Stealing someone’s iPhone or iPad has become known as “Apple picking,” and New York City is quite the bountiful orchard.
Apples are picked on crowded subways, in quiet parks, on busy street corners, in loud bars. Apples are picked while people are talking on the phone, the picker dashing past and doing the deed in midstride.
It has gotten so bad, the police have said, that if it weren’t for Apple picking, crime would have been down last year, when there were almost 16,000 thefts, accounting for 14 percent of all crimes.
But even jaded police officers who have seen more than their fair share of iPhone and iPad thefts were shaking their heads over one stunning robbery that unfolded recently in Brooklyn.
This particular Apple was not just picked, it was picked twice, a white blur as it flew from hand to hand to hand on the same afternoon. And one of those hands seemingly belonged to that timeless character from countless police stories: the dumb criminal. Full story...
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Apples are picked on crowded subways, in quiet parks, on busy street corners, in loud bars. Apples are picked while people are talking on the phone, the picker dashing past and doing the deed in midstride.
It has gotten so bad, the police have said, that if it weren’t for Apple picking, crime would have been down last year, when there were almost 16,000 thefts, accounting for 14 percent of all crimes.
But even jaded police officers who have seen more than their fair share of iPhone and iPad thefts were shaking their heads over one stunning robbery that unfolded recently in Brooklyn.
This particular Apple was not just picked, it was picked twice, a white blur as it flew from hand to hand to hand on the same afternoon. And one of those hands seemingly belonged to that timeless character from countless police stories: the dumb criminal. Full story...
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