Well damn ... you don't see this happening at the Samsung store, now do you...? Oh wait, what Samsung store...?
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Paris Apple Store robbed of more than $1 million in goods
Apple's Paris store near the Paris Opera House, in a photo taken during the iPhone 5 launch this past September.
(Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET)Armed robbers broke into the Apple Store in Paris on New Year's Eve and made off with more than a million dollars' worth of merchandise, according to reports.
Masked suspects wielding handguns forced their way into the store through an employee entrance as a janitor was leaving, about three hours after the store's 6 p.m. closing time, England's Telegraph reported. The janitor was "lightly injured," the news outlet said. The Wall Street Journal cited French reports and said a security guard had also been overpowered by the thieves.
The Journal said two suspects forced their way in, and the Telegraph reported that four or five suspects total were involved in the robbery.
The thieves ignored display items and grabbed boxes of goods, loading them onto a truck. The whole operation took about 40 minutes, the Telegraph reported.
The total value of the stolen goods was estimated at about 1 million euros, or $1.32 million. But the exact total is not yet known, as an inventory is still being taken, the Telegraph reported.
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Join the conversation! Add your comment- Meanwhile you can pick up an Android tablet or phone at Les Puces(The Fleas) market for free with a carton of black market Gauloise ****.
- Posted by molkood (225 comments )
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- Actual worth about 200 bucks. Free marketing worth $1 million.
- Posted by yuxxie (119 comments )
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- As dumb as the criminals!!
- Posted by 1ZepWant2 (547 comments )
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- Glad no one is reported to be seriously hurt. Sucks to be that store's insurance company lol.
- Posted by manuel_v_v (97 comments )
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- "Wanna rob a bank?"
"Naw, lets rob a store where all the produc
serial numbers are on file, along with the UID's, so we'll get busted the second we try to sell one."
Criminals are dumb. - Posted by sawilsonorg (1062 comments )
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- You seriously think they're going to go on sale where they can be traced? lol
- Posted by gzjr (836 comments )
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- Face it, if crime didn't pay there would be very few criminals.
- Posted by andrew7783 (66 comments )
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- In other news---A Microsoft store was broken into and several thousand dollars worth of merchandise was reported to have been returned.
- Posted by Norseman (1192 comments )
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- I don't get it: can't they track serial numbers? I don't understand how these thieves don't get caught the second one of these devices gets on the internet.
right? - Posted by robstak (273 comments )
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- may i suggest an alarm system. 40 mins is a long time to rob.
- Posted by perryrants (11 comments )
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- Wow!! Samsung again??
- Posted by 1ZepWant2 (547 comments )
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- Yep. Slap a Galaxy SIII label on them and nobody will know the difference.
- Posted by lkrupp (1478 comments )
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- Over a million stolen, you mean to say they stole all five iPad Minis!
- Posted by Green_Fox38 (30 comments )
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- This just in, Apple has applied for a patent on robbers. They want to hope the crap they stole sells for 2 bil, they're gonna need it in court.
- Posted by WinOSXBuntu (3689 comments )
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- This is how they save on shipping to the Chinese Apple Store.
- Posted by rrod182_dotmac (480 comments )
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- They can fit that much inventory -- one million Euros -- in one store! The market up must be 500% to 1,000%!
- Posted by NewiPhoneUser01 (250 comments )
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