I had a thought that the electronics - they're in the river. Would it be easy to walk them there and throw them in?
Well its not a river...it's the part where the Bosphorous straight meets the Sea of Marmara (the Bosphorous connects the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea), all salt water....but that's just FYI.
To chuck them immediately, they would have to run across a four lane road, and potentially be seen.
ThinkHard, what you’re saying in your reply to Emma Peel, about the perp having to run across the road to toss the electronics, holds true only for the average person.
It’s true that it is a long distance. There are 4 lanes and if we assume a length of 3 meters (10 feet) per lane, that makes 12 meters (39 feet). If we further assume the total distance from the walls to the coast is (generously) 4 times longer than the width of the road, it’ll give us an approximate distance of 48 meters (157 feet).
While a distance of 48 meters (157 feet) is long for an average human being, it certainly is not that long for a discus thrower. The average high school discus thrower should be able to easily toss an iPad into the Bosporus, and a professional discus thrower may even reach a distance longer than 70 meters (230 feet).
Since a men’s discus is 2 kg (4.4 lb), that is 3 times heavier than an iPad, a male discus thrower can even toss an ultrabook or a notebook over into the Bosporus.
Considering that the average launch speed of the discus is 25 meters/second (82 feet/second), it is quite unlikely that either pedestrians or drivers will notice anything during the 2 seconds the iPad passes over their heads.
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