I'll tell you something. Whenever I leave the house I wrap a bike lock around as many objects as I possibly can so that they are anchored down and no one can take them. Sure it consumes most of my morning everyday, but I'm secure in the knowledge that my jar of peanut butter is safe and sound if any peanut butter thieves that come around. However, my 360 has never been safe so I spend much of my day pacing back and forth worrying about it. Now, however, I can stop thanks to NewPCGadgets.com's Security Lock and Cable Kit for the 360.
The kit is basically a bike lock, but with a special piece that you place on the back of your 360 so you can attach the wire. Gone are all your fears of thieves stealing your 360 console. Of course they can still take your hard drive off pretty easy, and this isn't going to protect any of your games, and if they were industrious enough to break into your house they'll probably be able to figure out how to grab the system and deal with whatever it is attached to later. Then again they may just fall on the floor laughing so hard because they read this story and know you spent $29.95 on something that's relatively useless. By the time they're done the cops will have probably shown up. See, it really works!
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10:00 AM on 08.02.2009
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Say, isn't that thing on top right over the hard drive button? I think that's meant to be the hard drive lock. It doesnt' look too sturdy, tho.
Then after I'm done doing whatever sick torture I plan up for the Xbox (Most likely a fire) I'll leave a note to rub it in saying "I was just going to take the TV and leave everything else but the lock thing made it look like a challenge! Is there an achievement for overheating it from the OUTSIDE" I'm a sick fuck. =]
When the police get you, I drug them and have Micheal Vick's dogs rape you with a needle full of AIDS and Bird Flu.
And then I'll proceed to stuff a dirty bomb down your throat with a note attached to it that says, "DONT FUCKING TALK ABOUT MY TV LIKE THAT FUCKER."
No one is going to steal something that's going to RRoD in the end anyway.
Also, What Niero said.
That made me laugh so hard. I don't know why though.
Yeah but your forgeting. I'm wearing a mask, I have sandpapered my fingerprints and I HAVE NO DNA! Also there are explosives in the still burning Xbox and the note is laced in anthrax! (I have also taken the time to take a dump on your kitchen floor)
My Father is James Bond. He will find you, and fuck you up.
@Lemon: Gorilla Glue kills 360s.
So does everything else.
Ok man you win. Leave the Bond out of this!
@Super Drybones
If you hug your 360 the excess heat can cause RROD. Mircosoft knew this and has now registered hugging as a input of love for your 360's interior therefore voiding the warranty.
I remember being back in college and doors being left open all the time, rarely locked (who wants to run off to the shower and fumble with keys in a hallway while standing in your towel while the girls from across the way came skipping through?!?!). Before you say "Lock your door, dumbass!", I went to college in South Dakota. 90% of the people at that college grew up less than 200 miles from it, and grew up in a place where even today, leaving the front door of your own house unlocked is still a common occurrence.
Anything can be stolen if they want it bad enough, but I could guarantee this would prevent the random jackass that could (and would) take his monthly saunter through the dorm across the street and spot check open or unguarded rooms until he found something he could slip in, grab, and go almost undetected. Anything with any sort of security measure whatsoever would be overlooked.
People put similar items on their laptops all the time and buckled them to their bunks.
Although it wouldn't deter the professional thief guy who has his heart set on stealing your stuff (as many of you have super-Captain-Obviously pointed out multiple times on the thread) - it would very much deter a potential thief who sees an unpremeditated crime of opportunity. For example, if you're having a party, the lock would probably prevent one of the drunken douchebag guests from walking off with your 360.
That happens *all* the time in school, especially larger ones.
@Razak: You ought to think about stuff harder.
Surely there are way more valuable things in most homes? Right?
My PS3 is insured, so yeah if you want to steal it, let me know in advance and I'll backup the hard drive, it's been getting a little noisy, you'll be doing me a favour.
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