{"id":204441,"date":"2018-03-18T14:58:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T04:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=204441"},"modified":"2020-08-06T10:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T00:43:08","slug":"richard-has-last-laugh-on-thieves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/03\/18\/richard-has-last-laugh-on-thieves\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Has Last Laugh On Thieves"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_204444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204444\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-204444\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Mason, right, with Darryl Weir who did some of the welding (&#8220;the good ones&#8221;) on the smoker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>March 18, 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kingaroy businessman Richard Mason has turned a negative into a positive &#8230; creating a barbecue smoker out of his former teller machine which was stolen and &#8220;smoked&#8221; by thieves last year.<\/p>\n<p>In mid-2017 thieves targeted Richard&#8217;s Kingaroy Car and Dog Wash in Rogers Drive on multiple occasions, causing tens of thousands dollars worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the items stolen was an entry teller machine which thieves ripped from the ground, risking electrocution in the process (see photos, below).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The teller was later found dumped beside a burned out, stolen Commodore near Blackbutt.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Richard retrieved the badly damaged unit, which now just a burned out metal box.<\/p>\n<p>After some welding and the addition of a chimney, the teller machine has become the Kingaroy Car and Dog Wash barbecue smoker.<\/p>\n<p>Richard put the smoker through its paces on Friday, serving up smoked pork spare ribs to invited guests at the car wash.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone gave the new device a big thumbs up!<\/p>\n<p>Richard is now the proud owner of probably the world&#8217;s most expensive smoker but he plans to put to it good use by entering the Australian Barbecue Championship which will be held in Kingaroy as part of the BaconFest festival in August.<\/p>\n<p>He also has a warning to would-be thieves. His already tight security at the business has been ramped out even further in recent months &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2018\/02\/5000-prizes-at-bbq-competition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$5000 Prizes At BBQ Competition<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2017\/08\/man-charged-over-car-wash-thefts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Man Charged Over Car Wash Thefts<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204446\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-204446\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker3.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker3-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thieves risk electrocution by wrenching the teller machine out of the ground (Photo; CCTV)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_185806\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-185806\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170718car2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-185806\" title=\"20170718 Burned box\" src=\"http:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170718car2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170718car2.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/20170718car2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-185806\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry teller unit was later found near a burnt out car near Blackbutt (Photo: Richard Mason)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204447\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204447\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-204447\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker1-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kingaroy Car And Dog Wash employee Paul Barrie with a rear view of the new smoker, clearly revealing its origins as a teller machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_204445\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-204445\" style=\"width: 740px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-204445\" src=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker4.jpg 620w, https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/20180316smoker4-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-204445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Mason, right, took the opportunity of the barbecue to show off his new double-length wash bays to South Burnett Mayor Keith Campbell &#8230; the bays can accommodate both a car and caravan under cover and include walkways to allow owners to wash the roofs of their vehicles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kingaroy businessman Richard Mason has turned a negative into a positive with his new barbecue smoker <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":204444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.11 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Richard Has Last Laugh On Thieves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kingaroy businessman Richard Mason has turned a negative into a positive ... creating a barbecue smoker 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