Thief steals iPads, nothing else, from Microsoft building

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Well, this has to be embarrassing for Microsoft: A story has been making the rounds on the Internet the past two days that a thief stole five iPads from Microsoft's Mountain View campus and didn't take anything else; meaning no Microsoft products were stolen.

The news originates from a report published yesterday by the Daily Post which claims the five iPads were stolen from the Mountain View campus sometime between Dec. 19 and Dec. 26. According to the report, the thieves took two iPad 2s and two iPad 3s, worth a total of more than $3,000. A fifth iPad was described as being an iPad 4, or the current version of the Apple tablet that dropped the numerical naming scheme.

The fact that Microsoft owns iPads isn't surprising, since the company makes software for the Apple tablet, but the fact that there were no Microsoft products stolen when there was surely plenty of expensive equipment made by the company around is.

Whether or not the story is true remains to be seen, but if it is fake, it's a well-made fake. The officer listed in the story, for instance, is Sgt. Sean Thompson, who is listed as the public information officer on the Mountain View Police Department's website. The report's author, Angela Ruggiero, is also listed on the newspaper's website.

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SynybunPosted:

PML why not just steal some alienware and windows 8 aswell as de ipads?


No. just no.

ChugJugPosted:

Lol that's a little sad they should have took windows 8 laptops

neboPosted:

Isn't that a bit ironic? lol

FrenzyRGPosted:

PML why not just steal some alienware and windows 8 aswell as de ipads?


Because not everyone has an iq over 69

PMLPosted:

why not just steal some alienware and windows 8 aswell as de ipads?

6TripPosted:

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TBH, i would have stolen alot more.

If I had the chance, so would I.


Lol think of all the software and computers he could have taken! worth so much more!
I would have stole one of their computers. No telling what power they have in those.

seriously. If they were going to steal, why not steal everything you can handle?
but that's hilarious how they didn't take any Microsoft products


I think the purpose of stealing those iPad's were the fact that Apple products were in a Microsoft studio.
Sounds like an inside job to me.


The goal... to humiliate lmao


toooo many responses


I hate this website


Wooooooo pyramid, ohhh yeaa


Pyramids FTW

HeilPosted:

Well, apple is better (in tablets)

ZyphrPosted:

I'm sure they had cameras, maybe they can identify him?

SecretsPosted:

Haha the best thing is it will be nearly impossible to find him.

SynybunPosted:

Feet
Afghani I would of taken way more.


Ya, but how? You have to be able to carry it out...


Would have took a backpack or something if i was robbing Microsoft.