Apple picking

[zuben el genub]

Public transit officials warn iPhone consumers of 'Apple Picking' - Yahoo! News

All over the news last night. Posting here since I don't think all of those that grab are the brightest, your Android might just be at risk. Especially the S3.

 

[Bob Maxey]

Public transit officials warn iPhone consumers of 'Apple Picking' - Yahoo! News

All over the news last night. Posting here since I don't think all of those that grab are the brightest, your Android might just be at risk. Especially the S3.

I guess purse snatchers are old school, so our modern tech is a step up. I remember it once was a popular crime.

Too bad you cannot catch these thieves and simply put an ice pick in their brain. NYC could add dumpsters with little carts that make it easy to load dead thieves into the dumpster.

Add an incinerator and make it run on used cooking oil so the green people will not object. Perhaps use CFL lamps for night deposits.

 

[Clementine_3]

NYC could add dumpsters with little carts that make it easy to load dead thieves into the dumpster.

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[Bob Maxey]

I have connections with Loftus here in Utah. Perhaps they can start making exploding iPhones. That might help, I should think.

 

[lunatic59]

My niece (a freshman at Temple) had her iPhone taken right out of her hands her first week at school on the subway and it was only a 4, not even a 4s. The police told her "Yeah, that happens a lot," gave her the report for her insurance and waved bye-bye.

Phone theft has outpaced underage drinking as the biggest offense on college campuses.

 

[Bob Maxey]

My niece (a freshman at Temple) had her iPhone taken right out of her hands her first week at school on the subway and it was only a 4, not even a 4s. The police told her "Yeah, that happens a lot," gave her the report for her insurance and waved bye-bye.

Phone theft has outpaced underage drinking as the biggest offense on college campuses.

Sad to hear it. Not amazed or taken aback, which is also sad.

 

[Hadron]

Not that new a phenomenon though. I remember reports of iPod muggings, back when they were relatively new and not yet ubiquitous. White earbuds told the mugger who to target.

Certainly regrettable, but sadly not surprising.

 

[Satires]

I have connections with Loftus here in Utah. Perhaps they can start making exploding iPhones. That might help, I should think.

Bwa! ha ha ha! That reminds me of a James Bond movie where this guy walks up to a car with an alarm sticker, reads it and takes a tire iron to the window and the car explodes! Pfft! ba! ha ha ha!

Good one!

 

[Satires]

Alright, a little common sense here...

I don't care what kind of phone you have!

Most snatchers are not always going to be able to tell what you're using and just snatch it "Hoping" for the elite iphone.

That would be my move!

I would go by based on opportunity of getting away with a phone snatching. Atleast I could make a few cents of an lower end device and hopefully get a good one along the way. I would put opportunity over trying to guess what you have in your hand.

No, I'm not a phone snatcher.

But in this economy? I'd be darn careful regardless of what phone you own!

 

[zuben el genub]

You can get other white earphones.
Beats by Dr. Dre Tour White Earbuds w/ Control Talk

I certainly wouldn't pay for them

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So white ear buds are not necessarily Apple.

This was originally a warning based on Apple's lawsuit about Samsung looking too much like an Iphone. If a lot of people in stores can't tell the difference, than neither can some thieves.

 

[breadnatty08]

It's a really bad problem here in DC on the Metro. Thieves wait for right when the doors close and snatch them from folks and are able to flee pretty easily. There are PSA signs all over the place. One other nice reason not to have an iPhone. No one has any idea what my phone is.

 

[Satires]

It's a really bad problem here in DC on the Metro. Thieves wait for right when the doors close and snatch them from folks and are able to flee pretty easily. There are PSA signs all over the place. One other nice reason not to have an iPhone. No one has any idea what my phone is.

Depending on your state laws, you can have Smith&Wesson as your phone/body guard!

 

[breadnatty08]

Here's the new low:
Watch an iPhone being stolen from a baby | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

 

[ScandaLeX]

Here's the new low:
Watch an iPhone being stolen from a baby | Technically Incorrect - CNET News

Gives taking candy from a baby a whole new meaning.