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9:30 AM on 11.14.2009, Jim Sterling

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Guy steals 100 copies of Modern Warfare 2 photo

#AMAZING #Call of Duty #GameStop #Halt, criminal scum!

If you decided to steal from a GameStop, what would you grab? The expensive consoles? As many games as you can dream of? If you're one man in Meadville, Pennsylvania, the answer is easy -- keep it simple, and just get all the copies of Modern Warfare 2.

This man, currently at large, entered his local GameStop and told the clerk that he had a friend outside with a gun who would shoot anybody attempting to contact the authorities. He then nabbed one hundred copies of Modern Warfare 2, along with a few other items, and made a run for it. It's said he was able to leave wiith $6,900 worth of goods.

I'm amazed at the man's audacity, and almost want to crown him a hero for such a bold move, especially since my cynicism tells me there was no friend, and he lied about the whole gun thing. If he truly walked into a GameStop, pretended some mythical guy was outside with a gun, and walked away with as much Modern Warfare 2 as he could carry, then I say we should not even attempt to bring him to justice, for he has earned his crime.

If you're in Pennsylvania and you're buying a copy of Infinity Ward's latest game from Craigslist, be warned -- you may very well be buying from a legend.

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psycho terror2

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL GENIUS!

Jonny

There you have it. Someone had to compensate for all the wannabe boycotters.

Justice

No no still bring him to me, since I have to commend him on such a successful yet stupid crime. It's insane that he pulled that off especially if as you suggested he had no friend with no gun.

yggogre

How do you even carry 100 copies of a game?

lewness

He just became AN HERO for the Anti-Kotick populace.

Jonny

@yggogre
They keep the games behind the counter in those little sleeves until the time they're purchased now. Or at least that was the case last week when I picked up Dragon Age. I remember being worried the guy was going to scratch my shit up.

amalgamut00

If I am not mistaken that GS is in a mall, but I could be wrong. Honestly it that happened to me I would go against policy.

Oh yeah carrying 100 copies of that game, running, is almost impossible.

Tornik

In associated news, I recently acquired 99 copies of Modern Warfare 2 from a totally legit source, let me know if you're interested in buying one.

bluemeep

+1 for haul size.
+2 for bravado.
-5 for use of threats.

Total score: -2 on the Thiefometer. Garrett would be displeased.

NubPhiSh

not so much criminal genius more like avoiding a bigger sentence since it wont be a armed robbery, also i bet 10 bucks they catch before the end of the month

Jon B

Hopefully he destroys them all in a ditch. I mean, he's screwing over Activision AND Gamestop in one. Double plus.

andycadaver

I want to shake this man's hand and congratulate him on a job well done. He's like a gamer-version of Robin Hood! At least that's how I envision him. I hope he gives a copy to each of his friends, one for his dying uncle, one for the local kid with down-syndrome, three for the whiny brats down the street that keep pestering their mother for one, and two for the newly-orphaned, terminally ill hemophiliac pale-skinned redheaded freckled emotionally-scarred Irish twins living in his apartment complex. Alone. With nothing to do. Guess who's never going to get bored sitting around to be adopted ever again?

DaedHead8

@Jon B

Actually, if I understand the system correctly, Activision was already paid in full for those copies of the game and stands to make more money when Gamestop replenishes their stock.

Los255

Damn, I gotta try this.

Conan-san

That's as many as ten tens, and that's terrible.

Davedude

Well, for the safety of the customers, they had to do what they did. how would you like it if they actually had a guy with a gun outside, and the store clerk was like "lol you're lying" only to have some people killed outside a few seconds later? any threat, even an empty threat like that, must be treated as serious. anyways, I'm betting he's selling them half price or something.

JavTheGreat

No way that's legit. I bet the "Robber" was the cashiers friend or something.

@Jonny: Gamestops only open the copies that they have on the sales floor, the rest are sealed in the back counter.

MA5TER 0051

Sharon Stone is from Meadville, PA. Oh, and so am i.

Palidi

I wanna know if when you say "all the copies", you mean on all the consoles. If so, then, I yell kudos, as well as a "TAKE THAT ACTIVISION!!!" I hope, even if they manage to track him down again, that they never recover those copies or get their moneys worth back(regardless of what it means for the thief).

Sexualchocolate

We were discussing a similar idea on launch night.

He really should have done it as far before the launch as they had stock, imagine the killing you could make on early mw2 copies!

Dao2-SKP

@ sexual

and then imagine how much easier it would be to catch you!

