If only they weren’t so darned, er, portable

stolenLaptopEVERGREEN – A Bergen Park electronics salesman called the JCSO help-desk on the morning of May 10 after getting burned by a hot prospect. The day before, he moaned, a young Hispanic fellow wearing a muscle shirt and a couple gigs of tattoo-graphics on his bare arms and shoulders came in to size up TVs and, after maybe 45 minutes of judicious FAQs, chose one. When the salesman returned from the stock room with his merchandise, however, his hard-won sale had vanished from the showroom, as had an HP Pavilion notebook computer. Intriguingly, a gentleman matching the shifty shopper’s description performed an identical shop-and-shimmy at the chain’s Golden outlet just three days before, but somehow the corporate APB never made it up the canyon. As to recovering its pilfered property, it seems the venerable technology shop doesn’t employ video security technology, and nobody ever thought to note the missing computer’s serial number. Pending further data, the Case of the Purloined Pavilion remains in sleep mode.