Thieves steal 20 laptops from Best Buy without touching the floor or setting off alarms.
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[quote]SOUTH BRUNSWICK — They never touched the floor — that would have set off an alarm.
They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners.
And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the same way they came in — down a 3-inch gas pipe that runs from the roof to the ground outside the store.
Police believe that’s how some brazen bandits managed to swipe 20 Apple notebooks early this morning at a Best Buy on Route 1 in South Brunswick without detection.
"High level of sophistication," said Detective James Ryan, a police department spokesman. "They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out."
Employees discovered the missing laptops, as well as a gaping hole in the ceiling, when they arrived to work around 6:30 this morning.
The thieves left boot prints on the gas pipe, which runs up the side of the building in Monmouth Junction, Ryan said.
On top of the building, they used a saw to cut through several inches of rubber and insulation, then sliced a 3-foot-wide square in the metal roof, he said.
Once inside, the burglars dropped 16 feet to 10-foot-tall racks — avoiding contact with the floor, where motion sensors would have set off an alarm. They snatched the notebooks from the racks, then went back out through the roof.
The effort was daring and unusual, said John Harris, an expert in security who has consulted on thousands of burglaries.
"I would say they were a professional crew," said Harris, who is based in Atlanta, Ga., but does work throughout the nation. "At least I’ve never dealt with anything like this. From time to time, people break in, but not usually through the roof."
It’s a first for South Brunswick police and Detective Ryan, who said he’s seen similar burglaries but never anything that required this much effort. The thieves knew the layout of the store and apparently knew the banners would block the view of security cameras, he said.
"The tools they had to bring, the alarms they had to circumvent — it certainly required a lot of high-level planning," Ryan said.
Police think it may not be an isolated incident, and that the crew — which had to include at least 2 or 3 people — might have hit other locations before. The investigating officer, Detective John Penney, will share his notes with other law enforcement agencies around New Jersey.
The corporate offices of Best Buy declined to comment.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Penney at (732) 329-4646.[/quote]
Their plan was absolutely [b][i]floor[/i][/b]less.
God damn thatls like something off an extremely cliche spy movie.
Thats alot of WONGA
Damn fairies.
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It was these guys!
It's just viral advertising for Splinter Cell Conviction.
the only thing thats not awesome about it is that they stole apple notebooks
It will be tragic if the boot print on the pipe gets them caught :/ its always the little things that cause trouble
[QUOTE=CourageDog;20609916]the only thing thats not awesome about it is that they stole apple notebooks[/QUOTE]
They're the most expensive. :cop:
Must've been awesome being a part of it.
Regardless of their motives; that's fucking badass.
[QUOTE=CourageDog;20609916]the only thing thats not awesome about it is that they stole apple notebooks[/QUOTE]
They probably intend to resell them. Macs would reel in the most money because they are so expensive.
They pass with [b]flying[/b] colors.
Good thinking, stealing Apple Notebooks. Now people won't have to pay more and get less.
When I read the thread title I Immediately thought of the Mission Impossible theme song.
Whoa
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I think it was just a bunch of 13 year olds who saw mission impossible and got lucky.
Maybe its the same guys from late last year who robbed an Apple store!
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Fucking ninjas took my laptop :argh:
This has to be a larger group of criminals. Either that or some really elaborate publicity stunt for Splinter Cell or whatever.
[quote]"The tools they had to bring, the alarms they had to circumvent — it certainly required a lot of [B]high-level planning,[/B]" Ryan said.[/quote]
There's even puns in the article.
The thieves best stay [B]light on their feet[/B] till this blows over.
that's... awesome
i don't condone burglary but seriously, that's awesome
Wow. That's fucking intense.
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That's the one :smug:
They grabbed macs, The next thing you see posted in the news is "Robbers whom stole 20 laptops returned with a note saying "These things suck, We will be back next week to get some HPs".
