Thieves nab $6 million worth of Vertu phones
Say what you will about the morality of grand larceny, but this thief had some pretty good taste. The BBC is reporting that four masked men in a black Subaru forced a Vertu delivery truck off the road, at which point they apparently heisted $6 million worth of phones, jumped back in their Subaru, and sped off. No one was hurt in the exchange, save for a considerable amount of British pride and ban ledgers, but the police are still in pursuit of two of the four criminals. Vertu’s are great and all, but if we had to go to the trouble of hijacking a truck full of cellphones, it would probably be for something a bit more current. Does anyone know the HTC delivery routes?
I’d bet it was an inside job, or at least if i owned 6million worth of crap i’d probly do it myself just to collect on the insurance money and use it to try to develop something consumers actually want.
So how many exactly phones is that for $6 million bucks? It can’t be too many if the phones and the four thieves all fit back in the Subaru.
“pretty good taste…” I think highly subjective….. more like a sense of the vulgar would be more appropriate. Being a Finn I am happy that you think Vertu is a Swedish brand but it is actually part of Nokia (the last time I looked Nokia was still a Finnish company
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It depends on what models were actually stolen, but it could definitely be upwards of 500-1000 handsets. Also Vertu is a division of Nokia. Nokia being Finnish, and Vertu being British.
This is the most worthless robbery that I have ever heard of. Vertu is a worthless piece of cellphone crap. I saw it and thought wow what idiot will actually want to buy this. I would love to see how many people had “great taste”. Boy when these guys need to draw attention they sure go through a ton of trouble.
Now, if it was $6M worth of Nokia E90’s stolen on their way to the shops, then i’d be much more concerned. Damn, i cant wait to get one of these babies!!
First off who the hell would want a Vertu phone. I agree I would have liked a truckload of iPhones or HTC’s. But dont the thieves know they have ESN’s so if they sell them they will be banned or flagged and they will get caught. Unless the take the diamonds or gold out or whatever they have in them. Damn some people are morons.
A stolen GSM phone will not be found. I agree however it may have not been the best selection for a theive, then again it was probably real easy and I’m sure some of those handsets have diamonds on them.
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