"Thanks" for the cash, taunts ATM thief

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police are looking for a thief who left a word of thanks after stealing 4.7 million baht (63,500 pounds) from an automatic teller machine at the weekend.


"He wrote the word 'Thanks' on the side of the tampered ATM with a felt-tipped pen. The hand-writing was rather neat. I think he may be trying to taunt us," Lieutenant-Colonel Nathachai Thepsuporn told Reuters on Monday.


Nathachai, the deputy police commander in the northern province of Phrae province where the robbery took place, said the heist appeared to have been the work of someone with a fair knowledge of how an ATM operates.


Near the looted ATM, police found a box of metal-cutting acetylene equipment the thief had used to get through two security doors protecting the rear of the machine.

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