Berlin Apple Retail Store Smashed by Car, Display Merchandise Stolen

[blackhand1001]

I like how you Americans call the Corsa a 'super-mini'. It's not a big car but its definitely not supermini. It seats four people without problems. Hehe.

Supermini is also referred to as the b-segment in europe which the corsa is part of, so yes it classifies as a supermini. Its only 159 inches long. That is very small.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opel_Corsa

 

[burne]

I'd set up a booth in a public marketplace (how about a mall) that looks legitimate, sell a few iPads at normal price for a few hours, then pack up and relocate the next day to continue selling.

Without leaving any trace leading to you? A stall in a public market needs quite a bit more than your word. Like a VAT-registration, a check of your business registration and pre-registering days before the event. (Berlin is not in the USA, business rules are different here..)

If you sell 'legitimate' iPads you are a registerend business with Apple and eminently traceable. Slipping a few stolen ones in between will cue the black helicopters from Cupertino.

 

[Osamede]

How long before we are going to see those ugly, but somewhat effective, yellow-painted concrete-filled steel cylinders flanking the entrances to high-risk Apple stores. What a way to spoil the appearance of some of these iconic, and in some cases, beautiful historic buildings. A sad commentary on our society.

I would think the sadder commentary on our society is that Apple probably pays little real tax to Germany to support the city of Berlin, pretends that all the sales in this store were made by a shell company in Ireland or Netherlands and will write off the robbery loss from what few taxes it pays there before stashing the loot away in the Cayman Islands or wherever it pretends to be based for tax-dodging reasons.

Just sayin' - antisocial behaviour and smash-and-grabs occur on all levels - let's not pretend it is only occurring with petty street criminals. "Big men" in suits are just as guilty of ruining our society with their actions, if not MORE guilty.

 

[jjhones]

Samsung is getting back at Apple

 

[JAT]

I'll do what I like!

My point is these forums are now full of angry people looking to shoot down anyone over anything when in the past it was actually a place where you could get help and even make friends. Now if you try and help people, make a joke or even spell something wrong you get abuse.

All I did was make a tongue in cheek statement (be it correct or not - as I said I wouldn't class a Corsa as a Supermini) and in about 5 minutes there were 4 responses shooting it down. Not including your second distasteful response above.

The problem with your original post was that you accused a group of people of using a term incorrectly, when most of us have never even heard that term before, let alone used it incorrectly. As a joke, it failed. Write a joke that makes sense, then maybe people will respond as if it is a joke.

 

[835153]

The problem with your original post was that you accused a group of people of using a term incorrectly, when most of us have never even heard that term before, let alone used it incorrectly. As a joke, it failed. Write a joke that makes sense, then maybe people will respond as if it is a joke.

Not to keep going on about this but the MR article and the Wikipedia article about b-segments are clearly written by Non-Europeans. Why is a supermini bigger than a mini? Im 33, I've been driving since I was 17, I have NEVER heard of a b-segment EVER. Nor has my father who has been in the auto business for 45 years. I'll leave it at that.

 

[i4m]

Yeah, good luck guys! Apple can easily locate every i-Gadget, when it goes online.

By that time, it would have already been sold to innocent deal seekers...

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Funny in this day and age to still be reading crap like, "you Americans".

Earthlings more like it...

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No. Apple won't hand you an iPhone, when you walk in and just show them a note.

They should... because they know you're not walking very far with it...
(It's like attaching a tracking device to yourself)

 

[SILen(e]

They have been arrested by police!

http://www.stern.de/panorama/blitzeinbruch-in-berliner-apple-store-aufgeklaert-2086524.html

Google translation:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stern.de%2Fpanorama%2Fblitzeinbruch-in-berliner-apple-store-aufgeklaert-2086524.html&sandbox=1

 

[simonmet]

Who doesn't reckon Apple wouldn't just brick the stolen merchandise anyway?

They won't do it for the public but I'm sure they'd do it to protect their own ****.

Even if Jailbroken I'm sure Apple has kill switches on this stuff.

 

[SILen(e]

I am sure that Apple has serial numbers and IMEIs of all the devices that are displayed in Apple Stores and they all are configured with ActivationLock and FindMyiPhone.

But:
1. Thieves are often not the most intelligent humans, so there's a good chance that they don't know that they can't sell those stolen devices.
2. All those small shops that sell or replace iPhone displays or batteries will still buy stolen iPhones, even with ActivationLock enabled.
They just need the parts - and those will still work.