As Seattlemedic7 posted in the forum, the safe was stolen at Taco Time at 2853 NW Market St. last night.
Seattle Police spokesman Detective Mark Jamieson says that a delivery person called police around 11:30 p.m. When officers arrived, they found the front door unlocked. Once inside, Jamieson says officers found the drive-thru window broken. An employee came to the restaurant and told police the only thing missing was a small safe. There is no suspect information. The delivery driver told police that he did not see or hear anything.
Safe stolen from Taco Time last night
Doesn't that make it two times this year?!
It was robbed or burglarized? Let's get our terms correct, these are two very different crimes… Sounds like from the description that it was burglarized…
Just for clarification, what's the difference?
Thank you, travitron, I was just going to say the same thing. Ballard Dad, robbery involves use of a weapon against persons within the establishment being robbed; burglary involves no weapon, usually no one else is in the building at the time.
robbing =victim present
burglary = done in stealth
usually robbing involves a weapon, too.
Good Good Fresh Fresh Robbery Time?
Great, right by where I live. Lame.
Check the ranch dip for finger prints. Any awesome theif would have made themselves a couple of #3's with extra large diet cokes and four sides of ranch.
There's a Taco Time on Market Street? Hm.
Why, again?
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because it's a great place for a first date! Worked for me.
“small” safe = handy carrying case for valuables.
Actually,
Burglary = entering or remaining unlawfully on a premises with intent to commit a crime. The presence of other circumstances (perpetrator has a weapon, assaults another person during commission of the crime, type of building, etc.) determines the type of burglary.
Robbery = the taking of personal property from another person by force or threatened force. Again, the presence of various circumstances (perpetrator is armed, displays a weapon, victim is a bank, inflicts injury, etc.) determines the type and degree of the crime.
You can commit robbery without a weapon. The difference is if the victim is present at the time of the theft.
Nobody home, burglary.
Somebody home, robbery.
To confuse things further an unarmed robbery is also just called a theft.
It would have cost another $50 to rent a masonry drill to bolt it down. I wonder if the thief left the little baggy of bolts?
Yes, it does seem strange that it wasn't securely fastened to the structure. Since nothing else was apparently taken, you have to wonder about an inside job…
Most of the time those safes are just for show, or to prevent employee pilfering.
Another funny thing is that most stores leave their registers unlocked and wide open over night. The thinking is that there is usually only enough money to make change in the morning and they'd rather lose $25-$50 bucks cash instead of having their $500 cash register broken or stolen.