Acrobatic Thieves Steal 20 Laptops at Best Buy
A group of thieves broke into a New Jersey Best Buy, taking cues from Mission Impossible movies.
NJ.com reports that acrobatic thieves--consisting of at least two or three individuals--broke into a local New Jersey Best Buy and stole twenty laptops, Mission Impossible-style.
The thieves didn't touch the floor. They didn't appear in security cameras.
In fact, they silently entered the store by cutting a hole in the roof and then were silently lowered 16 feet down in an area where advertising banners obstructed the cameras' view.
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.
They then fled the scene by climbing down, gripping the 3-inch gas pipe that runs from the roof to the ground outside the store--boot-prints were found running up and down the side of the building.
Upon arrival to Best Buy at 6:30 am this morning, employees said that they discovered the hole in the ceiling and realized that 20 Apple laptops were no longer in the store.
"High level of sophistication," said Detective James Ryan, a police department spokesman. "They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out." No doubt he was scratching his head in astonishment.
Local authorities believe that this may not have been an isolated incident.
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Ewww, Apple. Maybe they meant to destroy them afterwards.
This. Is. Frucking. Epic. I hope these people are caught so I can shake their hands. Well done!
That said, shame on them for stealing! Theft sucks, whether they steal from a Best Buy, Fry's, Mircocenter, or you own house.
I vote we remotely active their webcams now please, KTHXBAI!
I can hardly be mad at them for doing it. In all honesty, the equipment and preparation for that had to exceed the $26k they stole. I'm impressed nonetheless.
wow this only seemed plausible in movies... but now in real life too
these computers have web cams, right?
all they need to do now is activate the console and type "nopoliceplease" and SAVE.
That is really impressive
I almost wish I did that for a living
how the hell did they fit into a 3 inch gas pipe?
how the hell did they fit into a 3 inch gas pipe?
magic dust
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!
any videos??? how can something this cool come without a youtube link? oh wait tea baggers may tea bag the publishers
they found my Bootprints lol ^__^
This must have been planned very well over a period of time. They would have had to have been in the store to know where the cameras are located, and their blind spots. Not to mention the quipment needed to cut the hole, and lower their buddy to fetch the goods.
Security fail, or thief win?
This must have been planned very well over a period of time. They would have had to have been in the store to know where the cameras are located, and their blind spots. Not to mention the quipment needed to cut the hole, and lower their buddy to fetch the goods.
Security fail, or thief win?
i love these people only because the method to which they did this was just amazing
Agent Smecker, I thought you were dead!
Employee: "Hey boss, wouldn't that ad banner obstruct the security camera's view?"
Manager: "Yeah, if they're Tom Cruise and come in through the roof!! Hahaha"
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!
Awesome reference. +1
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!
feet down in an area where advertising banners obstructed the cameras' view.
Reading is fun!
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
... so basically $2,600 worth of hardware
Haha
they for sure wouldn't steal PCs 
Their value goes down 30% as they leave the store
These thieves know what they are doing unlike many mindless idiots that are stealing computers and got caught.
Kudo for them.
... so basically $2,600 worth of hardware
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.
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).
wonder how long they could pull off the identical theft before someone comes up with a way to stop it?
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.
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.
I never would have guessed that they would put a picture of Tom Cruise hanging upside down .
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.
PC's unaffected....