Quote:Greeneville police arrested a man Thursday and charged him with breaking into the Game Stop video game store Jan. 4 by tunneling through a wall after breaking into a vacant adjacent space.

Detective Pat Hankins charged Steven Paul Archer, 33, of 200 Crest Hill Lane, Chuckey, with felony burglary in the offense. According to the warrant, Archer took $288.55 in cash and $5,342 in merchandise from the store.

In the early morning hours of Jan. 4, the warrant said, Archer "forcibly removed the metal back door to an adjacent vacant rental space," then cut a hole in the shit rock wall to gain access to the video game business at 3793 E. Andrew Johnson Highway.

The business is in a strip shopping center just east of Walmart.

Store video surveillance cameras showed a man wearing a ski mask inside the store for a short time after apparently tunneling through a wall.

Quote:Officer Bucky Craft had reported answering an alarm at 1:52 a.m. on Jan. 4 and finding that a rear door to an adjacent store had been pried open with a tool.

Pictures that accompanied the report showed the door hinges pried loose.

Officer Craft said the burglar made several unsuccessful attempts to get through the wall into the game store, but one attempt created a hole near the floor that was large enough to crawl through.

Tools were left behind at the scene, including two flathead screwdrivers, a shit-rock saw and a pair of channel-lock pliers.

Among the items taken were a Wii Fit console, a Wii system, a X-Box 360 and two Playstation game systems, along with a box of games.

All of the items were new and still in boxes.

The report of the incident said store managers provided video that showed a white male wearing gloves, a ski mask and a large coat inside the store.

Videos showed the man as he crawled through a large hole he had made in the wall, according to the report.

Source: http://greenevillesun.com/story/312924

Okay, the consoles need to be physically 'borrowed', but this guy is clearly against piracy (or just wants original packaging).

...or maybe he's onto something:

Quote:Felony burglarly: State offense, 2-12 years in state prison, plus a $5000 fine. Likely at least two counts because two buildings were involved, but I'd expect the sentences to be served concurrently. Quite likely to be plea-bargained, and parole is available.

Criminal copyright infringement under the No Electronic Theft Act: 5 years imprisonment in pound-me-in-the-donkey Federal Prison (plea bargain unlikely and parole unavailable), a fine of up to $250,000, plus civil penalties of up to $100,000 per work infringed.

Neither is likely to be much fun, but it looks like criminal copyright infringement still carries higher penalties. Note that if this is a second offense it goes up to 10 years imprisonment in PMITA Federal Prison.

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Eh, games for me are really poo poo these days. Not worth paying for. And if there was something I wanted I could pirate it anyway.

Probably, I can see why you should 'borrow' two PlayStation systems when you could only 'borrow' one.
Actually the Term PlayStation system is vague. He could've 'borrowed' two Ps3s or a Ps3 and a PSP and so on.

(17/01/2011 10:29 PM)eKusoshisut0 Wrote:  Wow. that's a lot of effort for video games, unless he planned on selling them.

Still, you'd think he'd try stealing stuff like mobile phones if he planned to sell.
For a game, there's a largish box for like $50, whereas a high end mobile could be a few hundred dollars.
In fact, if I were in a game store like that, I'd be stealing PSPs and DSes due to the size/price ratio, not bigger consoles.

In Australia, they never sell old console games, used or not.

(This post was last modified: 18/01/2011 12:39 AM by Sparker.)

^ PS2 games are still being sold.

(17/01/2011 11:42 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  ^ PS2 games are still being sold.

That's the PS2 though, it's still alive.