GRANDVIEW, Mon. — Police are searching for a man who used a blow torch to try and steal money from a carwash, according to Fox4kc.com.
Big Billie’s Car Wash caught the act on surveillance video, noted the article. Police found the melted lock from the change box at the scene.
“What [the suspect] didn’t know is there [are] two locked doors, and when you open the first door it sets the alarm off,” said Mike Lane, manager of the wash, in the article.
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“He came in and he had a blow torch in his trunk, [he] put the hoses through the back seat then pulled them out the window and he cut the bars [and] lock off the box,” Lane continued in the article.
Lane also noted the thief probably only stole about five dollars since the change boxes are emptied twice a day.
Click here to read the entire article and view the surveillance footage.
