“An Apple Retail Store located in Kurfürstendamm, Berlin was the site of a smash-and-grab robbery earlier this morning, reports Bild.de [Google Translate]. At 4:15 AM, thieves reportedly crashed an Opel Corsa supermini automobile into the store and proceeded to steal display iPhones, iPads, and computers before fleeing in two Audis,” Richard Padilla reports for MacRumors.
“The smash-and-grab robbery on the Kurfürstendamm Apple Store is also similar to the robbery that took place at Apple’s Promenade Temecula retail store in Temecula, California last year, where robbers also used a car to obliterate the entire front glass and security grating of the store before making off with merchandise,” Padilla reports. “It is likely that the Kurfürstendamm store will close for cleanup and repair for a short while before opening to the public again.”
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[Attribution: Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “g.rogall” for the heads up.]
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And at the Microsoft store … nothing happened.
There was a reverse robbery where thieves dropped off some worthless Surfaces for recycling.
And that was during business hours!
BREAKING NEWS: “A Microsoft store was smashed with a car today. $10,000 worth of computers were returned.”
Microsoft runs the only store in town where security guards simply aren’t needed. They even leave the doors unlocked at night hoping someone might take a few pallets of surface RT’s.
…to be subsequently counted as sales.