Three Men Arrested in Beijing After Tunneling into Warehouse and Stealing 240 iPhones

Three men were arrested yesterday after they were caught for stealing 240 iPhones, worth RMB 1.4 million (approx. USD 228,000), in December of last year. The men tunneled their way into an iPhone 6 warehouse through a hole around a foot and a half wide to snag the swag.

Having stolen 240 phones between December 12 and 13, worth approximately RMB 1.4 million, the thieves sold them and proceeded to do something like this:

Presence of a real life tiger and special tiger moat is unverified but state media did report that they blew a bunch of cash on cars, gambling, and gold.

Basically, they pushed it to the limit and they were standing on the razor’s edge and they looked down and didn’t keep their heads so, ya know, they were finished. They pushed it to the limit.

One of the men had previously worked for a logistics company that owned the warehouse and so Oceans Elevened the sh*t out of it.

The suspects were eventually caught by tracking the phones’ serial numbers.

Meanwhile, China's appetite for iPhones remains ravenous, outstripping the US for the first time during the last quarter of 2014, and now represents 35 percent of all iPhone sales worldwide (up from 22 percent last year). 

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