Telehandler rips cash machine from building society

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A telehandler, a small construction vehicle with an extending arm, ripped a cash machine from the exterior wall of a building society in a brazen daylight theft caught on CCTV. The footage shows the vehicle ramming the building repeatedly before operators wrenched the ATM free and loaded it into a waiting getaway vehicle. The crime is part of a rising trend of so-called "ram raids" targeting cash machines across the UK, where thieves use heavy machinery or vehicles to smash through facades and steal the machines themselves rather than attempting to crack them open.