Acrobatic Thieves Steal 20 Laptops at Best Buy

[adamlee21]

If i remembered right, there was a similar incident happened near my place about 4/5 years ago (in Vancouver, Canada) ....Yes I'm serious~! there was a goddamn HOLE on the roof of FutureShop (now becomes Bestbuy)and laptops were stolen

 

[cruiseoveride]

$26,000 USD worth of Apple notebooks

... so basically $2,600 worth of hardware

 

[Euphoria_MK]

Haha they for sure wouldn't steal PCs Their value goes down 30% as they leave the store

 

[gekko668]

These thieves know what they are doing unlike many mindless idiots that are stealing computers and got caught.

Kudo for them.

 

[kravmaga]

[citation][nom]cruiseoveride[/nom]... so basically $2,600 worth of hardware[/citation]

But a million bucks worth or smug!
In fact, were the police equipped with a smug-detector, they could have apprehended the thieves by simply following the MASSIVE spike in the readings.

 

[Guest]

i would love to see how someone "rappels out". That is pretty much an oxymoron unless you are rappelling out and down. The high-tech angle also seem media-hype to me. saws-all cuts hole, anchor ropes, rapel to top of shelf-rack and start sending up the booty, then ascend using either 1) a set of gibbs, 2) a 12-volt winch, 3) some buddies on steroids who don't mind hefting your 140 pounds 30 feet back to the hole. This is NOT "mission" anything in my book. give me and a few fairly rope-Able friends a couple beers and we'd come up the same plan. Their main reason for success was scoping out security beforehand (poss'by with inside help).

 

[victomofreality]

wonder how long they could pull off the identical theft before someone comes up with a way to stop it?

 

[scurbox]

Makes you wonder if it was an inside job. What if they did it thinking insurance would cover it if they made it look legit. Probably had a set path for the people that worked there and never turned on the motion detectors, then just sent a small strong guy up the wall grabing the pipe and cut a hole to make it look legit. But maybe I'm over thinking this.

But it's still pretty clever either way.

 

[Guest]

At a Las Vegas Best Buy 5-6 years ago people pulled off the same heist except it wasn't Apple Laptops those weren't sold here yet in Best Buys. Only difference was the camera did see them. Just not good enough for them to be identified. You would think Best Buy would have done more nationwide to prevent the same thing from happening again.

 

[Dawgsoverrebs]

I never would have guessed that they would put a picture of Tom Cruise hanging upside down .

 

[mr_tuel]

I wonder if the laptops were locked in "shark-cages" as they are at the BB I work at? Either way, bolt cutters would have taken care of padlocks.

 

[mj4358]

PC's unaffected....

 

[mj4358]

Funny, why didn't they steal the superior Windows PC's ???????

 

[Hatchet]

employees just took the gear out the back and cut a hole in the ceiling to make it look like a heist, durrr

 

[rpmrush]

LOL at the basically $2600 in hardware. So true. Apple is lame!

 

[leo2kp]

[citation][nom]cantstanzya[/nom]Television. Television is the explanation for this - you see this in bad television. Little assault guys creeping through the vents, coming in through the ceiling - that James Bond shit never happens in real life! Professionals don't do that![/citation]

One of my favorite movies.

 

[blackened144]

The thieves quickly grabbed $26,000 USD worth of Apple notebooks off 10-foot-tall racks and were quickly pulled back up to the roof undetected.

So, they stole 3 MacBooks?

 

[bin1127]

[citation][nom]blackened144[/nom]So, they stole 3 MacBooks?[/citation]

just 1, plus the charger. and it was already on sale.

 

[dextermat]

lol'

if they stole something at Bestbuy : it's probably crap. (especially laptops)

They actually did a good favor for them 😛

 

[Computer_Lots]

Had to be an inside job. They knew where all the cameras where and exactly where to cut the hole to get what they were after.