New York authorities ask Apple, Google to help stop smartphone thefts

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  • Reply 81 of 85
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    "Blitz mugging"? I think an openly armed populace would quickly counter that threat.

    His "blitz mugging" sounds like your average everyday type mugging, I figured "blitz" meant many muggers doing mass muggings on a group of mugees. Kinda like when groups of favela kids swarm the beaches in Brazil and rob everyone.
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  • Reply 82 of 85
    SpamSandwichspamsandwich Posts: 33,407member

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    Originally Posted by dasanman69 View Post





    His "blitz mugging" sounds like your average everyday type mugging, I figured "blitz" meant many muggers doing mass muggings on a group of mugees. Kinda like when groups of favela kids swarm the beaches in Brazil and rob everyone.


     


    I took it as the "takeover robberies" that have plagued convenience stores in the US of late where large groups of people will swarm into a store and simply grab stuff and run out en masse... A style of robbery that is so emblematic of the groupthink and collectivism that is dominating the culture these days.

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  • Reply 83 of 85
    dasanman69dasanman69 Posts: 13,002member
    I took it as the "takeover robberies" that have plagued convenience stores in the US of late where large groups of people will swarm into a store and simply grab stuff and run out en masse... A style of robbery that is so emblematic of the groupthink and collectivism that is dominating the culture these days.

    Actually those types of robberies are old, I have personally seen them since the 70s, but they're not really that much lost in terms of merchandise, most don't add up to more than $100. It's done more for the thrill than of any necessity.
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  • Reply 84 of 85
    solipsismxsolipsismx Posts: 19,566member
    dasanman69 wrote: »
    Actually those types of robberies are old, I have personally seen them since the 70s, but they're not really that much lost in terms of merchandise, most don't add up to more than $100. It's done more for the thrill than of any necessity.

    If we consider the Mongol Hordes, Viking onslaughts, and German blitzkriegs these sort of attacks have gotten milder over the centuries. And the origins seems to be drug related as they are today if we consider the First Crusades and the assassins, which derives from the arabic meaning hashish eater. Clearly they raided villages because they had the munchies¡
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  • Reply 85 of 85
    doe924doe924 Posts: 14member
    I guess they didn't want their info in the cloud? Boo hoo cry babies. Don't forget there is insurance that covers lost/stolen through third parties. I bet they were too cheap to pay for that on a $700 phone. Now fraud on the other hand is what's costing the manufacturers money.
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