“The victim, who was not identified by police, said two men approached him at about 1 a.m. near the intersection of Amberson Avenue and Amberson Place. He told police the men demanded his wallet and asked for his PIN number for his credit cards; one of the men also showed what appeared to be a handgun,” Riely reports.
“The man told police he turned over his wallet, his PIN number and his iPhone before running away toward Ellsworth Avenue,” Riely reports. “Officers arrived while he was contacting his bank to cancel his cards.”
Riely reports, “The man later used his computer [via Apple’s MobileMe’s “Find My iPhone” fetaure] to track the location of his iPhone to a Wal-Mart in North Versailles, where police said the suspects purchased items with his stolen credit card before moving on to an Eat’n Park restaurant on Route 30.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: It figures that the idiots went straight to Wal-Mart with their stolen credit card. They probably tried to buy… sorry, we’re trying not to laugh too hard… the “best television in the place” before hitting what certainly sounds like a Michelin 3-star establishment if we’ve ever heard one. Bwahahaha!
Town by the name of Shadyside.
Eat’n Park restaurant on Route 30.
Sounds hillbilly to me.
Robbed a guy for his wallet then immediately went to an Eat’n Park… Did Microsoft cancel Ballmer’s company card again???
HeavyD. Elitist snob! They didn’t know any better. Blame the education establishment.
You know, before you guys exercise your supercilious ‘tude you might want to make use of those wonderful skills you acquired from the educational establishment. Shadyside is actually a fairly tony neighborhood in Pittsburgh – where, I’m sure, Macs & iPhones are very popular. You’re embarrassing yourselves.
There is a moral to this story,
“Criminals are stupid.”
This is a stickup!
Gimmie your money, wallet and watch.
You can keep that friggin’ iPhone.
I would have just made up some 4 digit PIN it’s not like they will come back to beat me for giving them a PIN that does not work. Plus they would not have been able to use my card with a pic on it.
Let this be a lesson to everyone! If you get robbed (and have MobileMe) make sure they take your iPhone as well – it’s like putting a tracker in the loot.
Of course, once they start hearing stories like this from their convicted buddies, it won’t be as successful, but there’s probably still a year or two to take advantage of it.
On a side note, now that we can track our own stolen goods, maybe we’ll see an increase in baseball bat justice.
MDN Magic Word – GETTING even.
Bokweb is correct, Shadyside is an upscale neighborhood in Pittsburgh. I don’t think its possible to drive through without seeing the white Apple headphones.
@Bokweb & Rob
Agree with both of you. Born and raised in the area and it is indeed a very posh little town. My current MacBook & iMac were purchased at the Apple store on Walnut St.
Say what you want about WalMart but lay off Eat’n Park.
Your just lookin’ for trouble when you take a walk on the Shadyside.
But did he get his iPhone back? I don’t see any mention of it in the article.
MDN:
After eating, this is the next place they were going in Shadyside.
I hope they got their “smile” cookies before they got busted. There were probably a couple of cops already at the Eat ‘n Park.
@Rob:
I agree about Eat ‘n Park – “Home of the Big Boy.” They’ve been around for 45 or 50 years for good reason: best burger you’re likely to find at any fast-food joint.
I’m a long-time Apple supporter, but I am tired of the the elitist attitude of some of the MDN takes. These criminals left themselves open to ridicule, and most of the pundits and analysts appear to thrive on it (any attention is better than no attention?). But please refrain from denigrating a socioeconomic group to try to make a point. Besides being unfair, it is also detrimental to Apple and to the Mac community, as a whole. I welcome any person of good character who has a desire to become a Mac user.
Shouldn’t it be Park n’ Eat? How many car accidents are there at this place?
“My PIN number? Ummm, yeah, here it is.”
Are these muggers really that stupid?
@ Grrrilla,
Don’t take a baseball bat to a gun fight.
Just sayin’.
iPhone + free red cape!
just my $0.02
@KingMel:
I generally share your sentiments, but in fairness I wouldn’t read anything more into MDN’s take than finding some Apple-related humor in another episode of stupid criminal tricks. I’m sure the reaction would’ve been the same if the mug shots were of white thugs. And I would hope that MDN, at least, knows that Pittsburgh, being home to Carnegie Mellon, isn’t a hillbilly town. (They might even know that Pgh. is nationally known as a bio-tech center, and that employment in higher education is greater than in basic industry.)
“Criminals are stupid.”
Right. Like John D. Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger and Dick Cheney.
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Be careful. Sometimes they bring you along to use the pin.
@Big Als MBP I read it was a pellet gun. Lol