Posted on 06/16/2013 5:00:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
The Democratic National Convention may be long over, but its organizers have not forgotten the almost half a million dollars worth of electronics they seem to have lost.
Organizers of the Charlotte, N.C., convention have filed a police report for lost and stolen electronics, some of which they appear to have valued at as much as 62 times the listed market prices.
A reportedly stolen 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop? $75,537. The price listed on the Apple website is $1,199. A lost iPhone? $30,503. A lost Blackberry? $54,250.
The DNC did not respond to a request for comment.
Calls to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for elaboration on the report were not returned.
Other items reported to have gone missing at the convention included two iPads worth around $15,000 each, laptops listed at $40,000, $34,000 and $25,000 each, and other miscellaneous items worth far more than their list price.
The report claimed that 40 items were reported lost and one item – the most highly valued one, the $75,000 MacBook Pro – was stolen.
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I’ve got a MacBook Pro that they can have for 60k - that’s a steal ;-)
“Some kind of insurance scam....if you ask me. No insurance company is going to pay prices like this.”
Insurance companies probably will pay because it is the dnc, a great way to give them a half million dollars at the expense of their customers. Some dnc lackies were probably told “take it home we’re through with it”.
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