robbery

Man's Facebook update thwarts armed robbery

What would you do if robbers entered your house? Would you confront them? Would you try to escape? Or would you disappear into the attic with your Dell laptop and update your Facebook status?

A remarkably sanguine student at the University of Georgia reportedly chose option No. 3.

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 20-year-old Nitesh Bhakta happened to be at home in Cartersville, Ga., when he heard his grandmother scream.

He told the Journal-Constitution that he opened the door to his bedroom and saw three masked men. The callous might wonder why he didn't immediately rush to comfort his … Read more

Apple store robbery caught on video

Apple stores seem such ordered and venerable establishments that even when they are populated by far too many people (which seems to happen often), nothing is out of place.

So the footage I have embedded here feels like the desecration of a church.

Some miscreants with nothing better to do in the early hours of Wednesday decided to smash the front window of the Apple store in Marlton, N.J., and make off with as much booty as they could grab.

It all seems to happen so quickly that you wonder if the security guard, who was, according to MSNBC, … Read more

New ATM break-in device: MP3 player

If there's a sudden surge in the number of iPods seen in ATM lines, this may explain it.

A criminal gang in the U.K. was able to steal confidential banking data by bugging ATMs with an MP3 player, The Times of London reported in its online edition Thursday. The gang reportedly targeted freestanding cash dispensers and would tap the phone line between the ATM and a wall socket by placing a two-way adaptor on it and connecting an MP3 player.

The digital music device would record the data traffic, which sounds like the noise a traditional computer modem … Read more