Businesses ask for help finding stolen Coke sign and computer

GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) – Business owners in two communities are upset and frustrated after they say a man stole a vintage Coke sign outside a party store and a computer board off a self service car wash.

The computer board is worth more than $2,000. Both incidents were caught on camera, so the business owners hope the public can help identify the man and police can make an arrest.

Car wash theft occurred in the wee hours of Thursday morning at Bubbles Galore on Corunna Road in Flint Township. Surveillance video shows the man inside one of the self service car wash bays taking a sledge hammer to the computer board.

“The whole computer board was gone. It was just wires hanging,” said Melissa Conrad Crater, who owns Bubble Galore.

She believes the man was after the quarters inside the board. But he probably ended up kicking himself, because those machines are emptied twice a day and there was only $1.50 in that specific one.

“I was quite…

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