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XZPA Melbourne The Melbourne police were searching yesterday for three rush-hour burglars who found their haul too heavy to handle. The men broke into the
Commonwealth Bank branch at the Chadstone shopping centre and wheeled out a two-metre-tall safe through hundreds of Saturday morning shoppers, even talking to' orc* *■ , _ But the police said they failed to lift the threetonne safe on to the back of a truck with a crane
and a hydraulic jack. j The thieves fled, abandoning the safe containing $20,000, a tarpaulin, and the hydraulic lift. The police were searching for a red truck with a broken-dbwn crane on the
' back. A ‘f ' An observant bystander watched I the attempt to lift the safe and asked them what they were doing. He was told: “We’re just moving the safe.” •' ■ He was not. convinced and rang the police, who arrived after the trio, had decamped.
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