On this month's WOW, we caught up with Patrick Stewart of Ambridge, PA and asked him to share his story of picking up a few items at a local convenience store, preparing to watch his Steelers in last year's NFL championship game when two suspicious men caught his attention. Thanks to quick thinking and his cell phone their robbery efforts were thwarted by Patrick. To learn...

Recently, we pointed out that what's often called "identity theft" involving someone falsifying bank account info to take your money is really nothing of the sort, but is instead a bank robbery where the victim gets blamed. This comedy routine makes the point quite clearly: "They took all the money? That sounds more like a bank robbery." "No, no. If only. 'Cause we could take the hit. No...

I just used Fandango yesterday to pick up tickets for Avatar 3D for $16.50. While that price is just pure highway robbery it still is one of the largest movie ticket services. Joseph let me know that they have just released a free Beta BlackBerry application for Fandango on GetJar of all places. You can ...

Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, iPhone Apple Stores continue to be sizable targets for theft, it seems the local paper in Lancaster, PA reports that four young men stole 17 iPhones from the displays at an Apple Store recently, resulting in almost $10,000 worth of losses. The robbery took place during the day; at

Apple Stores continue to be sizable targets for theft, it seems -- the local paper in Lancaster, PA reports that four young men stole 17 iPhones from the displays at an Apple Store recently, resulting in almost $10,000 worth of losses. The robbery took place during the day; at around 1:30pm, the young men just started grabbing, and walked out of the store with as many iPhones as they could carry. ...

Demand for the iPhone continues to be high and Apple are probably going to have a bumper Christmas. But some people may not be getting their shiny new handset through the legitimate channels after a robbery that occurred over the weekend. A warehouse in Antwerp, Belgium owned by Ceva Logistics which contained thousands of brand new

In the latest campaign against street robbery, police are hoping that a hand-held scanner will be able to reduce the amount of phones stolen.

Filed under: Retail, Odds and ends, Apple While the past few days have seen a spy saga of a stolen laptop and a few rapidly recovered stolen iPhones, the story at the Sagemore Apple Store in Marlton, New Jersey is more of your basic five guys vs. a plate-glass door. A well-organized 2 am robbery at

An Apple Store in Marlton, N.J., was hit by five thieves on Sept. 2, who made off with 23 MacBook Pros, nine iPod Touches and 14 iPhones. A video of the incident, currently circulating around the Internet, shows the thieves using a large rock to smash through the stores unprotected plate-glass front, before stealing the devices in 31 seconds. It was the second time that particular Apple Store has ...

NEW JERSEY - It took thieves :31 seconds to steal 14 iPhones, 23 MacBook Pro laptops and 9 iPod touch devices before the security guard on site security guard finished a long chug on his Big Gulp. Exclusive surveillance video...