I have found the safest time to visit a bank machine is around 6am in the morning, when these creeps have fallen asleep.
It sounds like a good opportunity to turn the tables, if you carried.
It happened recently when “a man” followed a woman home and left her crippled. They used to be called teens and youths. Calling them a man makes it look like Toxic Masculinity is the problem. I wonder if this story is about “a man”.
Whenever I get money from an ATM I’m looking everywhere for predators. And as soon as the money comes out, I put my back against the wall as I count and put my money away as I continue to scan the area. Then I continue my shopping or get in my vehicle. The way I maintain my situational awareness would have any potential criminal immediately decide to pass on me as his next victim, as criminals look to prey on the weak, not the strong. But if one were crazy enough to come after me, I still have my good buddy on my hip.
It should be pretty easy for cops to catch “juggers” by sending an officer disguised as a civilian to a bank or ATM. He comes out flashing the cash and drives to a stake out location where backup is waiting.
I say lure them into a dark alley and then bushwhack-em. Easy as pie. Let the wild dogs eat the stinking bodies.
Situational awareness and one in the pipe.
Change it to fishing where the ATM user lures the robber to someplace where the robber makes his ATTEMPT at jugging and then..
She was nuts to withdraw thousands from an ATM. Instead, ask for a bank officer to count it out with you in a back room. Far from prying eyes.
Solution: Don’t use cash
Plastic is the easier and more efficient way to access your electronic ledger
https://propmoney.com/
Or you could just do the Rockford episode maneuver (not the reverse donut in your Firebird).
When you notice someone following you and you’re sure they are, just drive into the nearest police station.
99+% of the real estate in the US of A does not have these problems, I’d recommend moving.
Back in the 60s and 70s when college graduates went to Europe in droves, people who knew advised everyone to keep their real money inside their clothes, and have a fake wallet, and for women a fake handbag. Europe still hadn’t fully recovered from WW2, and there was a lot of poverty, and hence, street crime.
When I went to Italy in the 80s, things had improved; but travel advice still said that thieves on motor scooters would ride by and rip the handbag from your shoulder and keep going at speed, or even cut the strap of your purse or camera bag off your back in church as you knelt at the altar. So I hid money and passport in a zipper belt under my clothes, and carried my sunglasses, scarf and travel brochures in a shoulder bag.
I have lately resumed those practices in my own country.
Prominently Check your gun as you wait for the ATM to dispense you cash…
Stop using ATMs!
Haven’t used one since they first arrived....many moons/decades ago.