i bet someone(s) paid him good money to do so...
No different then those guys who get together money, camp out for a new ipad/iphone/xbox360/ps3... ETC
Buy it and smash it 10 minutes later.. record the whole thing and peoples reactions.
I bet you will see the youtube of this in no time or on some site.
I heard he got it back. Some guy on SPUF traced the hacker, and set /b on him. Oh the internets!