Thief brings Apple retailer's stolen iPod ....


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One iPod thief has been caught red handed, and red faced, by staff at Apple retailer KRCS.

Adrian Smith, manager at the Nottingham-based Apple reseller, had his iPod stolen from his car last weekend.

Fortunately for Smith, the cable-less criminal walked into KRCS just days later, seeking cables for a "suspiciously familiar-looking iPod".

Smith told Macworld: "I immediately recognized it. I told the bloke I?d have to try different cables, and when I plugged the iPod into the Macintosh it came up as 'Adrian?s iPod' straight away."

A quick-thinking Smith told the 'customer' he?d have to check the iPod further, and while fellow staff-member Iain McKechnie kept the thief talking, Smith called the police, who recognized the description Adrian gave of the man and responded instantly.

An arrest was made on the spot, with Nottingham city police congratulating Adrian on his instant recognition of his own property and prompt reactions.

Source - http://www.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm?home&NewsID=12441

What a:laugh:laugh:

Radish?

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I was just about to say only in america.......:rolleyes:

But then i read it was some idiot from Nottingham!!

:p

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I was just about to say only in america.......:rolleyes:

But then i read it was some idiot from Nottingham!!

:p

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People from nottingham are bright :laugh:

even though it was voted the 2nd worst place to live in England :pinch:

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what a moron you dont need to bring the ipod into the store to buy a cable for it. first thing you would do is format the device and rename it. of course that wont get around the serial number which apple could have somehow tracked...

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what a moron you dont need to bring the ipod into the store to buy a cable for it. first thing you would do is format the device and rename it. of course that wont get around the serial number which apple could have somehow tracked...

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Yea, but how do you do format it without the data cable genius?

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what a moron you dont need to bring the ipod into the store to buy a cable for it.

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:rofl: I know... it's so obvious it's sad.

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How do you recognize your ipod from the millions of others out there? Unless it was marked somehow or engraved.

I really doubt he knew he stole it from someone who worked at the Apple store.

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