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Stupid news of the day: Man robs apple store with X5, does not end well.

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A Los Angeles man is being accused of using his 2003 BMW X5 as a battering ram to break into an Apple Store in Temecula, CA last week. The morning robbery on September 6 was caught by surveillance cameras, which show the BMW barreling through the store's glass front and a number of masked men hopping out to snatch iPhone and iPad display models.

What the LA driver didn't anticipate was the Apple Store not giving up its goods without a fight. After the BMW went grille-first through the glass, a security gate dropped down, trapping the criminals and their getaway car inside. The video below shows the driver repeatedly ramming the gate with his BMW, pulling forward and knocking over displays covered in iPhones, iPads and computers each time to do it.

The driver eventually extricates his X5 from the Apple Store, but the CUV was in such bad shape that police report it didn't make it far from the scene. Having to deal quickly with two flat tires, the driver and his crew reportedly swapped out one for the spare and visited a nearby 7-11 to steal some Fix-A-Flat. The accused driver, Equonne R. Howard, was detained near the scene of the crime a few hours later. Police think he returned looking for his license plate that fell off in the kerfuffle with the security gate.

Howard is being held on $600,000 bail, which is what reports say the damage to the Apple Store is estimated at. He's been charged with enough counts to fill two pages of complaints, which include vandalism, burglary and theft of electronics. Apple Store burglaries have become increasingly common as the popularity of the company's products has gone meteoric, but we've never seen one botched so thoroughly, nor one that clumsily uses a BMW to pick the lock.

From Autoblog Apple Store fights back against BMW X5-driving burglars

Too bad there's no Official Retards of the World threat :concentrate:

lol steal couple electronics

salvages a 15g car

The burgular escaped as soon as there was clearance from the bmw ramming into the gate lol...
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robbery fail :ahwow:

Here's the plan, I'll grab the iphones and ipads. You just have to make sure you get the bmw through the gate.

*5 minutes later*
You only had one job!

I enjoyed watching that video.
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would've used a stolen car without plates and dumped it inside. dumb-ass.

just fix it and resell it on a kingsway used card dealership....advertised as "NO ACCIDENTS"....
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don't even know why they bother stealing it when apple clearly knows which store has which serial number and can track individual items :fulloffuck:

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Originally Posted by tiger_handheld (Post 8029397)

would've used a stolen car without plates and dumped it inside. dumb-ass.

Exactly what I was thinking.

Maybe these dumbasses thought the iPhone 5 arrived already :troll:

I mean...why else would they go straight off to grabbing iPhones...instead of stealing more expensive items such as Mac Book Pro's....etc

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Originally Posted by jackmeister (Post 8029485)

don't even know why they bother stealing it when apple clearly knows which store has which serial number and can track individual items :fulloffuck:

thieves don't know better.

At least they weren't smart thieves, if they were; they would've gotten away with a lot of apple products...

Which could be a good thing :troll:

asian woman drives a high-end car into a shop and its just another day in richmond

hispanic male drives a high end X5 into a store and all of a sudden he's a robber?

You guys and your stereotypes.

darn, thought they were gonna get away haha

There was also a recent robbery of two bentleys from a dealership in the states. The robbers showed up in a red x5. Wonder if it's the same guys. The shop left the two bentley's running outside running to warm them up.
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hahaha had to return to pick up the licence plate.

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A Los Angeles man is being accused of using his 2003 BMW X5 as a battering ram to break into an Apple Store in Temecula, CA last week. The morning robbery on September 6 was caught by surveillance cameras, which show the BMW barreling through the store's glass front and a number of masked men hopping out to snatch iPhone and iPad display models.

What the LA driver didn't anticipate was the Apple Store not giving up its goods without a fight. After the BMW went grille-first through the glass, a security gate dropped down, trapping the criminals and their getaway car inside. The video below shows the driver repeatedly ramming the gate with his BMW, pulling forward and knocking over displays covered in iPhones, iPads and computers each time to do it.

The driver eventually extricates his X5 from the Apple Store, but the CUV was in such bad shape that police report it didn't make it far from the scene. Having to deal quickly with two flat tires, the driver and his crew reportedly swapped out one for the spare and visited a nearby 7-11 to steal some Fix-A-Flat. The accused driver, Equonne R. Howard, was detained near the scene of the crime a few hours later. Police think he returned looking for his license plate that fell off in the kerfuffle with the security gate.

Howard is being held on $600,000 bail, which is what reports say the damage to the Apple Store is estimated at. He's been charged with enough counts to fill two pages of complaints, which include vandalism, burglary and theft of electronics. Apple Store burglaries have become increasingly common as the popularity of the company's products has gone meteoric, but we've never seen one botched so thoroughly, nor one that clumsily uses a BMW to pick the lock.

From Autoblog Apple Store fights back against BMW X5-driving burglars

I guess run flats would be advantageous here

And why not go for the laptops? freaking idiots.

lmao... i hope they made more money selling those then the lawsuit they are going to have

^ except they used the correct vehicle for the job :fuckyea:

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Originally Posted by inv4zn (Post 8033347)

Wtf. Same thing happened today at Metrotown.

Thieves smash car into B.C. mall to loot jewelry stores - British Columbia - CBC News

That took the thieves a while to get out of the car and started the loot...

i lol'd when they were trying to escape by ramming backwards