“A crew of burglars got into an Apple store in Woodcliff Lake [Apple Store, Tice’s Corner, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey] by carefully cutting through walls with various tools, then spent several hours gathering up loot before an alarm finally sounded, police said this morning,” Michael J. Feeney reports for The Record.
“‘This was obviously not a smash and grab,’ Police Chief Anthony Jannicelli said. ‘It was coordinated,'” Feeney reports.
“However, police quickly nabbed three men whom they charged with burglary and other charges. A fourth remains at large,” Feeney reports.
“Woodcliff Lake officers responding to an alarm around 3 a.m. yesterday found pry bars, sledgehammers, saws and crowbars that Jannicelli said were used to but through several layers of drywall of what once was a furniture store entered the strip mall at Tice’s Corner on Chestnut Ridge Road, the chief said. The crew had entered the store through the back of a cabinet, he said,” Feeney reports. “Merchandise was found at the scene ‘packed in duffle bags and ready to go,’ said Jannicelli.”
Full article here.
Crooks are crooks for a reason. They’re not smart enough to do anything else.
Anyone ever broken into a store to steal Zunes or copies of Vista? I didn’t think so.
As expensive as Macs are, that’s the only way most people can get them.
OH!
Apple will have to add titanium sheeting on common walls at strip mall stores. Actually this is pretty funny. This kind of caper used to be reserved for jewelry stores and banks. Pretty prestigious story for Apple.
Crooks that are caught are crooks for a reason. There are some smart ones that do not get caught. But there are some painfully dumb ones too… and they bring to you the headline news.
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The Dude abides.
Brad did it!
This doesn’t sound like a “carefully planned” crime to me. Sounds pretty low tech and they certainly didn’t have a carefully planned escape had set off the alarm.
“Anyone ever broken into a store to steal Zunes or copies of Vista?”
Only to return them in disgust and fear of ridicule.
“However, police quickly nabbed three men whom they charged with burglary and other charges. A fourth remains at large,” Feeney reports.
Any truth in the rumour that the fourth burglar was a large, sweaty, bald-headed man who avoided capture by throwing chairs at the chasing police?
R2 STATED:
As expensive as Macs are, that’s the only way most people can get them.
RESPONCE TO COMMENT FROM R2:
Let’s examine your illogical assertion.
1. You imply that Macs are overpriced.
A “free market based price” price is the maximum most people are willing to pay. Based on Apple’s rapidly growing market share, their pricing is spot on. Were it up to you, I suspect you’d either have the feds force Apple to lower its prices or start a new government bureaucracy to subsidize the purchase of Macs.
2. You claim that the only way “most people can get them” is to STEAL them.
If the MAJORITY of Apple merchandise were being stolen, no retailer in their right mind could justify putting such “thief magnets” on their shelves.
So in the final analysis you’re either being sarcastic of stupid.
R2 STATED:
As expensive as Macs are, that’s the only way most people can get them.
RESPONCE TO COMMENT FROM R2:
Let’s examine your illogical assertion.
1. You imply that Macs are overpriced.
A “free market based price” price is the maximum most people are willing to pay. Based on Apple’s rapidly growing market share, their pricing is spot on. Were it up to you, I suspect you’d either have the feds force Apple to lower its prices or start a new government bureaucracy to subsidize the purchase of Macs.
2. You claim that the only way “most people can get them” is to STEAL them.
If the MAJORITY of Apple merchandise were being stolen, no retailer in their right mind could justify putting such “thief magnets” on their shelves.
So in the final analysis you’re either being sarcastic or stupid.
Rumor has it that is was Ballmer’s kids . . .
At least these crooks had good taste in products! And bought them knowing they could resell them fast.
So, there you have it … Apple gets the crooks vote!
@WhozeYour…
Nice reply. Often opinions are emotionally based with no factual basis. It only takes a clear examination of the lack of facts behind the opinion to break down the thought.
To take it further would be to question which Macs are too expensive and for whom they are too expensive. Generalizations tend to crumble in the face of investigation.
Reminds me of that old Apple Mac commercial where the first G4 tower was surrounded by tanks cause the govt said that they were super computers but pc’s did not need protecting.
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Rimm Blackberrys do not need protecting cause they ain’t worth it.
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Just a thought.
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Nice retort, but you could have done without the strawman in your first analysis. It only makes you look dumb. “…their pricing is spot on.” is where you should have stopped, but then you set up the strawman, which totally undermined the point you were trying to make. Disappointing.
The smart crooks you never hear of because it doesn’t look like a crime.
They’re called Lawyers.
Or Presidents
@Think
My mistake. You said … “it doesn’t look like a crime.”
Oops.
“A fourth is still at large”
Damn that Ballmer! He’s after Apple’s secrets again!
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“Damn that Ballmer! He’s after Apple’s secrets again!”
Ballmer, the other Hamburglar.
Clearly the iPhone 3G advert with the security guards and the safe was taken too seriously as a challenge by some (PC-brained) nitwits!
Some guys saw “The Bank Job” w/ Jason Statham and got cocky.
Whozeyourdaddy…
I’ve been a mac user since 1989, so don’t even try to pull the: you’re a pc user spewing bs… stuff
Apple is a part of a duopoly. They, along with M$ control the entire OS market and therefore they have price setting power. In a free market, companies make no profit. In a monopoly/duopoly they lower the supply, jack up the price and maximize profit. Learn your economics before trying to show someone up next time.
“In a free market, companies make no profit.”
As someone who owns a business, this is one of the most absurd things about economics that I’ve ever read. I’m not in business to provide anything to anyone for nothing.
This ridiculous assertion of making no profit negates the whole point of a free market. Which is to make money.
Talk about learning economics