tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579719431387122896.post374543448729035857..comments2024-03-29T11:21:15.992-04:00Comments on Tomorrow's News Today - Atlanta: Get Your Electronics Ready! ecoATM is Coming to Lenox Square Atlantan99http://www.blogger.com/profile/06115362060612910966noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-579719431387122896.post-14363305962373419682013-09-13T08:50:09.123-04:002013-09-13T08:50:09.123-04:00Based on the experience in Baltimore, I’d have to ...Based on the experience in Baltimore, I’d have to say that these machines are not only used by thieves, they actually create the incentive to become a thief. <br /><br />Recently, in my former city, there was a series of brazen phone thefts in one of the leafier northern reaches of Baltimore. Day after day, some kids would steal a car, drive to the better neighborhood, stick up joggers and walkers for their phones then keep driving, over the city line, to the mall which had one of these ecoATMs to dump their new loot for cash. <br /><br />If you map them out, these robberies were pretty much in a straight line to the machine.<br /><br />I’m not normally one to blame crime on “the march of progress,” but I think the causation here is pretty clear. ecoATM is a menace.<br /><br />http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-mta-bus-device-theft-20130318,0,6915502.storyTim Windsorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00724144856429510796noreply@blogger.com