Posted on 12/26/2022 9:41:42 AM PST by Morgana
A group of five brazen female robbers are being hunted by cops in California after stealing a safe containing more than $9,000.
Surveillance footage from the Produce World Market in Orange shows the women looking at fresh produce, before splitting up to pull off the heist.
In the video footage five women are seen splitting up, three to distract store employees and two who are seen heading to the back of the store to steal the safe.
The 80lb safe is seen being picked up by the two women, put into a shopping cart and covered in scarves.
The women are then seen pushing the cart through the aisles and out the front of the grocery store to a car waiting outside.
Orange Police Department have urged anyone with information to come forward and released a statement saying the behavior was 'disgusting.'
'The audacity of these five criminals, preying on a family business, distracting employees, and stealing their safe which contained earnings is disgusting,' the statement read.
'Please help the Orange Police Department locate these five women so they can be brought to justice for this repulsive act.'
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Were they utes???
It’s legal to steal $9000 in California.
Sounds like an inside job.
Aren’t heavy safes usually also fixed and mounted?
I would have thought they were either bolted to the floor or inside a wall. Yes this has to be an inside job for them to know it was not bolted.
In this case surprisingly, no. They appear to be either the aforementioned Gypsies, Muslims, or maybe Hispanic (though they look much more like one of the other two). One thing’s for sure: The store staff should have been immediately suspicious since they were definitely a rag tag-looking bunch.
I would bet one of them is (was) a store employee or friends with an employee since they knew exactly where the safe was and how big it was.
They took it to their safe space.
“The 80lb safe....”
I think I found the problem
It was the new type woman that says woman can’t be defined. It was 5 Dylans.
That was my first thought, but I don’t know what ‘gypsies’ look like these days. When we’ve encountered them here, they didn’t dress very differently and looked like any number of foreign born people on the street.
You’ve come a long way baby.
I would have thought they were either bolted to the floor
It is SOP to put it down in the floor or bolt it to the floor.
In the '70s we used to invert a metal 40-gallon trash can, remove the bottom, fill it with concrete and place a floor-mount safe into the wet concrete. Now, the safe was three feet off the floor and we didn't need to get down on our hands and knees. I don't know what 40 gallons of concrete weighs, but no girls ever hauled one away.
Later, we graduated to manufactured safes which we bolted to the floor. The trick is, access to the bolt-heads is only through the open safe.
I have a safe that size and it weighs a few thousand pounds, aint nobody moving it
Yes, but that “safe” is already placed on top of a convenient pallet, already set up to be moved in only 45 seconds!
It’ll take a JD 675B SkidLoader to move it, 1” off the floor, to get it out of the garage door. That’s how I got it in there, with my equipment from my Nursery/Garden Center/LSCP Operation. 2,000lbs was the max lift of that machine, even with a weight kit on the back.
Mine weighs 2,000lbs, and it took a JD 675B SkidLoader, with weight kit on back, to get it up the driveway, 1” off the ground, to clear the garage door. Not many groups of “5 women” are going to move it anywhere, especially in a shopping cart.
> My Cannon T65 isn’t going anywhere, at 2 tons. <
I just did a quick calculation. Your T65 is gone if those 5 gals bring 245 friends with them.
“Aneeta Bhole” sounds like a prank call to Moe the Bartender.
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