It beats waiting in line at an Apple Store.

A pair of brazen crooks punched another hole in the lax JFK security when they stole a trove of new Apple iPad minis — worth $1.5 million — from the same cargo building that was the site of the 1978 Lufthansa heist featured in “GoodFellas,” The Post has learned.

The crooks struck shortly before midnight on Monday and used one of the airport’s own forklifts to load two pallets of the tablet computers into a truck, according to law-enforcement sources.

They might have gotten more, but the thieves drove off leaving three more pallets of the Apple tablets behind after they were challenged by an airport worker returning from dinner.

“So, as a caper goes, it was probably unsuccessful,” a source said.

The thieves were still at large last night. Investigators, suspecting an inside job, have been questioning airport workers and given three of them polygraph tests, the sources said.

Yes but I imagine that they can be sold to punters and by the time they connect them up and the police track them down the crooks will have disappeared with the money. The only victims will be those that buy them.

The reason I was asking was partly cos you wouldn't have to look far round here... and you sure as hell wouldn't rip off some of the residents! Too small a country if nothing else