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Sometimes I wonder whether the frequent use of the terms “unlock” and “jailbreak” in conversations about the iPhone has caused a cognitive break for public who would otherwise keep to the straight and narrow. Case in point: two New York truckdrivers and an accomplice decided the best way to easy money was to crack open a shipment of 300 iPhones bound for Hong Kong, pull the phones out of the bottom of the shipping crate, throw in some reams of paper for weight and next re-shrinkwrap the package for delivery. Genius!

Unfortunately for the three men, the package didn’t look quite right to an airline worker in Hong Kong, who alerted cops. The observation led back to the Baldwin, LI shipping company that had transferred the iPhone crate, and the drivers who had sold the illicit phones (some

on Craigslist) for an $80,000 windfall. The men were arrested in possession of $23,000 (quite a bit of cash already gone on luxury splurges) and just about to move to Florida. Per the NY Daily News:

When he was asked about them last week, the truck drivers’ boss said, “It’s funny you should be asking about them. They just resigned.”

No kidding. I think we’ve all learned something today… first, whether you’re going to replace packaged iPhones with something, rock beats paper. Second, 300 iPhones in a crate going to Hong Kong, where they aren’t officially on sale? possibly those 30% unlock estimates aren’t so wacky after all.

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Orginal post by Michael Rose