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Give em the chair.

Throw the book at them! Make them use Zunes! Stupid F*cktards.

Mar 26, 08 - 10:30 pm Comment from: Frank

Leniency please! Their childhood was wrought with the unhappiness of not owning, touching, tasting a cell phone. Their ability to discern right from wrong has been warped from such dour conditions. Mr Jobs..please!!

Sentence them to Windows 3.1 on a x286.

FItz your're funny LOL (make them use Zunes) Lol

Mar 26, 08 - 10:53 pm Comment from: Lurker_PC

Sounds like two bad apples to me.

Peace.

The iPhone: it even increases your robbin' and thievin' productivity.

"With my new iPhone I can fence stolen merchandise on eBay before security even sees me leaving the lot."

Mar 26, 08 - 10:57 pm Comment from: It's About Time

Now we're finally getting to the truth about why there's a gap between Apple's and ATT iPhone sales.

Mar 26, 08 - 11:00 pm Comment from: HotinPlaya

Hell of a profit sharing plan

wow, Apple usually tries to sweep this sort of thing under the rug. i watched someone get fired for stealing ~$60k worth of shit and all that person had to do was recover the merch and pay for what wasn't returned. i also saw someone get canned for a nifty little credit card scam she had going on and again, all apple had her do was pay them back... obviously fired as well.

so to actually have apple press charges and let this into the news is kind of a big deal... i guess maybe the difference here is it creates positive press for the iPhone? "look at how popular our awesome phone is, employees are stealing them by the crate load!!!"

nobody will ever know what apple's motives are... they're a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

Mar 26, 08 - 11:22 pm Comment from: Rip Ragged

It could be worse. They could have been selling advertising on the internet. Talk about a scam.

Mar 26, 08 - 11:23 pm Comment from: NeverFade

The thing that strikes me as ODD, is that they stole 332 iPhones from the same store! That's a lot of phones vanishing into thin air. Now, wouldn't you think after, say 10 phones went missing ( of the red hot iPhone ) you'd want to put a huge lock down of them, and keep very close inventory count on these?!

Seems like Apple cooperate kept on just shipping them phones, and these guys kept on pocketing them without a second thought.

Mar 27, 08 - 12:22 am Comment from: ron

No-one ever steals Zunes.

Mar 27, 08 - 12:23 am Comment from: Brau

"nobody will ever know what apple's motives are... they're a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."

You forgot soft, gooey, Caramel ... the kind that makes you go - MMmmm.

(now we know why iPhones are so hard to find at Apple Stores in New York these days!)

Mar 27, 08 - 01:03 am Comment from: Zach

I had to fire someone once for stealing a pack of Gummy Bears...

Personally I think it may be a PR stunt... As NeverFade said... I think they would have caught on LONG before it got to 332... and even if it started in January when they said the "investigators" where informed... I doubt it would have taken the "investigators" that long to figure out who was walking out of the store with that many iPhones.

Mar 27, 08 - 02:24 am Comment from: makemineamac

What idiots. Did they seriously think they would just be able to continue doing this forever?

And Zach, an investigation of this type, in order to lock it up nice and tight, probably needed the 3 months. Trust me, there's going to be no way out for these two. Their defense lawyers are going to likely see the evidence and resign... or say, "It's their first offense, so please be lenient, I mean come on, your honor...."

I have to say it again. Idiots!

Would anyone ever think that stealing a ZUNE might be worth jail time?

(Besides, pretty hard to fence them; who the hell would buy a ZUNE? They can't even sell them on the open market, much less the black market or ANY MARKET!!!)

Boo Yah!

Dick Smiths in NZ is now selling Apple as I said they should have a long time a go.
I think this will help grow the market share here.
Also not like they usually do, showed me all the good features about the ipod touch.

I am still hoping for a Mac OS X for PC, and I am hoping to make some software for the iphone soon, if anyone wants to help.

OK, thanks

Mar 27, 08 - 03:37 am Comment from: HolyMackerel

@Fitz "Throw the book at them! Make them use Zunes!" you should have said:

Throw the iBook at them! Make them sell Zunes!

Now that would be REAL punishment…

I can hear it now. The weeping and wailing, gnashing of teeth, as the judge passes sentence.......

I hereby sentence you to 10 years hard labour....

