Four Men Arrested for Stuffing Games Down Pants

[siliconchampion]

I worked at best buy for a short time (for obvious reasons). The cases that BBY slips over their games can be removed near instantaneously with the use of a flat head screwdriver.

 

[scook9]

Unfortunately stealing form stores like this is not that hard. We had alot of problems with it at Microcenter when I worked there. Being understaffed makes it that much worse. You can get around the security scanners by just putting the devices in lead-lined bags that block the radio signal.

We had like $200k get stolen the year I worked there (over the whole year, not at once). Bear in mind the stores does millions and millions a year in volume so that did not bankrupt us, but it obviously pissed us off. And like mentioned, we cannot physically confront them even if they are caught - really making it harder.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]kingnoobe[/nom]Ya back, and speeding is illegal to.. You better never go 1 mph over the speed limit our I hoped your fined 80,000$ for every mile over.. Freaking retard.. When you can prove I would buy it, then you can say it's theft. Because more often then not I torrent first, buy later. As I mainly play games for the multiplayer part, but single player gives you a hint.[/citation]
Dude, I really should have to explain it, but there are these things called irony, satire and sarcasm. Don't usually transfer well when typed out but no-one else had a problem spotting it...

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]taiso[/nom]happens all the time where i work. sometimes they're crafty enough to work in a group, while one 'customer' distracts us the other guys grab the items. sometimes they dont even need a magnet key to open the security cases...they just dash to the front door. sometimes we're able to get a description of the car/license plate, other times we're able to deter them from taking them by catching them on the act. but ususally if they're used to doing this for a living they really wont care who stands in their way. and honestly we're not allowed to (or willing actually) confront them physically. so it is good to hear they sometimes get caught.[/citation]

Why wouldn't you confront them? Before college I worked in a grocery store and they used to give a 100$ bonus for every thief that we caught. I was stalking every suspicious mofo when I had a break. None of them ever tried anything stupid, good for them since I always carry a knife.

 

[geminireaper]

[citation][nom]TommySch[/nom]Why wouldn't you confront them? Before college I worked in a grocery store and they used to give a 100$ bonus for every thief that we caught. I was stalking every suspicious mofo when I had a break. None of them ever tried anything stupid, good for them since I always carry a knife.[/citation]

The reason is that if you physically confront them you and the store can get sued. Yes it does happen and the culprits do win. Most large stores have started have banned physical action by employees. They would prefer to lose the $50 item vs a lawsuit from the thief or from the employee who may get hurt. It sux but thems the rules. BTW i dont know how long ago you worked in a store but now if you were to be an employee and carry a knife you would get fired for having a weapon on your person. Some companies wont even let you confront someone suspected of stealing. My fiancee used to work at a store that unless you seen them do it with your own eyes you couldnt even breach the subject. AKA they would go into the fitting room with 5 items and come back out with 4. My gf confronted the person and the customer accused my fiancee of harrassment and she got in trouble. So stupid.

 

[jgiron]

They stole over 9K of games and someone they know has 50K to bail them out? I have no words for these idiots.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]geminireaper[/nom]The reason is that if you physically confront them you and the store can get sued. Yes it does happen and the culprits do win. Most large stores have started have banned physical action by employees. They would prefer to lose the $50 item vs a lawsuit from the thief or from the employee who may get hurt. It sux but thems the rules. BTW i dont know how long ago you worked in a store but now if you were to be an employee and carry a knife you would get fired for having a weapon on your person. Some companies wont even let you confront someone suspected of stealing. My fiancee used to work at a store that unless you seen them do it with your own eyes you couldnt even breach the subject. AKA they would go into the fitting room with 5 items and come back out with 4. My gf confronted the person and the customer accused my fiancee of harrassment and she got in trouble. So stupid.[/citation]
Differant places have differant by-laws, such as if managemet reserving the right to ask anyone to leave. If you ask them 3 times and they still refuse you are allowed to use reasonable force and and violence you receive can be dealt with under self defence.
Example?
An obvious crackhead walks in stalking electrical goods
Security walks up and says, "pleasecanyouleavepleasecanyouleavepleasecanyouleave", and before the crackhead has time to say "huh, wtf?" he is lifted off the ground and thrown out the door.
See you in court, crackhead.

 

[tommysch]

[citation][nom]geminireaper[/nom]The reason is that if you physically confront them you and the store can get sued. Yes it does happen and the culprits do win. Most large stores have started have banned physical action by employees. They would prefer to lose the $50 item vs a lawsuit from the thief or from the employee who may get hurt. It sux but thems the rules. BTW i dont know how long ago you worked in a store but now if you were to be an employee and carry a knife you would get fired for having a weapon on your person. Some companies wont even let you confront someone suspected of stealing. My fiancee used to work at a store that unless you seen them do it with your own eyes you couldnt even breach the subject. AKA they would go into the fitting room with 5 items and come back out with 4. My gf confronted the person and the customer accused my fiancee of harrassment and she got in trouble. So stupid.[/citation]

I live in Canada and that was like 8 years ago. Here you cannot sue people for that kind of stuff. As far as the weapon is concerned, they are not patting down employees, or anyone for that matter. When I worked there I had a box cutter and a 3inch folding tanto. Its not like I would be showing it off for no reason, its purely defensive. Most of the time we collected the bonus by calling the police, telling the manager and talking to the dumb ass until the cops would show up.

 

[Guest]

"Someone should really tell them about torrents."

You cannot really sell torrents for cash like these people probably intended on doing.

 

[wishmaster12]

Maybe ill steal microsoft developer network windows 7 keys and sell them for 50 buck a shot on ebay and the net and get all the poeple kick off windows to get mad at me and ask for a refund that i spent the money buying a 5970

 

[wishmaster12]

sorry for that last post "all ready done" damit!

 

[mikem_90]

I can just see the Ebay listing: "Super Mario Galaxy 2, $29 New, only touched a penis once."

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]Trashit[/nom]Dammit u beat me to it lol. I wonder how many torrents you can fit down your pants....[/citation]
With a 1TB 2.5" HDD, I'd say about 200 games (assuming each game is ~4GB ISO). :lol:

 

[jerreece]

[citation][nom]guanyu210379[/nom]That many in a pant? Stupid store![/citation]

They steal several from each store. Hence the list of Toys R Us stores in the car. They didn't take them all from one store.

 

[jerreece]

If you folks think this is bad, we had a group of heavyset women who were on a run for a while down in Tucson, AZ. They would hit up shoe stores, and stuff shows in their pants, under their shirts, etc. Anywhere they could hide them among their folds of fat.

They went on a spree for quite a while before they were caught.

 

[doive1231]

They've obviously given false names. A mick, two hispanics and a black guy. C'mon.

 

[thillntn]

So when is a FIRMWARE coming out to detect stolen games and ban them too???? If fairuse isn't acceptable then maybe each game should be authenticated??? lol

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Wow, they got away with stealing a lot of games.

 

[duk3]

They would steal over 9000 dollars worth of games.

 

[delayedreaction]

Aren't game discs usually removed and stored away first before the cases are put on display? That's what happens where I live anyway...