Please don't Godwin a thread right off the bat. Hee hee. If you traffic in stolen physical objects, I want the police to investigate thoroughly. You're proba

Please don't Godwin a thread right off the bat. Hee hee. If you traffic in stolen physical objects, I want the police to investigate thoroughly. You're probably right, but the objection I agree with is the priority that Jobs/Apple got because of who Steve is. They wouldn't bust down the door for just anyone. If some small startup complained that a prototype was stolen, the police would not have acted so promptly and decisively. And that's the problem I have with this. The response should have been proportional to the crime: it should have been "well, we have a lot of other complaints right now, and this isn't going to affect much of anything. Sorry." -- not "SIR YES SIR! We'll bust that door down forthwith, sir!"