“Three Detroit-area teenagers have been charged with selling fake new Apple iPhones to a local business that were made of Play-Doh modeling compound, police said on Tuesday,” Serena Maria Daniels reports for Reuters.
“The three male teenagers, plus a fourth who has not been charged but remains under investigation, on Thursday sold a Metro PCS store owner in Auburn Hills, outside Detroit, what appeared to be brand new iPhones still in the box and sealed with factory plastic, the Auburn Hills Police Department said,” Daniels reports. “When the owner opened the box, however, they were filled instead with Play-Doh bricks.”
“Police said the store owner called the teens back and arranged a second sale, and then contacted police,” Daniels reports. “The four men returned to the store on Saturday with ‘more phones,’ but fled before the deal was closed, police said. They were located and arrested shortly after that.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Why was the MetroPCS store owner buying wrapped “iPhones” from some teenagers off the street?
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Play-Doh. Isn’t that the name of the next Android OS?
Metro PCS Where people with bad credit go to buy no-contract sing-sang-sung
They fell off the back of someone’s truck! LOL
It probably was cheaper buying from the teens than getting it from China! Good Ole American Capitalism
re the MDN take: Presumably because he assumed they were stolen phones that he could buy cheap. And since he appears to be very willing to deal in stolen property, perhaps the police should do some additional investigating in his store while they’re there.
The boxes weren’t the only thing full of play-doh.
Yes, but was it REAL Play-Doh or a cheep rip-off brand?
I think Play-Doh artists at Samsung are now busy behind close doors innovating a new smartphone.
Samsung can just use Silly Putty to clone the next iPhone
good for them!