Police nab not-so-smart phone thief in Chinese capital

A Beijing woman has been detained for stealing an iPhone from an Apple store, Chinese media reported.

Staff at the shop on Wangfujing Street called the police after noticing a display model had gone missing, Sina.com reported on Tuesday, without saying when the theft took place.

After reviewing footage from the store’s security cameras, police identified a suspect and went in search of her.

The film shows the woman, surnamed Cen, yanking on the phone in an effort to break the cable securing it to the display table. After a couple of tugs, the phone comes free and she walks out of the store with it.