This is the surprising second two thieves steal equipment from a truck earlier than loading it into the again of their automobile and driving off.
The two crooks could be seen finishing up the brazen theft on CCTV footage from a residential road in Bowes Park, north London, on Thursday, February 22.
One of the criminals, sporting a fluorescent vest, is noticed getting out of the passenger seat of a black Toyota Corolla and strolling over to examine the flatbed truck.
He walks across the car and the trailer connected to the again of it to examine what’s inside, earlier than noticing the heavy equipment loaded amongst the highway indicators and different items of apparatus.
The thief then heads again to the automobile to tell his confederate, who will get out and helps him raise the orange device into the again of their automobile from the trailer in broad daylight.
The two crooks could be seen finishing up the brazen theft on CCTV footage from a residential road in Bowes Park, north London
The pair are seen lifting the orange device from the trailer connected to the again of the truck
One of the criminals, sporting a fluorescent vest, is noticed getting out of the passenger seat of a black Toyota Corolla and strolling over to examine the flatbed truck, earlier than heading again to the automobile to inform his confederate what’s inside
In the one-minute and 39-second video, the pair could be seen parking their automobile on the opposite aspect of the highway to their supposed goal, earlier than they perform the heist.
Another automobile is seen driving down the highway on the finish of the video, as soon as the equipment is contained in the thieves automobile, however no different witnesses are seen all through the clip.
Locals within the space had been livid after seeing the footage, with one saying: ‘Oh, they actually thought they might simply stroll off with our instruments like that?
‘Time to step up that safety recreation.’
Resident Calvin McDonald added: ‘I’d like to get my palms on them and catch them within the act.
‘Perhaps if I used to be in a charitable temper, I’d get them to place the instruments again after which frog march them to the positioning and get them to apologise.
‘Hopefully be a lesson realized and I’d allow them to on their method with out additional motion.’
The Met Police have been approached for a remark.