Tag: STOLEN

Symptom: You reach into your pocket or bag, and, well, it's empty! Diagnosis: Beyond the understandable distress of losing a pricey smartphone, laptop or tablet PC, the real trauma is the sudden and unfettered access afforded to the slippery-fingered jerk who took it. The cost of a new laptop is meager compared to the personal and even financial havoc that a motivated thief can wreak ...

On September 24th, a burglar broke into the Maryland home of Kari and Derek Fisher, and walked away with a pair of digital cameras, a satellite radio, and Derek's wallet. Had the thief stopped there, he may have gotten away with the crime. Instead, though, he decided to swipe Derek's cell phone, and inadvertently sealed his fate. Upon discovering the break-in, the Fishers placed a series of ...

Stolen items routinely appear on online auction sites, and, occasionally, watchful victims will even discover their own missing goods. One burglary victim recently discovered the benefits of such eBay vigilance, although eight years had elapsed since his belongings were actually taken. When Minnesotan Doug Duncan's house was originally burgled, a 1957 Gibson Les Paul Special guitar was among the ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2010/03/03/wi-fi-finders-helping-thieves-locate-and-steal-laptops/'; We don't recommend leaving your laptop in the car for any reason, but, if you must, make sure you turn off the Wi-Fi signal first. According to Network World, thieves are using devices meant to locate Wi-Fi networks to detect laptops and steal them. Apparently, just closing the screen won't ...

All you Mac addicts living in the greater Los Angeles area might want to watch your backs while visiting the local Apple Store. According to the Los Angeles Times, a group of burglars has been following customers from Apple Store locations and stealing computers from unattended cars. Surprisingly, these "follow-away" burglaries have occurred more than 100 times over the past year. The Orange ...

Getting burgled is bad enough. Having a burglar strike, and then taunt you about it on Facebook, though, is just plain terrible. Unfortunately, that's exactly what happened last week to an East Sussex, England woman. According to the Telegraph, a thief broke into Victoria Richardson's home and took her iPhone, Nintendo DS, cash, debit cards, and a black Toshiba laptop. When Richardson later logged ...

Residents of Kelowna, British Columbia were shocked and appalled when, in early June, thieves pilfered dozens of computer screens from a resident's driveway, according to The Province. Kelowna General Hospital had donated the monitors to Trinity Baptist Church, and had planned to then distribute the screens to impoverished hospitals in Cameroon, Africa. As a church volunteer loaded the monitors ...

At least one in five Engadget staffers can attest: Car stereo crime was all the rage in the 1990s, and needless to say, we were all on the losing end of the deal. These days, however, larceny cases involving in-dash head units has dropped dramatically, and we've generally got no one but the auto makers to thank. Back in the day, factory stereos were downright laughable, and considering that most ...

If the shrink -- that measure of lost sales that typically go unaccounted for -- gets to growing at a faster pace than sales, you just might have a problem on your hands. According to Mark Fisher, EMA VP of strategic initiatives, that's exactly what's happening in some retail locations, though he does point out that having to tackle a theft issue is, at least in some way, a sign of heightened ...

Can't wait for Black Friday? Neither could two suspects in Virginia Beach. Reportedly, a crafty duo entered a local Wal-Mart late last week, with one placing a Samsung Blu-ray player in her cart while the other placed a DVD / VCR combo unit in his cart. Once that was complete, the two met in the pet section, swapped the unwanted DVD / VCR unit out for a Blu-ray deck and proceeded to checkout. ...

Not that we'd have any expert knowledge in the wide world of theft, but this just doesn't seem like the best way to go about snagging a new HDTV. At any rate, an undisclosed amount of thieves reportedly drove a truck (or large SUV... it was dark outside, okay?) into the front door of Los Tres Amigos restaurant in a small Pennsylvania town, broke the glass, ganked a 47-inch Insignia HDTV and "fled ...

Look at that face. That's the face of some poor sap who is either the unluckiest thief ever, or a guy who keeps some really bad company. His misadventure began when one of five Mac laptops stolen from the offices of a Vancouver, BC-based Web startup landed in his hands. WorkSpaces -- the victim company -- had used this particular laptop as a photo booth for its online guest book hosted at ...

If you shop with any frequency at giant chain stores such as Circuit City, Best Buy, Home Depot or even Bed, Bath & Beyond, you've probably grown accustomed to showing a security person your receipt and allowing him to inspect the contents of your bag as you leave the store. For most of us, this inspection is routine and nothing more than a nuisance. But, have you ever stopped to wonder if ...