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Stealing Legos for fun and profit?
Mad_Rain writes "Every nerd I know had (or still has) a fairly extensive Lego collection. But I don't think most would go so far as to steal $200,000 worth of Legos. When police arrived to carry away the evidence from his home, they needed a 20-foot-long truck. They found in the car of the accused a laptop computer that had a list of Target stores that he was planning to defraud along with the mapping software on how to get there."
So I guess the charges STUCK? :)
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A Target security guard stopped Swanberg at a Portland-area store on Nov. 17
And he would have gotten away with it too... if it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog!
I'm completely and utterly confused as to its worth and merit. And for me, that's a first here.
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and the evidence will just keep stacking up against him.
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So that's like, what, four starwars sets?
But I don't think most would go so far as to steal $200,000 worth of Legos. When police arrived to carry away the evidence from his home, they needed a 20-foot-long truck.
Why do you need a truck to move 10 lego sets?
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I just realized why there are so few replies to this story so far: everyone here is out trying to figure out how they can get their hands on $200,000 worth of legos. I could build my own home addition with all those; that would be awesome.
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"...a list of Target stores that he was planning to defraud..."
Can you really blame him? The store's name is Target. Their logo is that of a target. Their mascot is a dog with a bull's-eye encircling one eye, looking as though it's in an abusive relationship. Oh, and those damn commercials. Clearly, this company is just asking for abuse.
So THIS is really what went wrong with Lego Mindstorms... this guy has been stealing all the sets!
Federal and state authorities will move aggressively to ban mapping software.
Sheriff Clancy Wiggum noted a sharp increase in teenagers and middle management types who have been recently arrested with print outs of maps taken from online sources like Google.Com and Yahoo.Com. "Easy access to information like this has to stop!" said Sheriff Wiggum, noting that from now on only donut stores and brothels should be shown on maps.
I wonder if this is what he looks like now...
And the word "ninja" comes from Japanese, which lacks plurals (sort of). The correct way to talk about multiple of the assassins would be "lots of ninja attacked me". Doesn't stop me from saying "ninjas", though.
(shudder) You'd better watch out for the Grammar Ninja.
With all those lego bricks, they surely could've just built one. ;)
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Oh great, so every LEGO brick will have it's own RFID tag ... and roll on IPv6 and every LEGO brick can then have it's own IP address, and a website with a picture of itself.
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You're SO right. Now you'll have to exuse me while I install Linux on all my boxen. I mean, I don't want to get virii.