“More details surround the recent burglary at the home of Steve Jobs have surfaced in a police report, revealing that the suspect also managed to swipe the late Apple co-founder’s car keys and wallet — which contained just $1 — along with several Apple devices that quickly gave away his location once they were powered on and connected to the company’s servers,” Katie Marsal reports for AppleInsider.
“Kariem McFarlin, a 35-year-old Alemeda, Calif., confessed that his crime was one of desperation, explaining that he’d been living out of his car. He told police that when he saw Jobs’ home at 2101 Waverly Street in Palo Alto, Calif. was under construction, he immediately seized the opportunity,” Marsal reports. “McFarlin, then wearing white gloves, proceeded to turn over the home under the cover of darkness, stealing two iMacs, three iPads, three iPods, an Apple TV, and more than $60,000 in fine jewelry. No alarm sounded and no lights turned on throughout the duration of the burglary.”
Marsal reports, “Of the fine jewels McFarlin stole and later shipped to an out-of-state dealer, a $30,000 Tiffany & Co. platinum and aquamarine necklace with three strands of aquamarine beads was his biggest score. He also made off a $2,950 pair of Tiffany platinum, diamond and aquamarine lace-drop earrings, as well as a $28,5000 Tiffany platinum, diamond and aquamarine crochet necklace bezel set with two hundred and forty seven round brilliant cut diamonds weighing approximately five-carats total weight.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You see, because when you’re living out of your car, it’s the fault of other people. That is why you get to break into their homes and take their things. It’s also why, when you’re oh-so “desperate” and just want something to eat, you steal over $60,000 in Tiffany jewelry, two iMacs, three iPads, three iPods, and an Apple TV; sandwich prices being so out-of-control and all.
Jim Carrey also lived in a car for a time. Mr. Carrey didn’t break into people’s homes, steal their property, and get arrested. Instead, he wrote himself a check for $10 million dollars post-dated 10 years in the future and got to work making sure he’d be able to cover it.
Jim Carrey’s net worth is currently over $150 million.
Kariem McFarlin awaits sentencing.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Related article:
Steve Jobs’ Palo Alto home burglarized; More than $60,000 worth of ‘computers and personal items’ stolen – August 14, 2012
Let’s hope the judge or the prosecutor reads or is read MDN’s take above and doesn’t fall for McFarlin’s “woe is me” bullshit.
People have choices. When they decide to make the wrong choice, they need to face the consequences. This is what taking responsibility actually means, not saying “I’m sorry, I was desperate” after the fact in order to get a lenient sentence.
Look on the bright side, McFarlin, you’ll have three squares, a roof over your head, and cable TV all provided by California’s dwindling number of producers who are being raped by interest groups attached like leeches to liberal California politicians who’ve ruined a once-great state by overspending on a never-ending stream of fucking bullshit boondoggles.
… mistaken an explanation for an excuse. Or maybe not. We agree that this guy has no good excuse for his behavior. And he didn’t try the lame “the stuff was just laying there”. Were this material protected by a patent, Mrs Jobs would have no case as she failed to protect it!
No … he was explaining the motive behind his behavior. This may, possibly, sway the judge towards a more lenient sentence – less than the maximum, perhaps – but that is merely part of the benefit of a guilty plea over an expensive trial. And, explaining your motive is part of that process.
A) It is NOT “woe is me” bullshit
B) It saves the state money in avoiding both trial and appeals.
Failed to Protect it??
That’s as lame as the supreme court in Italy ruling that a girl cannot be raped if she is wearing blue jeans.
You, sir, are a retarded clown.
… language? No … forget that jibe. It’s more likely you are not well enough acquainted with the silly rules regarding protecting patents. No, maybe it IS your failure to understand simple English.
Wabash … why are you saying these things as a reply to my posting? Did I in any way suggest I disagreed with anything you said? No. I said he needed to explain his motives in accordance with a plea bargain, a guilty plea. Nothing said about “poor bugger” or “stupid clod”.
