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EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time

aesoteric writes "An EMC test engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $1 million worth of kit from his employer. He reportedly stole the unspecified goods from the storage giant's North Carolina factory using 'a small bag' to smuggle the kit out before selling it on the internet under a pseudonym."

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  1. The estate of Johnny Cash is suing him... by EXMSFT · · Score: 4, Funny

    for copyright infringement.

  2. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by DWMorse · · Score: 4, Funny

    A highly-developed and technological Knight Industries Two Thousand series motor vehicle.

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  3. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by 3vi1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kit = pieces of equipment.

    If he'd taken it all, it would have been kit and caboodle.

  4. reminds me... by neokushan · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...of a tale my dad used to tell me when I was young.

    I don't know the full details, so it could be made up, the details could be wrong or it might have actually been like a TV show or something, but anyhoo.

    A guy who worked in a factory would leave every day with a wheelbarrow full of rubbish. One of his bosses was sure he was stealing something, so every now and then he'd search the wheelbarrow and come up dry - rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish. The manager got so frustrated, he started searching every single day and still found nothing.
    Eventually, the guy figured out what he was stealing - wheelbarrows.

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  5. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by hedwards · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, Johnny Cash stole an entire car one piece at a time over a couple decades, if his music is any indication.

  6. Huh. Guess that explains . . . by Hero+Zzyzzx · · Score: 3, Funny

    this EMC Celerra NS model 120-121-122-123-124-125-126-127-128-129-130 NAS I just bought off craigslist.

  7. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd sure hate to lose my equipment while getting my kit off.

  8. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by rkww · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here's a link to the same story in American

  9. 2 Mill by dark+grep · · Score: 4, Funny

    $2M of EMC equipment - wow, that's like five hard drives!

  10. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by LucidBeast · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' kit It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 kit

  11. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by garyebickford · · Score: 4, Funny

    You're talking about my dog, you insensitive clod!!

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  12. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course, once the parts were reassembled, the result was an EMC product, which has no actual value.

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  13. Re:Im sorry - define Kit by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Australians got it from a British site, which helpfully changed the Americanism equipment to something more British.