A woman who stole a cigarette vending machine in Chino, Nagano Prefecture, didn’t get very far after her getaway truck skidded off the road due to heavy snow, sending the vending machine onto the pavement.
According to police, the suspect, identified as Kesami Ikegami, 34, stole the vending machine at about 4:50 a.m. last Thursday, NTV reported. The vending machine had about 10,000 in cash and 100 packs of cigarettes in it.
Police said that Ikegami unfastened the bolts that secured the vending machine to the ground. She then parked her light truck beside the machine and pushed it onto the back, NTV reported.
As she was driving away, the truck skidded off the road and got stuck in the snow and the vending machine fell off. A local resident noticed the accident and called police. When police arrived, Ikegami was still in the truck, trying to get it out of the snow, they said.
Ikegami was...