What is it with idiots and electronics today? First, some bone-headed German bargain hunters got swindled shopping for discount iPods. And now, down in Mexico, thieves are stealing hollow replica display case mobile phones.
Reports HuffPo:
Employees at a Telefonica Movistar cell-phone store in Morelia, Mexico say they arrived Tuesday morning to find that the store had been broken into. An examination of the shop revealed the only items missing were hollow replica phones for display that are completely useless for making calls.
Employees say the clueless thieves overlooked real cell phones and cash in another part of the shop.
Even though the hot goods are nearly worthless, detectives are still on the case, meaning these idiots could eventually serve some jail time for their hollow plastic haul. [Huffington Post - Thanks, Scotland]
Rob
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 9:26 AMThis happens alot in australia to, i work for a phone company on the gold coast and we have to replace at least 3 dummy phone’s a week because people steal them.
marc
Monday, July 13, 2009 at 8:07 PM@Rob
Yeah I work in the home entertainment section of a target in Sydney and we have mothers rolling past with their prams just ripping them off the displays so they can give them to their kids to play with… we’ve started locking them up with the phones themselves.