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Hundreds of iPhone 5 Units Stolen on Eve of Launch
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Samsung just got it's next advertising idea!
Buy our phones because no one will steal them on launch day.
Or just.... no one will steal them
Why are you calling someone else a dumba$$ when your spelling is like one?
The plural of thief is thieves, not thief's.
Mine was stolen too.
Unrelated to the story, I had my iPhone 5 stolen today.
Was sitting in Starbucks with the phone on the table.
Was suddenly approached by a three of Romanian Gypsies, two men and a woman who waved newspapers at me. I told them to leave, they did. And the phone was missing.
I ran outside, and confronted the woman who just handed the phone back.
Then used the phone to take her picture.
Unrelated to the story, I had my iPhone 5 stolen today.
Was sitting in Starbucks with the phone on the table.
Was suddenly approached by a three of Romanian Gypsies, two men and a woman who waved newspapers at me. I told them to leave, they did. And the phone was missing.
I ran outside, and confronted the woman who just handed the phone back.
Then used the phone to take her picture.
Go back to Pakistan with the loot. The Britts may have planted chips to trace more Bin Laden's in Pakistan using the find my iphone App
Unrelated to the story, I had my iPhone 5 stolen today.
Was sitting in Starbucks with the phone on the table.
Was suddenly approached by a three of Romanian Gypsies, two men and a woman who waved newspapers at me. I told them to leave, they did. And the phone was missing.
I ran outside, and confronted the woman who just handed the phone back.
Then used the phone to take her picture.
Wow, glad you had a happy ending!
Apple might not but the carriers could block them. Apple can report them the Europe carriers would would then block them there (they already block stolen phones from networks), and then also the US carriers (we just started our stolen phone program here to prevent activations).
Did it take some stolen iPhones to get you to realise this? So many worse things happen in the world, and it goes a lot deeper than simply having 'no respect'.
yeah.....right and and i just won the lotto......Unrelated to the story, I had my iPhone 5 stolen today.
Was sitting in Starbucks with the phone on the table.
Was suddenly approached by a three of Romanian Gypsies, two men and a woman who waved newspapers at me. I told them to leave, they did. And the phone was missing.
I ran outside, and confronted the woman who just handed the phone back.
Then used the phone to take her picture.
I'm surprised something like this hasn't happened before. But a few hundred out of millions is really nothing. They probably lose more from shipping damage.
***** gets stolen. Not good, but big deal.
My comments are in the context of this story alone. Not a broader "criminal life in general" context.
Well, he wouldn't be using those 250 phones himself, he would be selling them. If the phone is then deactivated, not his problem.
Unrelated to the story, I had my iPhone 5 stolen today.
Was sitting in Starbucks with the phone on the table.
Was suddenly approached by a three of Romanian Gypsies, two men and a woman who waved newspapers at me. I told them to leave, they did. And the phone was missing.
I ran outside, and confronted the woman who just handed the phone back.
Then used the phone to take her picture.
Lost an iphone 4 in Berlin this way.