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Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the digging-for-treasure dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Life imitates Minecraft: Computer game piracy is big business, but there are still those who prefer to get their games the old-fashioned way: by digging a tunnel into their local games shop and making off with as much stock as they can carry. At least, that's the slightly bizarre approach taken by a man from Greeneville, Tennessee, who was arrested late last week after being caught tunneling into his local GameStop store from an empty adjoining building." Note that the link is thin, and the sources are behind logins and subscription links, so please post better URLs if you can find them.

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  1. Re:Done before by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ocean's 1.

  2. Don't be so hard on him.. by n1hilist · · Score: 5, Funny

    He was just playing Dig Dug ;)

  3. Video games at fault by east+coast · · Score: 5, Funny

    The boy just played far too much Minecraft.

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  4. Re:Jeez by Tr3vin · · Score: 4, Funny

    They don't collect paychecks. They have to tunnel into GameStops to get their games. Why do you think there are no good links provided?

  5. Piracy != Theft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh wait.

    1. Re:Piracy != Theft by cskrat · · Score: 4, Funny

      Eye patches are just for pirates that don't know how to treat a parrot.

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  6. Re:Done before by DurendalMac · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe so, but the real questions is...

    Did they have Battletoads?