4,802 views

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

Gone in 20 seconds - 3 x plasma tv screens in South Africa

submitted by mintbbb

1 decade 4 years 1 week ago

WTF

LiveLeak: Businesses and homes containing and displaying expensive plasma screen TVs are currently under attack in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. More and more of these sought-after items are being stolen and it is suspected that there is a lucrative black market for them. A business in Port Elizabeth lost three large plasma screen TV's at 03h52 in the morning.

The CCTV footage shows how quickly the brazen burglars broke down the front door and gained entry into the premises. The three men dispersed inside the building and simply pulled three plasmas from the display wall and carried them to a vehicle that was waiting in the parking area. All of this took place within 20 seconds. A case of burglary was opened with the police, who will investigate

3 Comments

I want to see them try this with a 40 inch CRT. Those things weigh a little over 300 lbs.(136 kg) each.

ant

>> ^Tymbrwulf:

I want to see them try this with a 40 inch CRT. Those things weigh a little over 300 lbs.(136 kg) each.

I still have my CRT TV from 1996.

most HDTV mounts do come with screws to tighten them down. and it's relatively cheap to replace at least one of those screws with "security screws". that would have increased the time from 20 seconds to a few minutes...if the burglars were expecting it and carrying all the right driver bits and screwdrivers.

Perhaps long enough for police to respond if they had a silent alarm system, but if they had a really loud alarm, I don't think the burglars would work through that for several minutes - they would just go on to the next target.

Discuss...

🗨️ Emojis & HTML

Enable JavaScript to submit a comment.

This website uses cookies.

This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using this website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Privacy Policy.