Man Tunnels Into GameStop, Steals Games 210
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."
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.
Re:Eh? (Score:3, Informative)
http://news.google.de/news/story?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=Greeneville,+Tennessee&ncl=dm5qbkfTcoN9UCMSJMUI6rFVH6iCM&channel=suggest [google.de]
Re:Done before (Score:4, Informative)
You get a lot more for a game in original packaging with unused serial number than you do for a CD-R labelled with a marker pen and crack instructions in a text file somewhere.
Re:Eh? (Score:5, Informative)
It would appear that Slashdot is open sourcing its editing, and is now in perpetual Beta.
Re:Eh? (Score:5, Informative)
Here... a video [wate.com] of the heist.
Found link... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Done before (Score:4, Informative)
NOT a Tunnel! (Score:5, Informative)
According to TFA: (Score:5, Informative)