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Forklift upgrade.
And if stealing almonds wasn't odd enough, criminals are now using forklifts to "smash and dash", removing the automatic teller machines, according to the New York Times:
Around the country, thieves have been hot-wiring forklifts at construction sites, driving up to banks and scooping up automated teller machines.
Even though the machines are often embedded in bank walls, it seems that the banks foresaw their movement and equipped them with GPS locators:
Many banks use A.T.M.’s equipped with global-positioning technology that keeps track of where the machines are. Some have an alarm that goes off if someone tampers with the machine. Even if thieves get away with an A.T.M., they have to pound away pretty hard to get it open.