January 10th, 2008
40 iPhones just stolen from this location: eBay cruisers, beware!
First thought: hmm, real close to the freeway, facilitating the robber’s gegaway.
In the Oregon state capital city of Salem, the Police Department reports that 40 new iPhones were stolen from an AT&T Mobility store in the week hours Wednesday.
According the cops in that city, (second largest in Oregon, behind my hometown of Portland) someone broke into the store, broke a window and took the phones.
Wow, man. This is the first case I have ever heard of iPhone theft.
There is a valuable lesson for all of us, though.
One would think that the theif may try to sell these devices, probably online. And as in other such cases, I wouldn’t put it past him to work with professional fence-type thieves who might try to unload these iPhones on eBay or something similar.
So if I were you, I’d be careful to not give in to temptation and buy an iPhone over the transom.
Russell Shaw is an enterprise computing journalist, analyst and author based in Portland, Oregon. See his full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
