Burglar breaks $100K custom glass door with rocks at Boulder Apple Store
The damage caused to the glass door in the burglary of a Boulder, Colo., Apple Store was more costly than the goods that were actually stolen.
Three rocks were thrown through the custom-made glass door, which cost nearly $100,000, according to Denver's ABC 7 News. By breaking the glass door, the hooded burglar was able to get away with nearly $64,000 in merchandise, making the damage caused even more costly than the theft.
Apple's Boulder store after the recent break-in. Photo courtesy of AppleInsider reader Neal Rogers.
Among the items stolen from the Boulder location were MacBooks, iPads and iPhones. Some of the MacBook Pros stolen are priced at over $2,000.
It's expected that the goods will be sold on the black market, but if Apple can track down the stolen products, Colorado law gives the original owner the right to take back the products, even if the owner did not know the goods were stolen at the time of purchase.
"Smash and grabs" at Apple's retail stores have become something of a trend in recent years, as thieves target the locations for their popular products. In one of the more extreme cases, a burglar crashed into the glass front of a California Apple Store with a BMW X5, causing $600,000 in damage.
Three rocks were thrown through the custom-made glass door, which cost nearly $100,000, according to Denver's ABC 7 News. By breaking the glass door, the hooded burglar was able to get away with nearly $64,000 in merchandise, making the damage caused even more costly than the theft.
Apple's Boulder store after the recent break-in. Photo courtesy of AppleInsider reader Neal Rogers.
Among the items stolen from the Boulder location were MacBooks, iPads and iPhones. Some of the MacBook Pros stolen are priced at over $2,000.
It's expected that the goods will be sold on the black market, but if Apple can track down the stolen products, Colorado law gives the original owner the right to take back the products, even if the owner did not know the goods were stolen at the time of purchase.
"Smash and grabs" at Apple's retail stores have become something of a trend in recent years, as thieves target the locations for their popular products. In one of the more extreme cases, a burglar crashed into the glass front of a California Apple Store with a BMW X5, causing $600,000 in damage.
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I'm not into glass door manufacturing, but even if the manufacturer had four guys worked on the custom door for two straight months, I don't see the fair price being $100,000.
I wonder if Apple has some sort of tracking for the display models. Something more than just "find my phone". It would make sense so they could track the stolen property. Something like lojack for the notebooks and desktops.
That was one expensive breakin....
Pardon me, but did you just say aluminium?
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Originally Posted by bondr006
I thought it was transparent aluminium they were working on.
http://rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
Pardon me, but did you just say aluminium?
Yes. All people who speak proper english spell it aluminium. Only Americans get mislead by craze idiots...
:P :P :P
LOL: "Slashdot (News for Nerds)"
Tongue in cheek humor; it was a discussion on a recent thread, hence my posting.
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Originally Posted by 65C816
Yes. All people who speak proper english spell it aluminium. Only Americans get mislead by craze idiots...
:P :P :P
Yes and Steve Jobs, another American mislead by crazed idiots, chuckled every time the 'proper' pronunciation of aluminium was done by Jony Ives.
Apple needs to get away from glass and work on "Force Field" doors!
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Originally Posted by PhilBoogie
Pardon me, but did you just say aluminium?
You mean
al-u-mini-um ?
Originally Posted by rob53
Since aluminum wasn't discovered by an Englishman it doesn't really matter does it.
It matters in the sense that both are correct.
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Originally Posted by Rot'nApple
Yes and Steve Jobs, another American mislead by crazed idiots, chuckled every time the 'proper' pronunciation of aluminium was done by Jony Ives.
Apple needs to get away from glass and work on "Force Field" doors!
Maybe Jobs was the one doing the misleading? :P
A $100k glass door sounds like a prime example of form over function.
It was also named by a very indecisive Englishman.
1. The word is misled, not "mislead."
2. Here's Solipsism X's citaion from another thread, source unspecified:
aluminum (n.)
1812, coined by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), from alumina, name given 18c. to aluminum oxide, from Latin alumen "alum". Davy originally called it alumium (1808), then amended this to aluminum, which remains the U.S. word, but British editors in 1812 further amended it to aluminium, the modern preferred British form, to better harmonize with other metallic element names (sodium, potassium, etc.).
First recorded usage of the British spelling: Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound. ["Quarterly Review," 1812]
It ain't about proper English. It's about some overreaching journal editors deciding what spelling and pronounciation would be more harmonious with other metals.
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Originally Posted by rob53
Since aluminum wasn't discovered by an Englishman it doesn't really matter does it.
Sure it does. Regardless of who discovered it, it's spelled "Aluminium" and pronounced the same way.
It's not the same as words like "colour" or "organise" which are fairly generic and have been in existence so long they've had time to find alternate spellings. "Aluminium" is a fairly recent word that has never been spelled any other way in any official capacity. Therefore spelling it incorrectly, (on the basis of simply a poor pronunciation yet) is "more wrong" than most other mis-spellings.
There are rules to correct pronunciation in English, and scientific words in particular.
Titanium isn't called (or spelled) "Titanum"
Magnesium isn't called (or spelled) "Magnesum"
Calcium isn't called (or spelled) "Calcum"
Not pronouncing and spelling Aluminium correctly is an abomination that any science-y, geek-y sort of person should be ashamed of (American or otherwise).