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'The Playstation Job' Heisters Arrested

Posted by simoniker on from the do-17,000-playstations-fit-in-a-mini? dept.

Thanks to the New Jersey Star-Ledger for their news that a gang who stole $5 million worth of PlayStation consoles in a high-tech train heist have been arrested and indicted. According to the article, the theft ring, known as the 'Conrail Boyz', stole more than $20 million of merchandise from freight trains, and their "..largest single take was 17,496 Sony PlayStation electronic game systems worth more than $5 million and involved members driving off with a cargo container, authorities charged." Seriously, what would you do with 17,000 PlayStations?

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  1. easy by sporty · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously, what would you do with 17,000 PlayStations?


    Ok guys.. you are making this too easy.

    /beowulf

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    1. Re:easy by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Okay, since this is obviously going to turn into one big beowulf love fest, can anybody do the back of the envelope calculation to find out just how powerful a beowulf cluster of 17,000 PlayStations would be?

      For extra credit you can express the answer in terms of Lord of the Rings:Fellowship of the Ring movies rendered per week.

  2. Easy. by dasunt · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'd take all the playstations and use them to develope Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.

  3. what about eBay? by Numeric · · Score: 3, Funny

    i think they got caught when they tried to sell the PS2s with a quantity of 17000.

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  4. What would saddam do? by metalhed77 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Combine many at once into a grid computing target system for scud warheads!

    what?

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  5. Safety in numbers... by NanoGator · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Seriously, what would you do with 17,000 PlayStations?"

    I'd take comfort in knowing that the odds were in my favor that one of them doesn't skip.

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  6. I don't know about the playstations by rw2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know what I'd do with the playstations, but I learned yesterday that I could use the shipping container as a way to transport about 30EB of data more quickly than over the internet.

    So I might just keep the container and use it to backup all the, er, images in the Chicago area.

  7. $75 - NEW PS2 IN BOX - No Reserve! by TheLASTjay · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can you say eBay?

    =) jay

  8. Must be modeling themselves after a game... by KU_Fletch · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kids today with their robberies and such. Must of been too much of that Grand Theft Train or Railroad Tycoon.

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  9. What to do w/ 17K PS2s? by gamgee5273 · · Score: 2, Funny
    Okay, of course the obvious answer is "Beowulf cluster." But, the next thing said should be a question:

    Where would they find 17,000 Network Adaptors?