Thieves clean out Apple Store in 31 Seconds

23 Macbooks, 14 iPhones and 9 iPods a day, keep the doctor away!

Story on mashable: http://mashable.com/2009/09/03/apple-store-robbery/

Skip to 00:54 for the actual footage.
maatcsays...

>> ^thatguyjames:
Thieves hit the store's plate glass door with a blunt object. Like pros they bring it shattering down with one strike
There are professional glass pane breakers? Time to get me a new job!


They likely used pane killers for this job.

RadHazGsays...

I wouldn't call them "pros", it doesn't take a lot of planning to say "Hey! We can break the glass, grab everything not nailed down and lets make sure to wear masks. You take the back, I'll grab the front." etc. My question is, most of the stores I've been to with laptops and such lying around like that, the laptops and the iPhones or whatnot are all attached to the table or whatever by a locking cord etc. I haven't been to many apple stores though so perhaps its just different there.

chilaxesays...

>> ^Tymbrwulf:
Assuming it's $2k for the laptops, $500 for the iPhones, and $250 for the iPods, that's $55,250.
Not bad for 31 seconds of work.


They might have spent days or more studying the patterns of the guard, casing the store to make sure things wouldn't be chained up, and planning the escape route.

If you factor in the price of the risk load they exposed themselves to, it's only a good deal if they're career criminals. 55k / 4 people... Did they have a 20% chance of spending 2 years in jail and never being able to get a good job in the future because they have a felony breaking and entering theft and significant jail time on their record?

jmdsays...

To bad the jokes on them, not one of them grabbed a power brick. Those things are expensive as hell! Not to mention they arn't exactly a commonly ordered item, so "investigating" any power brick replacement orders from this town could be likely.

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