this was an inside job. someone removed the locks before the break-in.”

Have you ever BEEN in an Apple Store? Nothing is Kensington locked except the POS MacBook Pros at the Genius Bar (and other bars/cashwraps depending on store configuration). Nothing. I’m not giving anything away here — you could walk into any Apple Store and see the same for yourself. There are alarms and other deterrents, but no Kensington or other cable-style locks.

It’s a branding decision, like the front doors without gates. The stores are positioned and branded to be completely accessible to customers (like the products). There is a calculated and accepted risk of easier theft than if the machines were more solidly locked down, but then customers couldn’t pick up and handle the products, a big part of what incites people to buy them. This isn’t Best Buy or CompUSA (R.I.P.) we’re talking about here. It’s Apple. And not only does Apple have deep pockets, they have more sales per sq. foot than retailers like Tiffany. They also have insurance.

It seems to me they just threw a brick threw it. Not much ’skill’ or ‘art’ in that.

Goes to show that the average burglar is quite unsophisticated, using crude, but effective techniques.

These were not the ‘cat burglars’ of the movies. They saw an easy target and went for it. If the target was hardened, so that a simple ‘brick hurling’ not allow entry, they would have gone on to the easier target down the street.

Totally agree with security lamination. If the brick bounced off the window, at the same time setting off a glass break audible alarm, they would probably have run off, realising their genius ‘brick plan’ had been foiled.

there is a jewelry store in the same strip mall that has been robbed several times.

i used to live in that town, Marlton. moved away last year. it is being overrun by the desperately lazy/poor that surround Philly (Camden).

http://www.eveshampd.org/press_release_september.htm

If all of those are in place, it makes it much harder to pull off an inside job.

this was an inside job. someone removed the locks before the break-in.