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- Vineman, on 10/12/2007, -3/+165So THATS where Amazon got them!
- Lyanto, on 10/12/2007, -2/+98$1.5 million woth of X360? That's one helluva LAN party.
- sinner0423, on 10/12/2007, -3/+81I smell turkey, actually.
Is it true that every single criminal exploit in the UK is like a Guy Ritchie movie?
This could've been the work of Soap, Eddie, Tom and Bacon. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+61they can trace it by serial numbers
- MadMan6680, on 10/12/2007, -3/+57Definitely a plot by Sony to hinder 360 sales...
- Tracon, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50no but microsoft would be able to check it if you hooked up to xbox live
- andyrobo60, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39I'm in the UK, Where do I go to by my cheap "off the back of a lorry" 360.
- MechaFenris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34It's like a truck, only British. ;)
- compu73rg33k, on 10/12/2007, -5/+35It smells like people realize the 360 is in high demand and if they steal a whole lot of them, they can make a huge profit. That's what it smells like.
- dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27"are you kidding these are hundereds of thousands of xboxs there ought to be an idiot that buys one."
hundreds of thousands of xbox 360s? Not even close. Lets do a little math...Even if they were all the $400 version, it's still not even close to 100,000 units.
$1,500,000 divided by $400 = 3750 xbox 360s.
$1,500,000 divided by $300 = 5000 xbox 360s.
This isn't that big of a hit.
Do you really think 1 truck can hold 100,000 xbox 360s? - MechaFenris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+28We found our first SUSPECT!
AHA! J/K ;)
Man, Scotland Yard should be paying me... - toppgun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+24a truck. haven't you played CoD2 on your x360?
- killamanjero, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18They should sell them at $100
- surfit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19Those aren't near UK prices, add around $100 to $150 per unit to get a better picture.
- LuCiFer6, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17It's another name for truck.
Boot = Trunk
Bonet = Hood
We love the Brits - Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21Try google, ignoramus.
- gregmo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16even if the xboxs are disabled/tracked the people buying them wont know that until they've already bought them - the thieves, if not stupid (highly unlikely), have already won.
- rick2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16"Allegedly the thieves also stole £750,000 worth of Playstation 3's - they walked away with 10 consoles."
10 consoles = £750,000 ? lol - Four20, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21@miz
dunno about you, but if i bought an xbox off the 'black market' i sure wouldn't be getting the serial # checked.
that and they probably scratched all of them off - Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -3/+16You mean "Britain, Britain, Britain..." ?
yet I don't see how the show relates to this - jeremychoi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13$1,500,000 worth of xbox's / $300 core xboxs =
5000 core units (or 3750 units with 20gb HD) - wyrdness, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12You're obviously not a criminal mastermind then. Firstly the PS3 isn't being launched in Britain (& the rest of Europe) until March. So it would be pretty difficult to steal a truckload of them here. Secondly rare items like PS3s appearing on the black market would attract a lot more attention than common items like 360s.
- MYarms, on 10/12/2007, -10/+21The thieves were probably pissed when they found out that it was 360's on the truck and not ps3's.
- SlvrEagle23, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11If these guys aren't careful they'll force us into the worst hell of our lives...XBox Genuine Advantage.
- Alaerus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorry
- Covenant9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah...I caught that little dig on Sony as well.
Funny stuff. - Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Thief #1 "Look, I just snatched a lorry full of PS3's"
Thief #2 "They are not PS3's you bloody idiot, they are Xbox360's! Just like last time!"
Theif #1 "Doh!" - DPyro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5They probably had insurance on the freight.
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -11/+17The only thing fishy here is the word lorry. /ignorant American rant
- Flinty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9This happened pretty close to where i live.
- HanSolo69, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6man, a $1.5 million worth of PS3s would have been a lot lighter.
- shahruz84, on 12/17/2008, -1/+7lock stock and two smoking xboxes
- trieste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6You say Fitzfan - we say Wanker
- protogenxl, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Sounds Like the work of the gang known as "The Gang"
Where is Spiny Norman when you need him? - AngryOx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6They're going to use the profit to upgrade their import sport cars. Damn you Fast and the Furious! How many more lives must you destroy!
- Atomic1fire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4thats what happens when you don't have guns
thieves make big heists and you cant shoot em - scalebane, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5You can't steal what Sony isn't shipping.
- surfit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4A core XBox 360 in the UK is closer to $400, with $550 for the premium. So that's about a thousand less units for each value you've provided.
- epoch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4At retail. It's probably more if it's valued at cost.
- 9mmCensor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Recent heist value of 1.5mil.
Two heists total value of 2mil. - jcliff29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think you'll find it would be the couriers / insurance company out of pocket.
At least until the next rate rise. - treelovinhippie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Sony has hired goons?
- SintraKikuta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dinsdale...
- the7dwarfs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was wondering when ANOTHER Amazon joke would appear.
Now I know. - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"It is WAY too time/money-consuming to add a different firmware/software for ...each 360"
I see you don't know a thing about how MS's Xbox security works...
Each Xbox has its own unique key, the 360 is no different. If they didn't do that they couldn't 'protect gamers' by banning all the modders' consoles from Live. - Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yeah, if the driver and the gang all had guns the driver could've defended himself...
- sirdaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Cant go.. any further.. cameras.. holding me.. back..
I don't think some people care if they are caught on camera. As long as they get what they came for. - Chesh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sony sure is getting desperate.
- toxicredm, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@ MYarms:
Yeah, then their take would have been in the billions! ;) - skull24, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3So, thats where Amazon got those $100 360s.
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