{"id":422493,"date":"2026-10-22T06:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422493"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:00:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T12:00:55","slug":"french-apple-store-looters-get-unpleasant-surprise-on-stolen-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=422493","title":{"rendered":"French Apple Store Looters Get Unpleasant Surprise on Stolen iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/10\/21\/world-news\/french-apple-store-looters-get-unpleasant-surprise-on-stolen-iphones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>iHope you weren\u2019t planning on getting away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Looters who descended on a French Apple Store during the chaotic riots were reportedly greeted with warnings from their ill-gotten gains that the merchandise was being locked and tracked.<\/p>\n<p>Viral video from the aftermath of the looting of the Lille Apple Store on Oct. 17 shows one of the thieves flashing the security warning on the stolen iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease return the device to Apple Lille. This device has been disabled and is being tracked. Local authorities will be alerted,\u201d the alert read.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s products famously flash such warnings when they detect that they have been stolen from stores, with many on social media mocking the thieves who were seen rummaging through the seller over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProtesters raided an Apple Store in Lille France yesterday, dumbest move ever,\u201d one person posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaking iPhones that will get blocked 2 minutes later, the morons,\u201d another person added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These guys are not the sharpest pencils in the box.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post. iHope you weren\u2019t planning on getting away with it. Looters who descended on a French Apple Store during the chaotic riots were reportedly greeted with warnings from their ill-gotten gains that the merchandise was being locked and tracked. Viral video from the aftermath of the looting of the Lille Apple Store on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-full-frontal-stupidity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422496,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422493\/revisions\/422496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}