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- mywhitenoise, on 08/11/2008, -6/+90Oh *****! It's the Hamburgler!
- Alex2, on 08/12/2008, -0/+56I'd love it if the police in my town was able to spend time on property crime like this.
Stolen laptop? here's a file number so you can claim insurance. - sockpuppets, on 08/12/2008, -2/+57That made me grimace.
- Dracoy, on 08/12/2008, -2/+38Wow that article left out important details and got some of it wrong.
The original article: http://www.salisburypost.com/Area/081008-stolen-ga ...
Guy got a XBOX 360 from the retailer as compensation... - TheGuruStud, on 08/12/2008, -4/+35But they don't spend it on high crime, either. It's more like "We gotta sit here on our asses drinking coffee waiting to bust these ***** trying to make the stoplights b/c we rigged the timing hehe". Or "We'll show these pot smoking hippies who's boss!".
Worthless. I can do better by ramming the drivers that need to be punished and shooting big thugs, but nooooo. haha - hartley, on 08/12/2008, -1/+21This is BAD people.
From the REAL article:
"About a month after Waller's fiancee got the PlayStation at 3-D Games in the Salisbury Mall, Statesville Police came knocking at Waller's home in Cleveland.
Statesville Police Detective Scott Reed told Waller his PlayStation had been stolen in Statesville, and they wanted to know how he got it.
Not only that, the detective took the PlayStation without offering any way for Waller to get back his $350."
and heres the great fanboy quote
"Statesville officials did not charge Waller but confiscated the console.
Waller and Myers went back to 3-D Games to see if the store would return his money. Store personnel initially told him by phone they could not offer a refund.
But later, when he went to the store, employees gave him an Xbox 360.
Waller believes Detective Reed may have asked 3-D to offer him something.
Waller is appreciative of the offer from the store but notes the Xbox isn't nearly as expensive or sophisticated as the PlayStation.
He's still out about $150.
Plus, he said he's just not had luck with Xbox consoles.
"I just want the public to be warned about this place," Waller said.
He said he felt 3-D Games — or any business that buys and sells used merchandise — should have the same checks a pawn shop does when receiving merchandise.
Many pawn shops require employees to obtain a copy of a driver's license or photo ID of the person selling merchandise."
http://www.salisburypost.com/Area/081008-stolen-ga ... - inactive, on 08/12/2008, -4/+22Dugg for Hamburgler flashback.
- twiztidsinz, on 08/12/2008, -3/+20Yeah... what the hell were they doing??
Recovering stolen property.. psh... they should be spending their time harassing people of different color or hassling kids minding their own business and enjoying themselves.
Solving crime is for someone like Batman... - AL7AIR, on 08/12/2008, -0/+17Comment on the linked article by a guy named OMG! Birthday!: "I still prefer the XBox method of tracking the unit through its heat-signature." That actually made me laugh out loud ... and please don't hate me for it, I'll be spending the cold winter nights infront of my Xbox360 cutting up Locust.
- WinterWolf33, on 08/12/2008, -4/+20No. But if you buy a 360...
- B3000, on 08/12/2008, -0/+14Yeah, the gizmondo article completely changed story points around. It wasn't even a pawnshop it was a game store.
- ZeeZee2k, on 08/12/2008, -1/+15was that even a joke?
- PhillAholic, on 08/12/2008, -0/+8And what the hell do you expect her to research? Have you ever been to a pawn shop before?
- Licurgo, on 08/12/2008, -0/+5nobody want your counterfeit stuff
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -1/+6that was really bad.
- IanPR, on 08/12/2008, -2/+7Pretty much everything in pawn shops are as hot as fire.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -1/+6by Sublime = WIN
- thegrantman, on 08/12/2008, -1/+6It's cheaper to get a new cat.
- rnawky, on 08/12/2008, -0/+4The cops should have researched. As far as I know you must supply ID before you can pawn things and they write your information down.
- metalgel, on 08/12/2008, -2/+5i always liked the playground set
http://www.markvergeer.nl/?q=system/files/images/U ... - Joeyp363, on 08/12/2008, -6/+9pawn shop=FAIL
- megamod, on 08/12/2008, -0/+3The article also let us know that she is the BEST girlfriend EVER:
The Cleveland resident works at Food Lion's warehouse complex in Salisbury, but he recently had shoulder surgery after getting hurt at work. Doctors insisted he remain stationary for at least three months.
"My fiancee thought it would be a good gift for me," he said. - NeoHomer, on 08/12/2008, -5/+8Awesome. They should give the victim the option to beat the criminal, not to death, just a good old fashioned beating.
