While the guests are sitting next door: cigarette vending machine stolen from the restaurant and broken into

Created: 03/22/2022, 11:44 am

By: Josef Ametsbichler

Cigarette vending machines are often the target of vandalism and theft. (Iconic image) © Wille

A brazen theft occurred on Thursday evening in a restaurant near Grafing: a cigarette machine disappeared there during opening hours.

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- A mobile cigarette vending machine was set up in a restaurant in Straußdorf near Grafing - until last Thursday, March 17th, a previously unknown perpetrator stole the device.

The Ebersberg police now confirmed a corresponding EZ information on request.

Automat on casters gets legs and disappears while guests sit next door

Particularly bold: The machine, which was on wheels, disappeared during the opening hours of the restaurant between 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., when normal business was going on next door.

He was probably stolen with the help of a wheelbarrow, at least that's what the officials suspect.

The device was brought to the end of Moosstraße in Straussdorf and was probably broken into there at the remote location.

Found the next day: machine destroyed and looted

There, in the direction of Filze, the machine was accidentally found lying in the field the following day around Friday afternoon.

The cigarette vending machine had been broken open and left completely empty, reports the Ebersberg inspection.

Tool wheelbarrow?

- Police are looking for witnesses

At the moment, neither the amount of property damage nor the value of the stolen cash or cigarettes is known.

Anyone who has made suspicious perceptions in this context is asked by the investigators to contact the Ebersberg Police Inspectorate on Tel. 08092/8268-0.

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