+1
The guy was not acting out of desperation. He had a car and gas for the car. He made it across the Bay so he had to thinkabout bridge tolls. He decided that he venture out of blue collar Alameda and head to one of the richest counties in the USA. He appears to have picked through the loot carefully. He then sold to an out of state dealer instead of his local fence or pawnshop. Signs of an experienced burglar if not a pro.
Kariem McFarlin knows all about Steve Jobs. He checked his browser history!
Before taking up burglary, McFarlin was a sales rep for a medical equipment company.
Right, the sales guy. Case closed.
Don’t be a douche.
Bigotry toward a profession is just like any other bigotry.
In every industry, there are people who can be considered as “good” and “bad.”
Actually, it was nothing of the kind.
It was a joke, based on what I thought was a well known quote from Steve Jobs, referring to Ballmer.
..and not a bad joke, too. Well I got it.
Getting it doesn’t mean it was a good joke. : )
The good news for Mr. McFarlin is that for the next seven years, he does not need to sleep in his car.
He took Steve’s Job’s wallet containing his entire annual salary.
I’m a bit disappointed he was caught so quickly. I would have loved to see how high the ebay auction for Steve’s ID went before it all came crashing down on this idiot.
His anual salary was in his wallet
And it might have been a dollar more than the thief had earned honestly in the last year.
Yeah, but Jim Carrey is a white guy, right?
Yep. Mitt Romney wasn’t trying to put Jim Carrey back in chains, y’all.
Here’s a PERFECT illustration of Dem/Lib/Prog hypocrisy:
They call Dan Quayle and Sarah Palin “stupid,” then they offer this retard with hairplugs :
Biden: ‘Folks, Where’s it Written We Cannot Lead the World in the 20th Century in Making Automobiles?
The Romney-Ryan campaign response was instantaneous:
“Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will ensure America leads the world in the 21st century by strengthening middle-class families and creating jobs. President Obama and Vice President Biden have taken our nation backward with failed policies that have resulted in higher unemployment, more debt, and a weaker economy. A campaign based on rage and divisiveness can’t hide the president’s failed record.”
You actually believe Biden is stupid, and the others not? You must be stupider than the whole lot of them!
The hair restoration doc drilled a little too deep when planting ol’ Joe’s hair plugs. His melon is so empty, even they couldn’t survive.
Yet, Sarah Palin is “stupid,” even though everything that she predicted would happen with Obama has happened.
http://landing.newsinc.com/shared/video.html?freewheel=69016&sitesection=breitbartprivate&VID=23623466
I don’t know about the comparison on the MDN take on this story (no pun intended). Taking a dead legend’s personal effects vs. making ‘Me, Myself and Irene’….I’m not sure which one is the bigger crime.
Agreed!!
Worst movie I ever saw!
Why can’t you idiots just give us the stupid news and keep your 3rd grade analysis for milk and cookie time after you take your naps under the classroom table. You are nowhere near as smart as you think you are though you still might be orders of magnitude smarter than Romney and Ryan, or Tonto, or whatever his name is.
People like you are part of the problem, not the solution.
If the world had even just half of MDN’s common sense, it’d be a paradise.
If MDN are idiots, you’re brain dead.
Hey Einstein; MDN was smart enough to get you to click on his page a few times. I’m sure they appreciate the milk & cookie money…
Agreed. These are not people I’d want to spend any time with.
I personally don’t read the MDN take, unless a lot of the members make mention of it in the comment feed. It’s not like they get in the way of reading the article. The choice is yours. They are pretty clearly identified.
You are missing one of the very best parts of the site. Your loss.
I prefer the spontaneity of the member replies. I’ll read MDN takes if it’s worth mentioning, but to me the comments seem too thought out and biased.
Perhaps if MDN were to add a bit of a personal touch to the comments by posting the MDN author, I’d get a bit more enjoyment from reading them. Just like the forum posts, it’s more enjoyable, if you can relate the comment to the author.
