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Bank Robbers Are Wearing iPods Now?
Australian police stopped a robbery in Sydney, arresting three men. The funny part? We think one of them may have been wearing an iPod, given that trademark white earbud cord sticking out of his pocket (hit jump for mega version). It's possible that, having cold feet at the last second, this scared masked man cranked some Judas Priests to get in that important armed robbery state of mind. Or maybe he wanted to ensure that his Nike+iPod account gave him credit for all those steps he'd be making later, sprinting from the cops. Either way, it's a bit funny and a bit sad. But from our perspective, mostly just funny. [ABCNews via digg]
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Next time you decide to rip off a bunch of Macs, camcorders and laptops, you might want to take a good look around for the unblinking eye of a video camera, because you could end up pilloried in public the next day. Check out this brazen burglary in progress, and then step back and think a minute about the victim's reaction. Rakontur, the robbed production company, decided to exact revenge on the alleged culprits by splashing videos, pictures and personal information about the criminals all over the Internet. And now we are accomplices to that outburst. We feel so dirty. Maybe it would've been better to just let the police handle this. [Rakontur]
Crooks Caught Red-Handed Stealing $20K Worth of Gadgets, Laptops and More
Next time you decide to rip off a bunch of Macs, camcorders and laptops, you might want to take a good look around for the unblinking eye of a video camera, because you could end up pilloried in public the next day. Check out this brazen burglary in progress, and then step back and think a minute about the victim's reaction. Rakontur, the robbed production company, decided to exact revenge on the alleged culprits by splashing videos, pictures and personal information about the criminals all over the Internet. And now we are accomplices to that outburst. We feel so dirty. Maybe it would've been better to just let the police handle this. [Rakontur]
11:44 AM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Charlie White
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gadget sos
Phantom Burglary Ring Targeting Tech
There's a group out in Tulsa who does whatever it takes to get their haul. They cut open ceilings and walls, rappel down surfaces, disable security systems—even climb through air ducts—and manage to make off with $60,000 to $400,000 per strike. And all without leaving a trace of their identity. Sound a bit like the movies? It does to us, too, but we can't help but imagine what kind of gadgetry these guys carry with them. More »
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Best Buy Smash and Grab: 100% Off Sale
Last Thursday, robbers used a truck to rip the hurricane doors off a Florida Best Buy. Then, a group of 5-10 people ransacked the place, going for specific high ticket items according to the police."Stuff like iPods, GPSs, laptops, probably stuff that's easy to sell, sell quick."I'm surprised we haven't seen more tech theft at chains that have little more than blister packs protecting their merchandise...which I admit are excessive against most safe cracking masterminds.
Thieves Rip Door Off Best Buy [via consumerist]
home entertainment
It's nice to see dudes get what's coming to them. The 21-year-old man who was shot by two gunmen while waiting in line at Wal-Mart for the PS3 is fine now, but the two idiots who shot him have been caught. Kotaku reports:
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PS3 Greymarket Watch: Muggers Get Caught
It's nice to see dudes get what's coming to them. The 21-year-old man who was shot by two gunmen while waiting in line at Wal-Mart for the PS3 is fine now, but the two idiots who shot him have been caught. Kotaku reports:
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gadgets
We showed you one way to how hack an ATM a couple of weeks ago (we noticed that video is no longer available for some reason), but here's a guy who had an even better way. Somehow, he got his hands on a secret code that tricked an ATM into handing him free money. The override code made the machine think it was full of five dollar bills when it was actually full of twenties. The guy used an untraceable pre-paid debit card and for every $250 he withdrew, he was actually getting his hands on $1000. More »
How to Hack an ATM and Not Get Caught: $5 Turns to $20
We showed you one way to how hack an ATM a couple of weeks ago (we noticed that video is no longer available for some reason), but here's a guy who had an even better way. Somehow, he got his hands on a secret code that tricked an ATM into handing him free money. The override code made the machine think it was full of five dollar bills when it was actually full of twenties. The guy used an untraceable pre-paid debit card and for every $250 he withdrew, he was actually getting his hands on $1000. More »
cellphones
The Gang Who Couldn't Not Get Shot By a Cameraphone
OK, so that headline was a bit rough, but it's true! Four men from Birmingham, England robbed about $139,852.50 from a bank in Newport, south Wales. Nosy shoppers shot the team with their cameraphones as they loaded up their booty and hauled away. Luckily, they got enough footage to put the entire behind bars, where they might be able to carve a beautiful cellphone out of a bar of soap. More »
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iPod Snatching In The UK On The Rise
London saw a 15 percent rise in robberies between April and June, and a fivefold increase in the number of muggings and snatch thefts. The cause? Mobile phones and digital audio players. Chief Superintendent Paul Forrester of Merseyside police said the victims were mostly students and teenagers.Some children carry phones and iPods [worth] over 600 and they are making themselves walking targets, he said.More »
