iPad Thieves Target NYC Apple Store
The iPad is one of the hottest gadgets around, but is your iPad hot?
Apple this week announced that it has sold three million iPads since the device first launched. However, it seems there are a few iPads unaccounted for as thieves are targeting one New York Apple store and stealing the tablets right off the delivery truck. Things have gotten so bad that even store employees aren't allowed to know delivery times anymore.
The New York Post reports that the Apple store on the Upper West Side has had thieves pilfer iPads from delivery trucks on at least two occasions last week. The first instance occurred last Tuesday at about 10 in the morning while the delivery driver was stacking boxes outside his truck. A thief, described as being hispanic, grabbed a box of five iPads and made off down 67th street.
Two days later, two more men pulled something similar in front of the very same store. According to police, the UPS driver was putting boxes on a handtruck when someone asked him for directions. While he was distracted, the second man grabbed a box of five iPads and made off on foot, heading south on Broadway. The UPS driver said the second man was Hispanic, measured about 5-foot-10 and weighed roughly 175 pounds.
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Hispanic iPad thieves? There's an app for that!
No Jose, those aren't taco's. You can't feed your 6 anchor babies with those. Put them back.
No Jose, those aren't taco's. You can't feed your 6 anchor babies with those. Put them back.
LOLOL
No Jose, those aren't taco's. You can't feed your 6 anchor babies with those. Put them back.
He is an entrepreneur. If he sells 5 ipads for $10 dollars apiece then he can feed all six babies tacos.
Thugs stealing the magic.
wow. payne4evr. **** you, you insensible racist piece of ****. i'm hispanic. does that automatically make me a thief? i think not. the federal government does not either, given that they've seen fit to grant me a security clearance and a job that probably pays better than anything you will ever hold in your entire life.
so one more time: **** you.
*Post edited by moderator* Cool it on the language. The insulting comments have been dealt with.
^^^^uh sterotyping much? xD
lol stupid hispanics
You call us stupid because you couldn't come up with an idea on getting free iPads hot out the back of a truck. Sucka!
Maybe the truck driver is keeping them
Apple should hire security guards in front of ALL apple stores.
Oh wait, they are (read: Jobs is) too cheap.
not surprised.. mexicans and puerto ricans are thieves by nature.. it's like their 1 a day vitamin.. they have to steal.. even if they have the money to pay for it. b4 u say i'm hatin.. been the victim of theft on many occasions.. and known many other victims.. the thieves are the same.. coincidence? i think not.
Wow.
That is not hatin'... that is just being a racist idiot.
The bigotry of some people here is astounding.
NEXT: Steve Jobs orders police raid on hispanic homes
This is why stores need to have delivery and security procedures in place. Cameras watching the delivery area are a must.
Better Question: Why would someone steal (or buy) an ipad?
How some people can be so ignorant in this day and age to make this a racial thing is absurd. You poor, racist idiots.
There is one thing people are forgetting. Apple already know which iPad been stolen via serial numbers so they will put a "flag" on iTunes so whoever syncs it will get visited by police.
The irony is that Apple is stealing their customers money by selling them the overpriced / mostly useless iPads in the first place.
Cool it on the racist/insulting comments. If it keeps up, comments will be turned off for this thread.
-Moderator
we seem to be entering a new phase of consumer addiction. apple ipod. ipad. and guess who isn't invited...the poor. minorities unless they save if they are lower to lower middle class. the thief was latino...racist remarks ensue. the truth is apple isn't targeting anyone but the well to do, creating an electronic bigotry that is, well, annoying.
but what about the trucks hubcaps?
The irony is that Apple is stealing their customers money by selling them the overpriced / mostly useless iPads in the first place.
Lmao, indeed.
Gee, do you really need to say the race in an article...ON THE INTERNET? it always sparks racist jokes
-Moderator
I take no offense in the matter. This stuff is hilarious.
-Hispanic Tom's Hardware Reader
Well at least the thieves will actually sell these iPads for a better price than Apple's tax probably
Searching e-bay and craigslist for dirt cheap iPads.
I am the Hispanic thief. To confess, I thought they were Tacos. But no, they taste no good .. How I gonna feed my babies .. WuWu....
Was there even any remotely good reason to put the h word in the story *twice*? Honestly Toms, you were begging for a racist outburst. While I personally couldn't care less what anyone says online (I have read and seen the worst things imaginable already) that doesn't mean it needs to proliferate. This could have been defused before the comments even started. Please, publish responsibly.
Blaming Toms for the racist outbursts above is entirely without merit. Folks are responsible for what they posted. Period.
Blaming Toms for the racist outbursts above is entirely without merit. Folks are responsible for what they posted. Period.
Agreed, its like blaming a woman for not wearing a Burka after being raped.
Why are the totally offensive comments about tacos and anchor babies still in the comments section? Because its popular to be an isolationist, racist POS of a human being here in America right now?
Those comments should be scrubbed. Hell, the people who made those comments should be scrubbed from the face of the earth.
I think everybody on both sides of the racial argument need to grpw the f**k up.
Grow up for resorting to the pathetic "comedy" material that is racial stereotypes, and grow up for being offended for merely words on a screen - nobody here is actually advocating, or planning on lynching the general Hispanic population.
FFS...