The one positive come out of this. A positive for thieves that is. Thieves won't have to worry that anyone in that neighborhood will call the cops if Gates’ apartment is ever broken into again.
I’d like to see a contest: “Break into Prof Gates House!”
It could be a videogame, or it could be real, but either way there should be a gangsta rap tune which would become an overnight platinum seller. The music video would show footage from Rodney King, the Selma riots, the MLKing assasination, Roots, and the Rosa Parks memorial bus. At the end, the rap group could just be shown sitting around a table drinking beers, as long as they drove up in Bentleys and Maybacks.
Of course, that whole idea is just my incredibly sick mind wandering where it probably shouldn’t. Watch for it.