Laid-off techies swiping goods on way out

When a Cleveland-based business-to-business start-up failed several months ago, executives planned to follow a well-paved dot-com death pattern: Lay off workers, sell assets and reimburse creditors. Employees had a different plan. Between the layoffs and the asset auction, they stole $35,000 worth of laptops, handheld computers, monitors and laser printers. That left some executives, venture capitalists and other uninsured creditors in a financial lurch