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Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games
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."
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Someone's been watching a few too many bank heist movies.
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.
Isn't that your job?
"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."
Er, no? That's what I expect a story-poster to do for me? Or the editors? You know, those *paid* people?
Might as well say "Vague story happens but you can only read about it on other sites - help us do our job and find other people's coverage so we can post the link here!"
Seriously, as the days go buy, there's less and less reason to come to this site, and less and less reason to pay for a subscription.
He was just playing Dig Dug ;)
The boy just played far too much Minecraft.
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
I'm guessing he did this with the intention of selling the games on and profiting. It certainly can't have been for his own enjoyment.
Unless, of course, there's some strange pleasure that he gets from owning 500 used copies of Madden and 500 used copies of Black Ops (plus maybe, if he's really lucky, a single new copy of Madden as well).
I had to read the post twice to get that the OP was referring to a real, not a virtual, tunnel.
Even from the free summary of the above article it doesn't look like he "tunneled" at all. He broke through a wall from an adjacent and empty shop. The press just chose the word "tunnel."
Much less impressive.
If he had been caught "pirating" those games, then it would be game over. He would be in debt forever with the multimillion dollar fine. But after this little burglary he will soon be out of jail and all out of debt, ready to enjoy life again.
Pay attention people: This is what actual theft looks like.
You still can't download game consoles. The article pokes fun at the thief's stone-age method used to steal games. OK, but I would imagine that he would be after the highest ticket items in the store - consoles of every flavor. Seems like he had access to a shared, perhaps basement, wall and basically tired to knock a hole in it. Hardly a tunnel. When I think of a tunnel I think border crossing feats of rogue engineering like this.http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2006/07/14/bc-pot-tunnel.html
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Found a link to the local paper. Not that hard to find. But light on the details.
Oh wait.
Perhaps his next modification to this horrible website code will be automatic, unattended story submissions.
How would anyone spot the difference?
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
Nope, it was a Japanese game and was named after a hockey puck. The Americans were worried about kids making the P an F, so changed the name on import. The UK cabinets marked "Puck-man" didn't come via America.
It's a downright disgrace that they still call hockey pucks "pucks" because someone might call them "fucks". They don't, but they might. And that's disgraceful.
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The dude just busted a hole in the wall. In my world, a tunnel goes underground, and I think the reason the story seemed so good is that was inferred.
Just last week in that vacant store front there used to be a chapter of the "Red Headed League". They organized events for the fiery headed, like myself. Shame that it has come to this.
It wasn't so much "tunneling", as it was "breaking through the drywall from the adjacent store", which he'd forcibly entered by prying a door open. Pretty sloppy job.
I had a conversation with an avowed American "patriot" railing against the draconian laws of countries like Iran where infidelity can get you stoned to death. My counter was similar to this example. You Westerners have even more draconian laws that don't even make sense. In the Western world, copying and idea will get you thrown into prison and bankrupted. And in a capitalistic society, being bankrupted is equivalent to an amputation of the limbs or even death. It seems, copyright infringements is the equivalent of religious heresy in secular capitalist countries.