Footage shows how woman stole £700 iPhone from Apple store using only her teeth

06 September 2023 , 17:18

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Footage shows how woman stole £700 iPhone from Apple store using only her teeth

A daring thief has stolen a £700 iPhone from an Apple store - by using only her teeth.

The woman, identified as 'Qiu', appears at first to be only to be browsing in CCTV footage taken at the shop in Fujian, south east China. After having a close look at the MacBooks, she walks over to inspect the latest iPhone model - which currently costs about £700 in the UK - and starts fiddling with it.

Just moments later, she does the unthinkable when she picks up the phone, holds it up to her mouth and begins chewing the anti-theft wire - which is made of tough metal fibres. Qiu manages to successfully bite through the wire, and coolly places it in her bag before walking out of the shop without any kind of confrontation.

The daring Apple Store thief named Qiu appears to be only browsing at the beginning of the CCTV footage taken in in Fujian, China (Newsflare)

Shop workers reportedly only realised what had happened once she had left, and called police. The shop manager, who has the surname Wang, told the South China Post that an alarm was triggered during the theft.

The thief was caught after officers looked at the footage, and she was later arrested outside her home. Qiu said to police that she had originally planned to purchase a new device at the Apple store legitimately after losing her old one, but decided to steal one instead as she was unable to afford it. She is now being detained as a police investigation continues.

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Her bizarre crime has sparked amused responses after spreading on Chinese social media, as one commenter said: "She has strong teeth." Another wrote: "Doesn’t she know there are security cameras everywhere?".

This week, authorities elsewhere in the country arrested two men for allegedly smashing a path through a section of the ancient Great Wall of China so they could take a shortcut to work. Authorities in China arrested the two men for breaking a hole in a section of the ancient wall, which is an important cultural icon and United Nations protected heritage site. The area of the breach was a broken-down section far from the restored segments most Chinese and foreign tourists are familiar with.

State media showed a dirt road cut through a the wall against a rural landscape in Youyu County, hundreds of miles west of Beijing, and identified the suspects only by the surnames Zheng and Wang. The pair wanted a shorter route for some construction work they were doing in nearby towns, the reports said.

Benedict Tetzlaff-Deas