ATM Axing

Last night, while watching the 10:00 news the lead story was of a man in Frisco, TX (home of oversized SUVs and my brother) that had destroyed three ATMs with an axe, no doubt in an effort to pay his Am Ex bill after the over-indulgent Christmas that his wife insisted upon.

The problem with this is two things. Number 1, in all of his strenious effort to hack open the ATM he never bothered to cover, look away from, or foil the VIDEO CAMERA that every ATM in the world has attached to them just above the keypad. So naturally the camera caught his face so well that I would be able to recognize him if I knew him. That was his first mistake.

His second and almost impossibly stupid mistake is that he had what appeared to be a ski mask on top of his head but it was not pulled down across his face. While this mistake probably caused the first mistake it makes me wonder, have thieves become too stupid to even try and get away with it.

He hit three banks and got nothing. He succeeded in getting not one single solitary dime from any of his axing escapades. Sad, really. Considering the effort that he went to.