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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."
The fact that the consoles don't work won't matter to the criminals that try and sell them. Whether the consoles work or not they'll still get them sold.
And on christmas morning they'll definitely be some broken hearted children when discs cannot be read and consoles won't boot.
Uhm yea I'm sure this is exactly how they planned it. I know when I get robbed I make sure it's only my broken stuff they randomly take in a methodic heist in the middle of the night...
(And yes, revenge - if someone else buys stolen goods, they don't know where it come from - it could have been stolen from your house)
Some receivers of stolen goods aren't aware the wares they're purchasing were stolen. Wouldn't you be pissed to buy a "used" item from a video game shop or pawn shop to find out it's broken? Or the good deal on your dream toy you find on ebay is a little too good to be true? Upon trying to return or have a manufacturer repair you get tangled up in the mess and labeled as a receiver of stolen goods?
Last I checked, sellers of stolen goods more often than not don't advertise "STOLEN GOODS SOLD HERE". Yea we need revenge on the bargain shoppers, they're obviously part of the problem.
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