Nearly $6 million in Vertu phones stolen from van
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 4th 2007 1:12AM
posted Jun 4th 2007 1:12AM
Stealing £3 million ($5.94 million) worth of mobile phones sure sounds like a risky way to may a buck, but if you're going to jack mobile handsets, you might as well swipe the ones that depreciate the least, eh? A crew of four men in Europe apparently agreed with that mantra, as they got up the nerve to run a Vertu van off the road with their Subaru and reportedly swiped a fair amount of handsets before darting off. There was no word on just how many phones were actually stolen, but we're sure the boys in blue found a fully stocked trunk after it located the crashed vehicle in Slough, Banks. Two of the four masked bandits were later captured and arrested for their part in the heist, but the other duo is probably trying to figure out how in the world they would unload hordes of these highly sought after mobiles without garnering suspicion in the first place.[Via BGR]
I don't get what makes Vertu phones so expensive anyway, are they solid platinum or something?
Slough is in Berkshire, or "Berks" for short, not Banks!
They come under the more money than taste/sense category. And if that's what floats your boat then fair enough, but i don't like feeling ripped off so they wouldn't be for me.
this was just the training for hitting the iphone trucks later on. I am prepping my old car too ^^
"highly sought after"
Really? Those are some of the fugliest phones I've ever seen and don't have a very great feature set. Who really wants them?
They have the greatest feature in the world - the gold button on the side.
2nd that.... idiots
oh come on, cut them some slack. At least the op had some helpful information. Non-Brits would have no idea bout geographical british slang.
So pretty much they stole like 3 phones...lol.
They probably stole about 10
wow i saw that in person i feel really special. The funny thing is its right outside the Nokia building as well!
*a fair NUMBER of handsets
@Teo - exactly. That's why it's all the more important to educate them!