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Last week we brought you the story of former NBA player Rex Chapman’s arrest on charges of stealing $14,000 in merchandise from several Apple Retail Stores in Scottsdale, Arizona. Today Chapman appeared in court (via Engadget), facing multiple felony charges for trafficking in stolen property and organized retail theft.
The video of Chapman’s court appearance is above, but below you’ll find video of several instances in which Chapman stole products from the Apple Store after pretending he had checked out through the store’s EasyPay system.
Chapman will return to court on Friday.
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The “no sales clerk” buying experience has to be such a temptation/honey pot for kleptomaniacs. I can just see Chapman getting away with it the first time and thinking “Wow, Apple really doesn’t care if people take things,” and each successive theft reinforcing that thought.
For some reason, I always have to get a clerk to ring me up at the Apple store, I could never do the iPhone/no sales clerk thing, as I would feel guilty walking out without someone knowing I had paid.
Smash-and-grabs. The only think Scamsuck hasn’t paid people to do at their stores to copy Apple. Yet. Guess they’d have to have a store first (one that anyone gave a shit about anyway).
Chocke and troll on that herb and co.
You’d expect the CCTV in Apple stores to be of much higher quality. Hell an iPhone 3GS camera is better than that!
Did the job of catching him in the act, though…and on several occasions too.
But many people will give him a pass because sports people are to the many in the USA are like what water is to the ocean.
You need to rethink your analogy. It makes no sense. Are you saying that sports people make up the entirety of the ‘many in the usa’.
Whoops! I meant to end that with a question mark.