Shoppers in the Apple Store at the Forum At Carlsbad this afternoon (April 16, 2010) were startled by a shrill alarm seconds before seeing two white males in their late teens or early 20s run from the store.
“We saw them walk in and they looked a little bit sketched out,” one shopper said. “Then when I heard the alarm and saw them running it kind of made sense.”
The men ran south to the parking lot behind the Sur La Table store with several Apple employees in pursuit. Bystanders called out which way the robbers ran, but just as the employees got the parking lot, the men came speeding right back through the mall parking lot in their black primer Nissan where helpful citizen copied down the license number as the car passed.
Workers, who first believed the thieves had stolen a popular, new iPad, eventually discovered that only two iPhone 3GS had been ripped from a display table near the front of the store.
“They really were the worst criminals ever,” said one shopper. “But I’m glad no one got hurt.”
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Well in their defense, the new iPhones are REALLY nice!
Yeah sure, let’s steal something in the middle of a crowded area in broad daylight with our plates on. But what to steal? How about something loaded with tracking devices that are turned on the second the devices leave the store?
GREAT IDEA!