Daring Console Heist Nets Broken Machines

Thanks to the Indianapolis Star for their article discussing an audacious, but ultimately unfortunate heist of videogame consoles. According to the piece: "In a robbery as scripted as some movie heists, armed bandits struck a Far-Eastside [Indianapolis] warehouse Tuesday evening and used forklifts to load six pallets, containing several hundred of the popular PlayStation 2 and Xbox machines, onto a waiting get-away truck." However, The Indy Channel throws a spanner into the works with their follow-up story, revealing: "Police say many of the video game systems that were stolen from a warehouse Tuesday night were in the process of being returned because they didn't work."

Comments

Re:Darwin

[Smidge204]

Apparently, you either:

a) Didn't RTFA
b) Don't know what the Darwin Awards are about
c) All of the above

Besides, the crooks will still turn a profit. It's the poor shmucks who BUY the consoles off of these guys that'll lose out. I don't think the guy selling out of his van has a return policy...

Did I mention they usually deal in cash only? What are you going to do, call the cops because the STOLEN merchandise you bought is defective and the guy who sold it to you won't refund your money?
=Smidge=

When they pulled the mask off of the thief

[Zarf]

I would have gotten away with it too if it weren't... for those dumb kids and their goony dog! DOH!

Re:Sadly...

[Ricwot]

Children whose parents are criminals for dealing in stolen goods?
Watch me cry :-D,
oh no wait that's not crying!

They only want to...

[Omicron32]

Put Linux on them all and build a beowulf cluster.

At the Best Buy

[Snowmit]

"Hi, uh, I'd like to return some consoles."

"Some consoles?"

"Yeah, I bought some consoles for my family and none of the damn things work! I want a refund."

"OK sir, how many consoles are we talking, here?"

"Uh, about four hundred PS2s and about two hundred Xboxes."

"!!!"

"I have a big family is all!"

It's all part of the plan.

[Snowmit]

Oh, they weren't looking for working consoles. They'd just heard that videogame consoles were bullet-proof and wanted to use them to armour their hideout.