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.
Contest:
9:30 AM on 11.14.2009
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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.
Oh yeah carrying 100 copies of that game, running, is almost impossible.
+2 for bravado.
-5 for use of threats.
Total score: -2 on the Thiefometer. Garrett would be displeased.
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.
@Jonny: Gamestops only open the copies that they have on the sales floor, the rest are sealed in the back counter.
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!
and then imagine how much easier it would be to catch you!
@ 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.
I guess he did have a friend as one person carrying 100 copies of ANY DVD would be practically impossible.
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.
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.
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.
My favorite local videogame store had a break-in last Spring, but luckily the security system prevented them from getting very far or taking anything. If they had succeeded, would you have written an article about what "heroes" the robbers were? If they had done it cleverly, does that mean they've "earned their crime"?
If you want to applaud the cleverness or the audacity of criminals, there are plenty of rapists and muggers out there who commit crimes every day. The next time you're staring down the barrel of a gun, remember that you glorified criminal scum.