up, and chases them round the carpark, until they make their escape.
It transpired that the robbers put their masks on when they left their house, to drive to site (?), they were spotted outside, so the alarms were set off even before they entered the building, they then used a petrol powered angle grinder to saw the hinges off the atm in the lobby, but slipped, and took one of their fingers off, which the police fingerprinted, went straight round to their house, spoke to neighbours, who said, yes, I thought it strange, them loading all those tools, and wearing balaclavas, in the middle of summer...and arrested them all. The ATM was empty anyway.
Later that day, or the next day, I was shopping there, and a huge team of contractors turned up to remove the ATM's (they do this if violence is used to rob banks/atms etc); but they didn't have the alarm codes for the safe interlocks, so work was halted. I happened to have the interlock code, from memory, and knew where a spare key to the alarm panel was kept. Saviour of the day. And a free weekly shop. You really CANNOT make this up, truth is stranger than fiction. And criminals are more stupid than stupid people.
This post is ABSOLUTELY true. Having a gun pointed at me, with no support from my employers, I went to pieces, and was made redundant, as was my colleage a few months later.
