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Mounties are investigating the theft of a bank machine in what may be a case of life imitating art — or at least Canadian television.

Three men used a black truck and a rope to tow an ATM out of the Alberta Beach Hotel at about 1:15 a.m. on Nov. 26, RCMP said in a news release Tuesday.

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The heist was reminiscent of a scheme featured on an episode of The Trailer Park Boys, in which Ricky says: “The fastest way to get money is to steal a bank machine. It doesn’t take rocket appliances to realize all you gotta do is take a f–kin’ chain, hook it up to a truck, and yank the f–kin’ bank machine out of the store.”

The Alberta Beach suspects were between the ages of 25 and 35, and were wearing hunting jackets, RCMP said. They fled south from the hotel.

Anyone with information is asked to call Stony Plain RCMP at 780-968-7200 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or via the Internet at www.tipsubmit.com.

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