FriskyTanuki
11-27-2006, 10:11 PM
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3155490As eBay prices for PlayStation 3 continue to fall, the stories of attempts to secure the scarce machine continue to become more ridiculous.
The strangest tale of late involved two GameStop employees, 19-year-olds Tauryn Robert Hodge and Gerald Anthony Keys, reporting a theft of the store's four PlayStation consoles by a "masked gunman" -- except no theft occurred and the two actually hoarded the machines for themselves.
Smells of eBay scalping, doesn't it? But, The Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/204/story/81927.html) article makes no mention of this, and while the police didn't indicate how the plan unraveled, investigators apparently discovered evidence "that wasn't consistent with a robbery," according to Officer Christopher Trim.
Hodge and Keys were both charged with suspected embezzlement, burglary and conspiracy, but Hodge's feet are in hotter water, as he's also facing a charge of filing a false police report. Some spare eBay scalpin' dollars would probably come in handy for lawyer fees right about now.
Dumbasses.
The strangest tale of late involved two GameStop employees, 19-year-olds Tauryn Robert Hodge and Gerald Anthony Keys, reporting a theft of the store's four PlayStation consoles by a "masked gunman" -- except no theft occurred and the two actually hoarded the machines for themselves.
Smells of eBay scalping, doesn't it? But, The Sacramento Bee (http://www.sacbee.com/204/story/81927.html) article makes no mention of this, and while the police didn't indicate how the plan unraveled, investigators apparently discovered evidence "that wasn't consistent with a robbery," according to Officer Christopher Trim.
Hodge and Keys were both charged with suspected embezzlement, burglary and conspiracy, but Hodge's feet are in hotter water, as he's also facing a charge of filing a false police report. Some spare eBay scalpin' dollars would probably come in handy for lawyer fees right about now.
Dumbasses.