Electrium

Still, you people are acting like you know what it's like to be threatened with a gun. The dude at the store was probably skeptical too, but at a Gamestop int he middle of a mall it's not the kind of thing you can just say "alright, prove it asshole."

@ lewness - Not really...if he only stole one game, that would be the case. But he stole their entire stock. That Gamestop will have to order another shipment of MW2 games, and LOTS of them since it's the week of launch. So GS gets screwed over cause they got robbed, Activision wins because they sell probably another hundred MW2 games.

Trebz

This man deserves a medal. And they say there's no hope for humanity.

Elsa

... but... but... playing video games made him do it! Yup, definitive prove that playing violent games leads to committing crimes! Can't wait to see the Fox news segment!

killerpickles

Still wondering how the dude ran off with 100 copies...

TOEmastro

how much is a blank dvd? 45 cents? losing 100 copies is like losing 50 bucks, big friggin deal. what we pay for is the code ON the disc. but kudos in trying to dent sales

mix

Haha this guy is hilarious.

I guess he did have a friend as one person carrying 100 copies of ANY DVD would be practically impossible.

reindall

It's easy. You take them out of the box and pop 10 DVDs on each finger.

ohno

Hmmm.

ydarkage

AMAZING!!!

Brolsen

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

whateverthismeanstoyou

His taste in game is questionable.

That said, I wonder how he will offload the games without attracting too much attentions. If he is thinking about creating multiple accounts using multiple addresses, his time and effort may not justified selling 100 MW2. If I meet a person who tries to sell me something on the street. I ain't paying 59.99 for whatever he is selling. If heist a truck load of gamestop goodies, I would have been super impressed.

ChronosWing

Wait so this happened in a mall? Where the fuck was mall security during all this? Hell my mall has round the clock police officers, so explain to me how this person got out of the mall with 100 copies of MW2? As soon as he left the store I would of been on the phone with security telling them not to let a guy out with a giant bag full of video games.

neebick

I'm from the area and I can tell you the Gamestop is in a strip mall. You can easily park right outside the door.

Holyetheline

Did they just give him a box full of goodies or what? I need to inform people of the invisible gunman too...

Occams electric toothbrush

I bet he brings in 100 MW2 discs to another Gamestop since the boxes were just slowing him down.

nekobun

And here I thought they'd be more worried about piracy of the PC version.

Mecha Six VII

Pulp Fiction Theft. Awesome.

KingSigy

You want impressive feats of Gamestop robbery. One time this guy entered my store and grabbed about 15 Guitar Bundles of Guitar Hero 3. He made a mad dash out the door, into his car and safely away.

My boss even ran out after him and grabbed onto his legs as the car started moving. Suffice to say, my boss was out for a week with some minor leg injuries.

ikiryou

100 copies for 100 of his best friends so they can play together on Live with their modded consoles. *covers eyes, waits for 100 screams of FFFFFUUUUUUUUU in unison*

DustyBlue

I'm surprised nobody has put a clap gif yet. This guy is fucking legendary.

Starrynight

..At least he got away, for now at least. Wonder if he'll do anything even more stupid like selling them on cragislist under his real name..didn't someone do that before?

Adrock

Wow, almost all positive comments for a lowlife. Interesting. I worked at a game store a long time ago and a few people broke in an stole shelves and shelves worth of empty playstation cases. No games, just cases. Geniuses. This dude was more successful then them, sure, but he's just a tad higher on the idiocy scale.

Quest

360 fanboys have no choice since they must play legit games after that massive ban from M$

majormauser

Jimmy ...Olde Boy you would be pissing in you pants if you attended that event.

Im OK

Are there really that many more video game related crimes happening lately, relative to before, or is it just that they've been happening all along and we're only hearing about them more often now?

TheTruth

One guy carrying 100 games? Right. I smell something funkier than that gamer in front of me in line for his midnight copy of MW2. (off topic: Out of roughly 75 people picking up a COD5 game, 99% were guys, 80% were obese and at least half of them smelled like they hadn't showered in at least two days. They're keeping the stereotype alive in Texas)

Anybody investigating that the employees stole the games and made up the story about some guy saying a guy was outside? Wow, a double fake guy headtrip.

jean2317

Weve only had one major theft at our store. A guy ripped out mini flat screen tv out of the counter and our asm cleared the counter and tackled him. XD Prob the funniest thing o happen in that store, but at least our CoD launch went well and with no lacking of shower ppl!

ninjalegend

I thought the thieves were working behind the gamestop counter. :)

Patryk Godlewski

GameStop in my mall is on the outside, easy accessible. Also you have to note that he probably had a bag of some kind. No one robs a place without a good ol' black garbage bag and color ski mask.

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