Around 50 Austin food trucks targeted in months-long string of burglaries

kxan ^ | July 18, 2019 | Alex Caprariello

[bgill]

Austin police are reaching out to the community to track down two suspects connected to numerous burglaries across Austin.

Police are searching for two white men that have targeted around 40-50 food trucks since April.

The men are going after clusters of food trucks throughout the city without a specific location, but appear to be tracking food truck parks, police say.

Officials say downtown Austin and the area north of U.S. Highway 183 appear to be the main clusters, but there have been other targeted trucks.

Police estimate the men have stolen several thousands of dollars including tablets, money boxes and tip jars.

[bgill]

Guess these Austin libs are too afraid to sleep armed inside their trucks and put a stop to this.

These trucks are easy targets. Idiot owners who leave tablets and money inside.

[a fool in paradise]

All property is theft
Keep Austin Anarchist-Socialist

[Retired Chemist]

"two white men"

Would they have said two black men if they had been black?

[Blue Jays]

"...would they have said the same thing had the two men been black?..."

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Agreed. That is the very first thing about the article that jumped out at me, too.

[drwoof]

They would have referred to them as “teens”, or “youths”.

[Stravinsky]

Not very smart to leave cash boxes and tip jars with $$$ inside a food truck overnight.

[JohnnyP]

White men because that’s rare?