The above picture shows a genius. A criminal mastermind so brilliant it's amazing that he was ever caught. Sitting in a library, with headphones on, a mysterious big bag under his desk, and a newspaper obscuring his hands, he just blends into the crowd, doesn't he? You'd never guess he'd brought an Xbox into the building so he could steal Wi-Fi and play Halo. Oh wait, yes you would!
This man gets points for sheer audacity. He brought a monitor, Xbox, wireless router, external hard-drive and headset into the New York Library so that he could play his videogames like a cheeky bugger. For all his effort and gall, however, it didn't take long before he was rumbled. Perhaps because he was actually screaming down his headset.
"He proceeded to play Quake/Halo/Call of Duty," says the chap who took the above photo. "Some nerd fighter game while yelling out instructions to his 'teammates.'"
Apparently, it took him twenty minutes to set the equipment and game up. It took two minutes for him to be caught and kicked out. Fail.
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9:00 AM on 08.27.2009
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Also...is this stealing? I though library internet was free to use.
Snatching fail out of the jaws of win.
I guess that's the advantage of a small town vs NY.
If this went any further, the library might lose. However, if the guys was making noise, he'd be up for eviction. Libraries would do well to say no online gaming, but if its a public library, which tax payers pay for, how is it wrong?
If he'd brought a PS3 instead, the wireless network card would have been built in/PSN members wouldn't have made him swear/lol failbox.
Bring Xbox to libary = MEH
Bring headset to stop any noise = GOOD
Shout down the mic at top of lungs = RETARDED
Who in their right mind goes to all the trouble of rather crappily hiding all that gear then goes and SHOUTS in their mic? In a freaking library?! There is something wrong with gamers these days.
How is this worse than using a library PC to browse Ebay and Facebook?
+1 for ballsiness and lugging all of that crap to the library. If he was smart, he should've went to the Apple store in Soho; hide out in the theater and steal their wifi all day.
He truly is
It could be cool for social game meet ups.
... though he might have been smarter to simply set up somewhere outside - wifi usually has a decent range.
that made my day.
He wasn't playing 3 games, the guy just couldn't identify it: "He proceeded to play Quake/Halo/Call of Duty, some nerd fighter game while yelling out instructions to his 'teammates.'"
/librarian
Should have used a DS and held it book-ways up.