- luckyguy2000, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2it would be nice when every ps3 had a unique id which is sent to the servers and one can see this id from the outside and if its stolen just give the id to the authorities and you get it back soon as someone locks on with your stolen ps3.
but im sure ppl would cry out because of privacy issues. but i think this has been already breached with the trackable psn id. - MJHDigg, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3Wow - If only the police could track down other stolen valuables this easily.
Thanks for digging this article. - bejayel, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Yeah but you cant determine the location from the mac where from an IP you can easily get a name and address on record. It's harder to believe you finding me from my mac than my IP address (actually, my ISP has vowed to never give out personal information without a fight, so even then you would have troubles)
You can pretty much rest assured that running around with random mac addresses wouldent help you at all if the police have your ip address. That is because IP are ISP specific, NOT location specific as you seem to think they are. ISP's buy a block of IP's then give them out to their customers. You are just on a gigantic subnet in the ISP's eyes. - inactive, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2At least he didn't have to spend any money on games.
- sockpuppets, on 08/12/2008, -2/+4We can read. It's not her fault, she thought it was legitimate.
- iamjero, on 08/12/2008, -2/+4I had this happen to a xbox 360 of mine, and I called customer support to see if they could do something like this ( it was a few years ago ).
The answer? A profound no that still resonates within me today.
Good job on busting evil doers Sony. - njcu, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3It just depends on how much they have to do at a given time. If this was a small town they're all over it.
- thirdeyeopen666, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2What fantasy world do you live in? That isn't how things work, thankfully.
- Matri, on 08/12/2008, -2/+4*sigh* You can't even be bothered to read the article TITLE?
- metalgel, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3it is arguably one reason many kids today have grown up claustrophobic
- WilliamAdama, on 08/12/2008, -1/+3that's great, next time tell us more about whether they received a refund since they never knew they were buying a stolen PS3... who reimbursed them?
I can see the RIAA/MPAA taking this event as an example as to why more tracking online is good and asking police to do the same for "stolen" music and movies. - rnawky, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Still they paid for it. They had a receipt.
- sfacets, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2But MAC addresses can be changed quite easily too... (perhaps not on a PS3 though)
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -2/+4Apples:Oranges
- bitterbug, on 08/12/2008, -0/+2Yeah that was a truly awesome comment. Glad you attributed it before someone else copied it for their own digg-self-gratification.
- MrZop, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Is that really worth having your insurance rate increase? also, if your laptop is ever recovered, you'd have to re-pay the insurance money. yes, they will know, cause when you claim it with the insurance company, you also have to include the police file id, so if the police find it, they will inform the insurance company. Less then a year ago i had a break in and had my brand new laptop stolen. my main problem was i got such a good deal on a liquidation laptop that when i got my insurance money, i could no longer get the same deal and had to spend considerably more money. although i did get a better system, but still more money spend.
- mrjofo, on 08/12/2008, -3/+4Cheer up. Have a fry, guy.
- inactive, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1I just use one of those plastic bags from Walmart.
- pigfister, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1PRIVACY!
couple this to the ACTA (google it) treaty where the MPAA and RIAA are trying to make it illegal to import hardware and software from outside your territory (price fixing) and make any multi region tool illegal globally, that sony are key player in the MPAA, RIAA and all trade bodies **aa, bpi ect, dealing with copywrite, and make the drm (secuROM google "mass effect drm")
Then force bd+ on us all with blu-ray, that also reports your unique serial number back to the studios and usage and ip address, sony are at the forefront of locking down digital transitions in the "better for the customer" digital broadcasts, & are heavily pushing SPDC HDMI DRM and blocking analogue signals, and the broadcast flag. - richw, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2i bet it was amateurs, im sure by now every crook has an ebay account
- hartley, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1Yeah, I did my own research a few minutes after posting this one. (at least 5mins obviously) Posted what I found a few posts below.
- pigfister, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1imagine the advertising revenue from this sort of privacy violation, tracking unique serial numbers and matching it to ip addresses!
- tendonut, on 08/12/2008, -1/+2That thing was totally badass. That and the Grimace rocker thingy that collected dozens of teeth from young children.
- CedEx, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1So in the end, who's out their money? The girlfriend? Or does the pawn shop give them their money back? Otherwise, someone is profiting off stolen goods.
- luckyguy2000, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1i guess when you buy something stolen you usually dont get anything back.
- ritter99, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1hm seems like the policemen are now playing PS3 in their breaks ...
- Cockslap, on 08/12/2008, -0/+1***** the riaa?
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