I have found the safest time to visit a bank machine is around 6am in the morning, when these creeps have fallen asleep.
Sometime between 6 AM and noon time. The predators should be asleep by then.
There. Fixed it for ya!
I have found that having my loaded weapon at-hand keeps me from such wasteful fretting...
We don’t have the creeps so I just go whenever. I sometimes listen to the scanner and I think everyone in the county has a Conceal Carry Permit. They offer classes every week.
Depends on the MO of the criminal.
Some years ago, there were robbers in the DC suburbs targeting ATM users picking up cash during their commute into work at 5:00 am.
Since the maximum withdrawal is usually $300 and some of these criminals are prepared to use force up to and including murdering you, these crimes underscore how craven these scum are. It also points out how incompetent they are as robbers.
Unfortunately, between opportunistic lawyers and criminal-sympathetic prosecutors, even defending yourself properly as a licensed CCW holder poses a liability. Carry the weapon, buy the insurance. If you use one, you are going to need the other.
BTW, “jugging” is different from ATM robbery in that the criminals have been known to follow their victims for very long distances before an opportunity to strike presents itself. In the recent case of the Asian woman, the robbery team (19 YO male, 21 YO female) followed her 23 miles from the bank. They wouldn’t do that for a $300.00 payoff.
They profiled her. Asians are known to carry large amounts of cash, are smaller in stature and usually don’t carry firearms. Ditto for older persons as well and for the same reasons. A drive-up or inside teller window transaction with a count out and receiving an envelope with the money would be the tip-off.
This is basically the same MO for driveway robberies of persons returning home with purchases from high end stores.