It’s the MacDailyNews Take.
What do you want, for them to make up a pen name? That will help you to “relate?” Nonsense.
When you read magazines, newspapers or watch the news, there is a reason they give their names. If I need to explain why, there’s not much sense in doing so.
Over half of them use a nom de plume, a pen name.
Feel better now?
uh Bill, a rose by any other name is still a rose.
If it were mere desperation, how is it he seems like a pro, wearing gloves and access to the fence network, which always ships valuables out of state?
Thugging sh*t is a hard life. Even the Pros are desperate for the next score! Lol
Maybe Samsung sent him, to find out what’s in the pipeline!
If rich and greedy people like Mr. Carrey paid their fair share we wouldn’t have folks like Mr. McFarlin. 😉
Nice theory…but NO!
There are always going to be people who just don’t want to earn their way. No body is entitled to anything without hard work. The world doesn’t owe you shit!
Just kidding of course. There are folks who believe that sort of stuff though.
If RoRy are elected I hope it comes back to bust your teabags you friggin brain dead tepublicans hollier than though. Can’t wait for life to stick it up your ass and that you beg for help.
aptly named.
He just tried to speed up Obama’s “spread-the-wealth-around” policy…… that’s all. You see, it’s not fair that Jobs had all this stuff that he worked his whole life for and Kariem didn’t.
Moral of story: don’t f@ck with Steve Jobs
Even posthumously.
Best comment here.
Good job!
Good summary, very well stated MDN!
While the people who comment on here probably do not reflect the wider US population: being probably younger and more affluent than the average, you do get a sense of the values of modern America. Selfish, rather than generous; hateful rather than loving; ignorant rathet than informed; intolerant rather than empathetic; cruel rather than kind. These are the values of darkness, along with dishonesty, irresponsibility, narrow-mindedness, laziness, greed and so on… For many Americans, The American Dream is a nightmare – a never-ending nightmare. With so many jobs exported to China and elsewhere, and the pressure from business to drive wages ever lower, many Americans must feel that they have no stake in the future of the nation. It might be convenient for those on the right to hope that the unuseful will simply crawl into a corner and die, but history suggests otherwise.
While millions, perhaps most, Americans are considered unuseful by the corporate powers and capital gamblers, certainly the reverse is also true. History would suggest the side that outnumbers the other usually wins in the end, and the meaning of the term “unuseful” (I prefer “useless”) quickly sorts itself out.
Love the Mac daily take on this!!!
If only he could have got a job at the apple factory in the US to avoid having to turn to crime
Ok, have to admit that I surprised at MDNs take on this. Living in Europe it is easy to forget that there are so many poor people in the states.
The total lack of acknowledging that the system might be part to blame for creating modern day “grave robbers” like this just seems to show how well the American dream propaganda works.
Maybe you should be less critical of a desperate person (however distasteful this particular crime is) and look at a government who still manage to keep the rich richer at the expense of so many in poverty.
Just my 2 cents.
“Living in Europe it is easy to forget that there are so many poor people in the states.”…good to know that no one is broke in Greece.
Steve’s wallet???!! 🙁 that’s sort of horrible
I am disappointed at MDNs take on this. Living in Europe it is easy to forget how many poor American citizens there are.
Instead of looking so hard at condemning a desperate persons actions (however distasteful they might be), maybe looking at a system that actively is working to make the rich richer at the expense of the less fortunate/educated would be suitable.
You are living in a society that creates modern day “grave-robbbers” and instead of showing any empathy for the reasons leading up to his actions, you use the heavily propagated “American Dream” as a reason to justify that this guy should get 7 years prison.
I thought MDN’s was more open minded and thinking more “different” than that.
Just my 2 cents form across the pond.
Waverley Street, not Waverly. Waverly Street, Palo Alto, looks like an area where the rest of us would live.