Safebreakers used Google to break open safe
The burglars might be bunglers but the break in worked
By Tamlin Magee: Jueves 12 Julio 2007, 08:46
EVERYONE REMOTELY web-savvy uses Google for a helping hand or to satiate curiosity, and it would seem criminals are no exception after a bizarre incident at a Colorado Springs amusement arcade.
Two masked burglars broke their way into the building using door keys and went through all the usual burglary to-and-froing - spraying security cameras and bumbling about looking menacing. However, when faced with cracking open the arcade's safe, they were clueless and quickly hopped to a nearby computer for help.
Search records on the computer revealed that the burglars had Googled for "how to open a safe" and "how to crack a safe." Ridiculous as it sounds, the Internet saved the day for the crooks and they made away with a crisp $12,000.
Security film shows around 70 minutes of burglary-related stress and frustration until one gave in and headed to the computer.
Though clearly unprofessional - security footage shows attempts to block cameras using WD-40 which only cleaned the lens, as well as spraying a fire alarm 'just in case' 'twere a camera - the burglars have not yet been caught.
No suspects have yet been identified, reports The Colorado Springs Gazette, nor were any employees working at the time.
The burglars might be bunglers but the break in worked
By Tamlin Magee: Jueves 12 Julio 2007, 08:46
EVERYONE REMOTELY web-savvy uses Google for a helping hand or to satiate curiosity, and it would seem criminals are no exception after a bizarre incident at a Colorado Springs amusement arcade.
Two masked burglars broke their way into the building using door keys and went through all the usual burglary to-and-froing - spraying security cameras and bumbling about looking menacing. However, when faced with cracking open the arcade's safe, they were clueless and quickly hopped to a nearby computer for help.
Search records on the computer revealed that the burglars had Googled for "how to open a safe" and "how to crack a safe." Ridiculous as it sounds, the Internet saved the day for the crooks and they made away with a crisp $12,000.
Security film shows around 70 minutes of burglary-related stress and frustration until one gave in and headed to the computer.
Though clearly unprofessional - security footage shows attempts to block cameras using WD-40 which only cleaned the lens, as well as spraying a fire alarm 'just in case' 'twere a camera - the burglars have not yet been caught.
No suspects have yet been identified, reports The Colorado Springs Gazette, nor were any employees working at the time.
