📺 WATCH: Brazen thieves use backhoe to SMASH into store try to rip away ATM [VIDEO]

REPORT: Would-be thieves used a backhoe to bust through the front of an Oakland, California store, causing some $70,000 of damage in a failed attempt to steal an ATM.

Surveillance video shows the backhoe crashing through the bulletproof glass of the ampm store in West Oakland on Monday morning. A store clerk had to jump out of the way as the backhoe began cracking through the glass just inches from his face.