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Four people have been charged with stealing $1m worth of MacBook Airs destined for local school kids. US prosecutors have charged the four with participating in a scheme to steal, transport and sell 1,200 of the fruity machines. One of those charged is the driver of the lorry involved in transferring the devices. The …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    $1m worth of MacBook Airs

    So, four then?

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  2. chivo243 Silver badge
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    Yep, that's how their delivered

    All of our deliveries come on pallets, brown boxes wrapped in non-descript black plastic. The shiny white boxes never see the light of day...

    I always wondered what kept a free thinking delivery guy from letting them "fall" off the back of the truck.

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      Re: Yep, that's how their delivered

      "All of our deliveries come on pallets, brown boxes wrapped in non-descript black plastic. The shiny white boxes never see the light of day..."

      Outers are used so that if they are returned for some reason they can still be sold as new. As soon as you stick a label on a main packaging, it's classed as used if returned.

      "I always wondered what kept a free thinking delivery guy from letting them "fall" off the back of the truck."

      Tracking. leaves depot with equipment, Arrives at destination missing equipment. Who is in the firing line? Also they will be GPS tracked, so if you stop or divert for a reason, best have a dammed good excuse.

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      1. chivo243 Silver badge
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        Re: Yep, that's how their delivered

        Well.... if he has multiple stops, one acquaintance could be waiting at one stop and make two deliveries, nothing out of the ordinary here... Oh, right, security camera's everywhere.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Dumb crims didn't think of the pocket snitch mobile phones.

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      Did they have iPhones that snitched on them?

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  4. Your alien overlord - fear me

    Shouldn't they get some sort of civic award for stopping the iSores from corrupting our youth?

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  5. Arctic fox
    Childcatcher

    Re "handed over in plain-brown cardboard packaging"

    And so they should have been! See icon

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  6. Arachnoid

    So it just proves

    Air is not free

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