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New York Thieves Wearing Apple Store T-Shirts Steal $16,000 In iPhones (pix11.com)
An anonymous reader quotes this article from a TV station in New York about a "brazen daylight heist" made possible by wearing the right t-shirt:
Two thieves put on Apple store employee T-shirts and headed past the Genius Bar to the repair room, grabbed what they could and walked out with more than $16,000 worth of stolen iPhones... Police said just one hour before, the same thieves may have stolen three iPhones 6's worth $1,900 from the Apple Store on 14th Street and Ninth Avenue in the West Village... Earlier this year, three thieves pulled off two similar, but much more lucrative heists, at the Upper West Side Apple Store at Broadway and 67th Street, a training center for Apple employees. Once again, they dressed as Apple employees and stole a total of $49,000 worth of iPhones.
Sorry, but until you sell something, your loss is just what you invested. Else I claim that the hardware I slapped together costs 10 grand (despite costing 5 bucks to make) and my insurance claim is for 10 grand.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
More importantly: does any of that matter?
Chances are these guys will pawn them or sell them on the street. If they had half a brain they would never use them and once the money has changed hands they don't have to worry about whether they have been blacklisted or not.