Thieves used a stolen forklift to steal an automatic teller machine, containing about USD50,000, from a bank in Joliet, Illinois, police said.

Police said the ATM was ripped from a wall at Joliet's Numark Credit Union branch on November 17. The thieves stole the forklift and the truck it was loaded onto from a landscaping business across the street, a Chicago Tribune report said.

An alarm went off immediately, but the truck was gone when police arrived. Police later found the ATM and the truck in a parking lot some distance from the bank.

There have been no arrests.