Precision thieves

I just installed Snow Leopard on my Macbook Pro. :D

The stores near where I live have kensington locks on their macbooks. I'm guessing these guys could have easily cut them, but I still think it's a good idea for a store not to make it this easy for criminals.

it is possible to respect the persons exceptional professionalism while disproving of their profession. Like train robbers of old, this group was very good and coordinated but still crooks.

Really quite a display of their craft.

Skill? Just a little coordination. The boss was smart enough to make sure everyone in the crew had seen the store, and then assign each to a different and known line.

Skill?

The stores near where I live have kensington locks on their macbooks. I'm guessing these guys could have easily cut them, but I still think it's a good idea for a store not to make it this easy for criminals.

Indeed. It at least would have slowed the thieves down...

Just breaks your heart to see an Apple store defiles (desecrated?) in such a manner. And to think they are probably pawing and groping those poor, innocent macbook pros even as I write this. I think I'm going to be sick...

Looks like they forgot the power adapters. Those things are expensive.

Ha!
H*appeh for the threadjack!
Idiot.

Happeh is gone once again. Goodbye.

And Happeh is banned once again.

I suspect that if they look at surveilance video for the past several weeks, they will find them. With so many individuals they only have to find one or two to get a line on the rest. Some of the clothing did have distinctive marks. I noticed a white spot on one pair of jeans.

Sorry, that was damn impressive and all, but I would only really get excited if it was only one guy.

I also agree with everyone above that this Apple store almost seems to be begging for a smash and grab. No security grates? No Kensington locks? Non-shatterproof glass? One security guard, most likely unarmed? Jesus, why don't you just leave the computers in a pile by the front door?

I hate the thieves .

Looks like little more than a simple pre-planned theft. Looking at what they stole - it's 4 or 5 laptops per individual, and about as many ipods. Not all that impressive?

BTW, just out of curiosity, who is H*appeh? And why does he apparently get banned often enough to make it almost rote?

Close and lock your door---at home---and google "Happeh Theory", and prepare the facepalm.

Close and lock your door---at home---and google "H*appeh Theory" (minus the star), and prepare the facepalm.

Happeh is woo incarnate.

H*ppeh is good old fashioned deranged.

The only other future for these kids was probably McDonalds. But at least the service there will be quick and coordinated which would make a nice change ;)

The stores near where I live have kensington locks on their macbooks. I'm guessing these guys could have easily cut them, but I still think it's a good idea for a store not to make it this easy for criminals.

They're all supposed to, it's corporate policy (though relatively recent). And no, they couldn't have "easily" cut them - it takes bolt cutters and a good bit of leverage. Not something you can do in less than a few seconds each, which would have given the guard time to respond. Though unless he was armed, that might not have meant much.

Happeh is the greatest wackadoodle entertainment you could ask for.

@Scott

That was actually my point. I have a kensington lock for my own Macbook Pro. The wire is very thin, and even though I haven't tried cutting it, I suspect that it wouldn't take more than one good cut with a bolt cutter. I guess it depends on how you define easily. If you have a bolt cutter it would be easy to steal a macbook. It would have made anything like this heist impossible as they would need one person to cut the locks for each person carrying laptops and much more time per macbook. They would have gotten away with far fewer, and would probably not have bothered in the first place.

Aren't all iPhones equipped with GPS positioning, making these thieves easily trackable? I know others have used this feature to catch thieves: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,544880,00.html

"Defiled"? "Desecrated"? Heh... Mac really is a cult. This should barely be local news.

I have bolt cutters. Cutting a Kensington lock would be be like cutting string with scissors.

When caught, would any of them say "mea culpa, mea culpa, mea Macs-ima culpa"?

I'm betting that anyone buying more than two MacBook power supplies at a time in the next few weeks will get just a little bit of extra scrutiny.

Kensington locks deter crimes of opportunity - which most thefts are. Not organised, serious criminals like these.

Was Tickle Me Happeh turning himself/herself in for the robberies, or for being an object of ridicule, or for something else?

None of these guys seem to be wearing gloves.

As with bank robberies, anyone can get away with it once. Maybe not Tickle Me Happeh - when TMH starts slapping TMH's legs, laughing, and falling down, it can be distracting, but eventually someone will arrest the high pitched red dude/non-dude. Maybe TMH's Mickey Rooney impression from Breakfast at Tiffany's will be TMH's undoing.

The problem for successful thieves, is stopping before being caught. That is assuming that one of them doesn't get caught doing something else and turn in the rest to get a lighter sentence. As with anti-science people, they start to believe that there is something special about them, that they cannot get caught. By the end of the month, I expect that they will be arrested. The police will go out of their way to make an example of these guys.