Seems like robbing a bank would be easier.
A thief was caught on surveillance video stealing an ATM from Salerno’s, a popular pizza place in the city’s West Town neighborhood.
It wasn’t exactly an express withdrawal. The alleged intruder spent 20 minutes inside the well-known eatery. When he didn’t find any cash, he left with a cash station.
Salerno’s owner, Peter Lia, said he was stunned by the video showing the alleged burglar wheeling away his restaurant’s ATM.
He finds a dolly, and soon he’s back upstairs, leaping over more counters and, at one point, stopping at the surveillance monitors – clearly aware that he’s being recorded.
But there’s no stopping now. The ATM machine is bolted to the floor in a corner next to the bar, but he manages to muscle it free.
Minutes later, he’s out the front door with the ATM on the dolly as he makes his getaway on Racine Avenue.
Twenty minutes after breaking in, the snow did him no favors as he awkwardly wheels the ATM through the parking lot to a vehicle.
The thief might have seen the scene from the movie Barbershop and tried it out for himself.