As ATM cash machines exploded all across Philadelphia early Tuesday morning, one enterprising young looter got a whole lot more than he bargained for. He got his chips cashed in by what looks like premature detonation. The unidentified 24-year-old died hours later in a nearby hospital.
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One thief dead after ATM explosion
Things didn’t go quite the way they were planned during what was supposed to be just another routine ATM heist. Antifa radicals have gotten rather good at blowing up cash machines in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The ones they can’t blow up, they drag away.
Young thugs targeted the money machine conveniently located along a sidewalk in front of a Susquehanna Avenue sports bar. Around 6:15 a.m. the police got a call about the explosion and discovered the man with severe “trauma to his upper body.”
Investigators have lot’s of clues to work with. They found “live explosives” alongside the “blasted ATM.” There was debris clear out in the street and they found a suspicious vehicle parked nearby.
Organized and coordinated effort
Authorities are calling the entire series of widespread ATM robberies involving explosives and stolen machines an organized effort. According to police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, the heists appear to be “organized” and “coordinated” efforts. That’s why “the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is taking the lead in the investigation.”
Local residents report “blasts” and explosions all through the night as radical terrorists continue to burn and loot their way across the nation. So far, there haven’t been any arrests after at least 10 machines were robbed.
The method of attack was similar in all the hijackings. “In most cases,” police explain, “thieves set off explosive devices, blowing up the machines before making off with the cash. In other cases, they would just steal the machines.”
They had to try twice with the ATM outside Blue Jay Restaurant and 29th Street and Girard Avenue in Brewerytown. They blew it up Monday night but couldn’t withdraw the cash. They returned Tuesday night and blasted it again. This time it worked.