An Apple Store is Robbed!

It must be an unfortunate sign of our times.  My neighborhood Apple store in the Clarendon shopping area of Arlington, Virginia, was robbed yesterday morning about 4 a.m. by persons who appeared to be organized and bold.  They wore masks, apparently knowing that the store has multiple security cameras (which caught everything, I am told). They had a dog with them (I have no idea why).

The bandits broke the glass door and stripped the store of most Macbooks, Macbook Pros, iMacs, iPods and iPhones on display.  It apparently happened quickly.

A friend tells me that each computer contained thousands of dollars in valuable software.  But here’s something else – Apple has the serial numbers of each machine and has the ability to wipe the hard drives when the computers go online.

Let’s hope such robberies are not the start of a trend.