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Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds
theodp writes "An amazing surveillance tape of a burglary in progress at a New Jersey Apple Store shows five perps in masks smashing the plate-glass doors at 2:05 a.m., signaling to the security guard that they had a gun, and clearing off the display tables with the efficiency of a Indy 500 pit crew. The take: 23 MacBook Pros, 14 iPhones and 9 iPod touches in 31 seconds flat. Estimated value, based on average selling price: $46,345. No word yet on whether Microsoft's Laptop Hunters have alibis."
Well the made the Security Guard think they had a gun to scare him. Where they did or not would be hard to prove unless it was caught on camera.
The law often doesn't make a distinction between making your victim think you have a deadly weapon and actually possessing one.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Skips over the newscaster BLAH BLAH BLAH:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qER69SvyYV8#t=0m48s
I can't remember the last time I saw an electronics store that doesn't have a retractable security gate (bars):
http://www.securityshuttersolutions.co.uk/retractable_gates.html
That would have at least cost the thieves some time and not make it so "knife through warm butter" easy.
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Looks from the video, though, that they each traveled in a horseshoe shaped path, clearing off both sides of the tables. If you're just doing that in one pass, you're gonna miss one side of the table/half the score you would from a there and back trip.
When you refer to an individual that "perpetrated" a crime, without knowing who they are, perp[etrator] is the proper term to use. We don't suspect that these guys robbed that store - we know they did - now to find them.
However, when the cops finally pick up a person they "suspect" perpetrated the crime, they are a suspect.
The windows are supposed to break like that. The windows break into thousands of surprisingly unsharp pieces. It's for the opposite case of getting out of the store in case of emergency or just in general making breaking a window not as potentially lethal.
Remarkably simple, actually. Just needs a sharp point impact. Check out the devices sold for breaking car windows "in case your car falls into the water".
I can tell you as an Architect, the cost of replacing the window will more than outweigh the cost of the computers for Apple.
I am surprised it is legal to use plate glass in a door or street level window, it is illegal to fit in such locations here in .au.
The insertion force of a power adapter, magsafe or no, is not much compared to that of an ethernet jack, which they forcibly yanked out of place for each portable. The damage from the power connector comes when the portable falls to the ground, and impacts on the jack, forcing the DC input to come apart from the DC-in circuitry of the power stage. When you are pulling, the likelyhood of damage is minimal, since this is not really different from removing the power adapter the normal way, that is, pulling on the cord end.
This is where I get my recommended daily allowance of "Foot in Mouth."