Jobs' Burglary Manhunt Yields Kenny the Clown

theodp writes "Even in death, Steve Jobs managed to get specialists from the Apple-friendly Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team (REACT) to team up again with Apple investigators and local police to track down the whereabouts of a stolen Apple device. Unlike a 2010 stolen iPhone prototype incident, which ended with a raid on a Gizmodo editor's home, this new investigation into the $60K burglary of the late Apple CEO's under-renovation Palo Alto home ended with the recapture of an iPad from Kenny the Clown, who accepted the device as payment of a debt owed to him by burglary suspect Kariem McFarlin. PCWorld has the details of how Palo Alto Police, REACT, and Apple investigators connected the dots to track down Jobs' stolen iPads, which may trouble some privacy advocates."

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Clowns have always creeped me out.

[2.7182]

Not sure why, but I've always felt that way. Maybe it has to do with when I was 5 and my father was killed by a clown.

Re:burglar robs lots of homes, police catch him

[M1FCJ]

When you look at the typical response the police gives to a typical house/office break for the rest of us (a shrug and you never hear from the pigs ever again), this only shows how corrupt the US police are and what lengths they will go to keep their masters happy.

The Burglar is a Complete Idiot

[guttentag]

Aside from the issue of allowing the iPad to connect to Apple's servers to wipe and reinstall the OS, he should have realized that the real value of an iPad or Mac from Jobs's home would have been the content of the device. If it turned out to be Jobs's personal device (as opposed to his family's), who knows what might have been on it... design plans for rounded hexagons, or seamless rounded translucent-aluminum dodecahedrons? His family, and the world, may have lost this brilliance forever... like burning Leonardo's notebooks for firewood. I hope they throw the MacBook at this barbarian.