Thieves make off with two safes containing Y16 million in Tottori
TOTTORI —
Two safes weighing more than 100 kilograms each were stolen from offices of the Yunisan supermarket chain in Tottori Prefecture on Sunday morning, together containing about 16 million yen.
According to police, a security guard noticed at about 3 a.m. Sunday that a window at the office of the Watari branch in Sakaiminato City had been smashed, and called police. A safe containing roughly 11 million yen was missing, and there were scratch marks on the floor, appeared to have been caused by dragging the safe, police said.
Police decided to check on the office of the Wada branch in neighboring Yonago City and discovered that a window there had also been smashed, and a safe containing about 5 million yen was missing. Police also said that the phone lines had been cut at the Wada office and that the alarm had been disabled.
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Mittsu
Good detecting to randomly decide to check the other branch....
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flammenwerfer
that's why you bolt the safe to the floor. It's like locking your bicycle wthout locking it to something - only stops the honest people.
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Proffesor
I once lived in this small city of Tottori and from the story above. It's very easy to find the culprits.
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LFRAgain
Rumor has it that there's a sizeable contingent of Yakuza in Sakaiminato City. Hmm...
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Japanfriend1959
Many many people think they have a secure alarm system when in fact the system is dependent on the telephone land line. Cut it and you are in. Recommend cash be put in nearby banking drop safe. Be careful there too...as thieves have designed how to stuff a bank drop box night box safe and your money bag is really caught for their retrieval. After you leave thinking your cash is inside the bank receipt box...the thief puts a coat hanger in and hooks the money bag back out. Motion sensors independent and off the power grid could help trigger an alarm if an intruder does manage to break into the safe room. Motion senors installed inside the safe or some type of GPS inside the safe insulation interior could help locate or satellite track the safes being stolen. RFID can be tracked like a Maxwell House Coffee can for marketing purposes. In fact you could bait the thieves with a safe you can track and then open up a whole new way of interrogating your caught suspects. Watergate was supposedly sanctioned by a U.S. President...so that goes to show just how high up the power structure criminals can be orchestrated from. You could blame a mob;but then in the days of Jesse James; they would be robbing a bank in another state and at the same time and date they would get blamed for another bank being robbed. Truth be known sometimes like in a crooked furniture or grocery store; dummies are hired. Some are deliberately hired because they are shifty. The shifty thieves steal from the bank hotel or store and get the blame while some wild west bankers were looting the bank themselves. Some grocery chains could blame the crack heads they hired; but then again is one sure the crack heads were the only thieves from the inside. The world is so much more crooked than it was last century. People today don't seem to be ashamed or want to save face for being a thief. Even the vultures descend upon the disabled veterans. It doesn't matter to them. A target is a target. i would blame myself for not bolting down the safe. Honest people don't always see it coming. The owners probably never dreamed someone would actually risk prison or ridicule for stealing their safes. 90 per cent of white collar crime in America is from family stealing from family. It is hard to go up against your family and prosecute. We should claim responsibility for tempting the criminals and making it so easy for them to hijack the safes. From there the criminal is also responsible for committing the crime.
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BBLeo
Not much of security guard isn't it? Shouldn't such guard patrol around on his nfeet? Or was he watching TV perhaps sleeping, or scared to go outside to see darkness of the night. 'TO ME THIS IS AN INSIDE JOB, WHAT DO YOU THINK?'
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PaulieWalnuts
my geography isn't so good. is this the prefecture next to shimane? tonari no tottori?
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