Steve Jobs' burglar made off with Apple co-founder's wallet
This Oct. 5, 2011 file photo shows Apple founder Steve Jobs' home in Palo Alto, Calif. A suspect has been arrested and charged in connection with the theft of computers and personal items worth more than $60,000 from the Northern California home of the late Jobs. Thirty-five-year-old Kariem McFarlin, who was arrested earlier this month, is being held on $500,000 bail.
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The San Jose Mercury News reported the details of the July 17 theft on Wednesday.
The suspect, Kariem McFarlin, 35, targeted the unoccupied home because it was under renovation, authorities said. When construction crews left, he jumped a fence and found a spare key, according to the report. McFarlin apparently realized he was in Jobs' house when he saw a letter addressed to him.
"There's certain things you don't do, and burglary is one of them. But burglarizing an icon like that, that just puts yourself pretty much in the deep hole," McFarlin's former boss, Ross Rankin, told the newspaper.
Taken were iPhones, iPads, iPods, Macs, Cristal Champagne and $60,000 worth of Tiffany & Co. jewelry. McFarlin sold the jewelry to a dealer online and gave the iPads to a daughter and a friend, according to the report.
Police said McFarlin was arrested earlier this month after using the stolen devices to connect to the Internet.
McFarlin wrote an apology letter to Jobs' widow, according to the police report.
He remains jailed on $500,000 bail and is expected to appear in court Monday. He faces almost eight years in prison if convicted.
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You mean the former Apple co-founder's former wallet?
And the myth of Steve Jobs is one people can praise over all they want. Reality shows him being rather different. Rankin does all but directly say there are double standards by essentially saying if you burgle some rich person's house, it's far worse than burglarizing anyone else. Not buying the claim, sorry. Like other unethical acts, burglary and grand larceny are just that. Let's not forget that and it doesn't matter who gets burgled. Especially if the victims are living, noting the article says the ex-CEO's name rather than the family who owns the estate, which is pretty revealing in other ways too...
Let's also not forget that Steve Jobs ignored the engineer who told Steve Jobs long before the iPhone 4's launch that there was a defect and told customers they were holding the phone wrong.
Let's not also forget Steve Jobs used his company's security camera to track the person who wrote a note onto his car, which was parked illegally, to move it to fire the guy, and Steve Jobs kept parking in handicapped slots for some time after that...
Which makes sense... given how often he acted like a spoiled bratty diva to others, he probably had a mental handicap. One incident was this:
http://www.styleite.com/media/steve-jobs-photo-shoots/
But one can find a zillion articles.
Why anybody praises that man is beyond me. They can praise the MYTH all they want, but out here in real life, Steve Jobs was a man with an entitlement complex who thought he was better than everybody else and had no problems being a disrespectful, condescending jerk. He does not deserve respect. Sorry, but that is the truth.
Sources:
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/07/iphone-4-antenna/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2365705,00.asp
http://www.cultofmac.com/2613/steve-jobs-still-parking-in-handicapped-spaces-the-pictures/
http://thednetworks.com/2011/10/06/steve-was-employee-zero-used-to-park-his-mercedes-in-handicapped-parking-and-some-more-less-know-facts-about-steve-jobs/
And if this man was ever a "Democrat", it was in name only.
Plenty of stories on that deceased person, but I don't praise false idols.
The burglar was a piece of vermin. You don't steal - that's an unethical act. Or one of the unethical acts still deemed "illegal".
But then, so is parking in a handicapped spot.
Forgive me my ambivalence.