This looks like a classic case of “marah nampak”:
Four robbers who thought they had successfully pulled off an automated teller machine (ATM) heist were furious to find out the machine they had cracked open was empty … so they set it on fire.
In the incident which happened yesterday morning at a bank in Jalan Ipoh, the robbers unfortunately (for them) chose to pry open an ATM that had been malfunctioning. Due to a problem with its power supply, the bank had stopped loading the ATM unit with cash for more than week prior to the robbery.
The four suspects arrived in a black car and were fully equipped with tools for the heist. Before cracking the ATM, they had spray-painted the closed-circuit security cameras and proceeded to use a blowtorch to open the ATM’s cash compartment, The Malay Mail Online reports KL CID chief SAC Gan Kong Meng as saying.
“They spent some time cutting open the machine with the blow torch. The euphoria over their success suddenly turned to despair and anger when they found no money in the machine. So they torched it and left,” he said.
Police, however, obtained the vehicle registration number from CCTV cameras on other premises near the bank.
“We have already checked the address (from the car registration number) and based on our investigation we believe the suspects used a cloned vehicle registration number on the car.”
The registered owner of the car claimed he was at home the entire night and his car was also parked in his house.
Passersby who noticed the fire in the bank alerted the Sentul Fire and Rescue department, who immediately headed to the scene to put out the fire.
