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This one isn’t so much the crime as the description. From 6 ABC:
EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. — Detectives in New Jersey are trying to track down a coin bandit who has caused several thousands of dollars in damage all to nab some change.
Police say the man has struck several times, hitting businesses along the Black Horse Pike in Egg Harbor Township. They say he busts coin-operated machines open, usually between 1 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.
“Unfortunately he’s getting a little bit of cash but causing a lot of damage,” said Marc Romantino of the Egg Harbor Township Police Department.
Officials say he’s getting less than $100 in each of the robberies, but is causing damage to the machines that is in the neighborhood of $2,000 per machine. “He’s working pretty hard for a little bit of cash,” Romantino said.
Wait, why exactly is the police officer appealing to his sense of… what, poor cost-benefit analysis for taking so much time opening machines? Civic duty that he’s vandalizing more than he gets in cash? Maybe the man is a taxpayer in Egg Harbor Township, and he knows that his crimes could end up raising his taxes due to the city’s soda machine repair budget being stretched to the limit. Yeah, that’s it. Okay, I get it now.
Destructive Bandit On The Run [6 ABC]
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