BOULDER — Customers hoping to use the drive-through ATM at Chase Bank in Gunbarrel today will have to go inside or elsewhere to get cash.
The automatic teller machine is out of commission after one or several would-be thieves ripped the ATM from its base overnight and dragged it about 20 feet before giving up and leaving the cash machine mangled on the grass, according to Boulder police.
Boulder police responded to an alarm at the bank, 6300 Gunpark Drive, about 2 a.m. Wednesday and found an uprooted ATM resting on the lawn, said Boulder police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley. There was an empty space where the ATM used to be, and wires were sticking out of the ground, Huntley said.
A thick metal chain was wrapped around the ATM, which had been dragged onto the bank’s lawn before the would-be thieves gave up, she said. Deep tire tracks mar the grass outside the bank.
“They apparently determined the ATM was too heavy to make off with and left it behind,” Huntley said.
See a video of workers picking up the ATM machine at .
