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Question: How Many Cops Does It Take to Bust a Ring of Cellphone Thieves?

This many, apparently. This was the scene in North London yesterday afternoon, as 600 cops in scary riot gear marched up a suburban street on their way to knock some thievin' heads together. More »

12:00 PM on Fri Mar 28 2008
By Addy Dugdale
13,122 views, 61 comments

bank robbers

iPhone In Ireland and Austria Gives Us Excuse to Talk Beer

The iPhone is now available in Ireland and Austria, for the usual 399 (8GB) and 499 euros (16GB.) Yes, that's $778 for the same 16GB version that is manufactured in Asia for exactly the same price (in the US, a 16GB iPhone will cost you $519—tax included—in New York, a whopping $259 difference.) Apple Europe keeps milking European consumers with extremely abusive pricing, citing "marketing and importing costs." Whatever. European Union, it's time to bust this daylight robbery. And now I need a Guinness (hey, it's like black breakfast cereal). [TMobile and O2]

7:10 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Jesus Diaz
4,507 views, 40 comments

Latest by bu11etman: Can't wait for the iPhone to get to Norway. Would probably be 1000-1200$ in ridicules-overpriced-Norway. Why do we always get ripped off? The 40GB Cheap ass PS3 is @ 780$ incl tax..... :( the 60GB was more »

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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
13,487 views, 19 comments

Latest by SomeoneUKno: OK... I have to do this since nobody else did... PWN3D! All better. more »

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 »

3:00 PM on Fri Jun 22 2007
By Jason Chen
6,236 views, 21 comments

Latest by Kevin Hall: @Crevans You mean ultra sweet high tech binoculars. more »

laptops

HOAX! Alleged Thieves Unknowingly Upload Fun-House Mugshots from Stolen MacBook

Update: We've been had. It looks like this is a hoax. These pics were uploaded to Flickr from the website TopShop, and are the Top 50 photos taken in the exclusive Photo Booth areas set up at the London Fashion Week Venue. Turns out these people aren't thieves at all! More »

10:30 AM on Mon Apr 9 2007
By Charlie White
10,886 views, 27 comments

gadgets

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 »

9:57 AM on Wed Oct 18 2006
By Charlie White
19,012 views, 36 comments

Latest by kennyonthehighway: I pulled up to ATM machine at IBC in muskogee oklahoma, put my debit card in< tryed to get my money out, it was so far in there, it lodged, door slam shut give me a reciept to money I more »

gadgets

Who Jacked My GPS?

Stay on the lookout, dear readers, because there are miscreants on the prowl, looking to lift your GPS navigation system. In fact, according to USA Today, they're more interested in those assorted and sundry technological devices such as GPS/nav units, cellphones, Blackberries and various music players than the cars themselves. More »

11:59 AM on Mon Jun 26 2006
By Charlie White
81 views, Comment

digital cameras

NAB Host to HDTV Camera Heist

As some of your intrepid Gizmodo editors walked the aisles of last month's National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas, little did we know that there were thieves afoot. Even though there were over 100,000 people there, right under all our noses was a series of big-ticket heists underway. More »

1:29 PM on Fri May 19 2006
By Charlie White
173 views, 11 comments

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