.... In a Windows Mobile Phone Support Centre without possibility of parole.

Mar 27, 08 - 05:34 am Comment from: OctoberMac

"...on felony theft charges of stealing $132,468 worth of the popular computer phone and reselling them on the black market..."

I like that this story finally gives the iPhone a moniker that fits --- "Computer Phone". I always thought my iPhone was much more than a "smart" phone.

But do the 332 count towards the 10 million??

::Insert "expert" panic about missing the 10 million goal by 332 iPhones here::

@ron
exactly no one would want to steal a zune

they should be forced to pay all of it back and give back whatever amount they have left. haha I agree making them work with windows mobile would be a rather good punishment to add on to the sentence. Put them on windows 95 too while your at it.

@Brau

Are you suggesting iPhones have rich, caramel centers?

Mmmmmmmm... caramel

Now they will be using CELL phones, get it?

... so who were the lucky buyers to get em at a discount?

Next thing you know they are going to give the judge some story that they did not know what they were doing because back in Kosovo they had to help Mrs. Clinton dodge sniper fire. Hence, traumatizing them for life.

Just my $0.02

Mar 27, 08 - 08:58 am Comment from: Mr. Reeee

ron…
No one ever STEALS Zunes? Nobody ever even SEES Zunes.

I take that back. I once saw a girl using a pink Zune on the subway. I felt sorry for her.

These guys stole from a New Hampshire store, eh? It's the backwater of New England guys, WHAT were you thinking! They'll get the stocks or pillory in the town square. Maybe even burnt at the stake. It is HERESY to steal from Apple.
Ooops, that's the OTHER Salem…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_by_burning

" . . . they did not know what they were doing because back in Kosovo they had to help Mrs. Clinton dodge sniper fire."

Pretty pathetic attempt at trolling, Ray.

Here's your two cents back.

Off topic, so Hillary stated that she says millions of words a day and that justifies her slip of the tongue, well that means she can say something like "let's kill social security" and that will be OK because she said million of unimportant things about something else.

Oh, and to answer the question of what happened to those iPhones, they most likely ended up in Russia.

Mar 27, 08 - 09:31 am Comment from: Cubert

Dude!!! Learn to go small!

Mar 27, 08 - 09:44 am Comment from: Cubert

@Gman,
"Sentence them to Windows 3.1 on a x286."

Too f-ing funny!!!

Cut off their hands so they will never steal again, lets send a message

Mar 27, 08 - 10:10 am Comment from: Gman

@ "GMan" -- hey bubb, there is only one Gman! and that's me..
go find yourself a different name and register it!.

They're about to get multi-touched in prison.

Mar 27, 08 - 10:22 am Comment from: G4Dualie

Their bosses aren't the brightest bulbs in the pack and should be fired immediately!

Even if these two clowns began stealing phones in the month the iPhone made its retail debut, they would have had to siphon off 50 phones each month before their bosses finally caught on!

I can understand dealing with, and stopping shrink, is problematic for any manager if you can't uncover a downward inventory trend. But come on! 50 phones a month?

It's obvious Apple has a systemic problem in their accountability procedures and this problem should have surfaced during the first quarterly-after-hours-nobody-goes-home-till-its-done-inventory.

Maroons!

@G4Dualie:
Who's calling who a maroon. Maroon? Go to work for an Apple store and at least steal yourself a new imac or Mac Pro. Come on a G4?

Mar 27, 08 - 01:40 pm Comment from: Anonymous©

Hmmm...I bought my Macbook at Rockingham. No sales tax in NH. It's full of hip-hop teens. Not my favorite store at all. It took me almost 30mins to buy a MB, as they asked me loads of questions, and tried to sell me a dotMac account, even though I already have one. I can't tell you how annoyed I got, even after I explained to them, I only wanted a MB, and nothing else, and had been buying and using Macs since 1987. But the young saleswoman, with the piercings and pink hair just get going thru her script. Annoying.

I use to catch thieves for a living in a retail setting.
It does not take 3 months to figure out who is stealing or build a rock solid case against them.
At most, it takes about 2 weeks.

Since this was the police doing the investigation-they probably allowed the theft to continue for several weeks in the hopes it would lead to something bigger(organized theft ring).

this has got to be the dumbest group of posters I've ever seen