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Teenagers swarm, rob Apple store in Hingham
The Boston Globe ^ | September 6, 2016 | Olivia Quintana

Posted on 09/06/2016 4:36:53 PM PDT by Jim Noble

Teenage boys rushed into an Apple store in Hingham on Monday evening and stole more than 20 phones, police said.

Ten to 12 boys went into the store in the Derby Street Shoppes about 5:40 p.m. and stole 22 phones before fleeing, Hingham police said in a Twitter posting.

Police said the teenagers were all wearing sweatshirts with their hoods on.

Hingham Police Sergeant Steven Dearth said a witness saw some of the boys leaving in what looked like a white Ford Taurus with the license plates covered up. The witness lost sight of another group of boys once they entered the parking lot, so there may have been another vehicle involved.

Police are investigating, and waiting for the Apple store to send surveillance camera footage, Dearth said...

“Obviously, we’ve seen things where multiple people were involved,” Dearth said. “But we haven’t seen anything quite like this that’s organized with this many people. We haven’t seen anything like that, and we have a lot of retail places there.”

The incident comes several weeks after an organized group of teenagers flooded a Roslindale convenience store July 24 and began throwing and stealing merchandise.

(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hingham; massachusetts; vibrancy
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To: LostInBayport

Description of the iPhones. We don’t know what to look for.


41 posted on 09/06/2016 5:08:43 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Menehune56

“Another story on the subject described the perps as “black males” so Apple is going to need to have guards at that store now.”

What good do you think that guards would do. You know that they won’t be armed and there are probably 30 local/state laws preventing them from doing anything except perhaps delivering a sternly-worded admonishment. If they are even touched it would be like hitting the lottery for the perps.


42 posted on 09/06/2016 5:13:15 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: Nifster

Dumbasses. iPhone 7 is just around the corner. Can’t they read? Oh, wait...


43 posted on 09/06/2016 5:14:50 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day")
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To: ealgeone
Description of the iPhones. We don’t know what to look for.

I'll take care of that before others jump on it.

Rectangular. Rounded corners.

44 posted on 09/06/2016 5:15:47 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Probably need to put Comey on the case ... just for laughs of course!


45 posted on 09/06/2016 5:22:04 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: The Antiyuppie
What good do you think that guards would do. You know that they won’t be armed and there are probably 30 local/state laws preventing them from doing anything except perhaps delivering a sternly-worded admonishment. If they are even touched it would be like hitting the lottery for the perps.

Don't you know? Massachusetts is a STRONG gun control state. Of COURSE, these young men in hoods would be obeying the strict gun control laws and regulations enacted by the enlightened progressive Massachusetts State Legislature and signed by their equally brilliant governor, who are absolutely certain that everyone obeys such laws. . . especially criminals and hoodlums. Therefore, the group of "alternate shoppers" will not be carrying anything threatening to the "Coercive Purchasing Agents" Apple might haved indentured under slave wages to force the evil company's preferred mode of shopping on innocent customers.

46 posted on 09/06/2016 5:23:11 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Jim Noble

Every display device has special software. The thieves will be lucky if all it does is brick the device. More likely they enter a power save mode devoted to transmitting location & pictures.


47 posted on 09/06/2016 5:23:16 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: LongWayHome

Or, maybe Barney Frank went into teaching youts how to screw whitey!


48 posted on 09/06/2016 5:23:50 PM PDT by Noob1999
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To: dp0622
I don't want to jump to conclusions, but we need to watch out for "Hell's Grannies".

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0kRPXTBRqE

49 posted on 09/06/2016 5:24:07 PM PDT by Zeneta
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To: Menehune56

There is a decidedly upscale mall in Jacksonville FL where the Apple store usually has at least two uniformed (and armed) JSO officers at the door. I’ve never been by there without seeing them.


50 posted on 09/06/2016 5:27:01 PM PDT by Afterguard (Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long .as it's mandatory.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt
You only get one guess...

That was my first question. 😀😆😄

51 posted on 09/06/2016 5:29:03 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered. All it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage.)
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To: LongWayHome
Hingham is 98% white & quite wealthy....most likely it was spoiled local youth.

About as likely as the Washington Generals beating the Harlem Globetrotters.

52 posted on 09/06/2016 5:29:26 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: ETL

That’s either a really big horse or a low-rider buggy. Do they have Hispanic Amish ?


53 posted on 09/06/2016 5:30:05 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Jim Noble
How do they know they were "teenagers" if they couldn't see their faces well enough to give an accurate physical description?

Were they carrying Algebra II books?

54 posted on 09/06/2016 5:30:22 PM PDT by Gritty (This election is our last chance... We won't get another opportunity. It will be too late.-DJTrump)
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To: Ken H

It happens:) This will freak out the good liberal folks of Hingham.


55 posted on 09/06/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by LongWayHome
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To: Swordmaker

I live in Massachusetts, right down the road from where this happened. I have my concealed carry license. It was very easy to get. I own multiple rifles and handguns. I shoot at my local rod and gun club all the time. Plenty of people here carry and are pro-gun.


56 posted on 09/06/2016 5:43:19 PM PDT by strider44
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To: LostInBayport

I know what is missing - the teens were all wearing sweatshirts with their hoods on.


57 posted on 09/06/2016 5:43:46 PM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: PLMerite
That’s either a really big horse or a low-rider buggy.

Yes, it was a lowrider buggy.

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58 posted on 09/06/2016 5:49:24 PM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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To: Jim Noble

“Nice” areas are only minutes away by car from thug habitats. If you have mass transit, well, young thugs often get to ride for free, being “students.”


59 posted on 09/06/2016 5:52:51 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: LongWayHome

Wrong, lol.


60 posted on 09/06/2016 5:55:16 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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