Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy

**Churlant** · 4th March 2010 09:37 AM

SOUTH BRUNSWICK — They never touched the floor — that would have set off an alarm.

They didn’t appear on store security cameras. They cut a hole in the roof and came in at a spot where the cameras were obscured by advertising banners.

And they left with some $26,000 in laptop computers, departing the same way they came in — down a 3-inch gas pipe that runs from the roof to the ground outside the store.

Police believe that’s how some brazen bandits managed to swipe 20 Apple notebooks early this morning at a Best Buy on Route 1 in South Brunswick without detection.

"High level of sophistication," said Detective James Ryan, a police department spokesman. "They never set off any motion sensors. They never touched the floor. They rappelled in and rappelled out."

Employees discovered the missing laptops, as well as a gaping hole in the ceiling, when they arrived to work around 6:30 this morning.

Acrobatic thieves hit N.J. Best Buy avoiding cameras, motion sensors, alarms in daring heist | - NJ.com

What can you really say to something this horribly cool?

**Dangermouse** · 4th March 2010 11:10 AM

Even cooler, how did the employees discover the laptops if they were missing? :O

**Viv_1** · 4th March 2010 11:14 AM

We stayed in a Spanish hotel, thieves abseiled down from the roof to the 16th floor and went in via the balcony. We agreed anyone with that amount of huevos deserves your money...you'd pay good money just to watch that