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Man steals PS3 from Gamestop in Florida

Posted on November 4th, 2007 at 01:40 EDT

The recent PS3 price drops clearly aren't enough for one man, who stole a console from a GameStop store in Davie, Florida.

A worker at the store, Ericson Santiago, answered some questions on the PS3 for the man before the thief went behind the counter and attempted to take the console from Santiago's hands.

He was then dragged halfway to the door, with console in hand until he thought he saw a gun in the robber's pocket.

The robbery occurred on Friday October 19th.

The $399 PS3 went on sale on November 1st in North America - if only he'd have waited an extra 2 weeks.

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posted 1:02am EDT - November 4th, 2007
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you guys shuld beef up security. As far as this goes he's one of the greats in my pages yessir! u want somethin take it dam right (except for vĂ gina dats wrong)
posted 1:48am EDT - November 4th, 2007
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well i used to work at a circuit city and we lost a ps3 to a customer after like 2 months. no one was at customer service or the front of the store so he just walked behind and took it and walked off with a free ps3. it hapens just message me about the 40inch sony lcd tv that got stolen from our store

posted 2:17am EST - November 4th, 2007
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imagine what that must of looked like LoL. poor dude must of that shiver down his spine after seeing the gun though.
posted 2:22am EST - November 4th, 2007
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i hope his ps3 fails on him, or chews up his blu-ray discs or something bad

posted 4:37am EST - November 4th, 2007
5

no hes obviusly poor he wont be able to afford ps3 games so he'll sell it or just knick the games as well.

posted 5:45am EST - November 4th, 2007
6

Haha...people are going crazy about the PLAYSTATION3 again!

posted 6:01am EST - November 4th, 2007
7

now thats one way to get your hands on a ps3.

posted 6:16am EST - November 4th, 2007
8

Kinda pointless story and an event that happened 2 weeks ago. So I gotta wonder why this news item.

posted 6:44am EST - November 4th, 2007
9

Slow day on the news front hey?

 

What about making up a story about a man who farted whilst waiting in line to pay for his PS3 which he purchased using money he made by selling his hairy buttocks to a dirty little 3 foot Irish dwarf with a 12" penis and a rock hard Wii... He really needed to go to the crapper afterwards but was soooo desperate for a PS3 that he stood there with a big dirty brown grogan hanging half way out of his bum which eventually broke and flopped out onto the ladies shoe who was standing behind him . The lady was 72 years old and almost died from a heart attack had it not been for her steely resolve to stay in line & buy a PS3 to use at home as a super-computer to find a cure for cancer - an illness inflicting her sick maggot infested silky terrier which she keeps warm in the microwave oven at her flat in Liverpool England which she shares with an obese Turkish belly dancer – a woman who also wants a PS3 herself so that she can enjoy porno lesbian Bluray movies with her 72 year old lover with a penchant for wearing a 2 foot strap on Polish salami - sort of a - home made double ended dildo permanently attached under the old ladies dress. But because the 72 year old was having a heart attack the salami fell out onto the floor and was picked up by a passing PS3 loving shop lifter who jumps the counter to hit the store keeper on the head and make off with the PS3 loot. Problem was the salami was covered in lubricants from the old woman so it slipped out of the thief's hand and went flying out the shop window and smashing the windscreen of a bus packed with drunk Italian soccer fans traveling a good 20 miles per hour over the speed limit. The salami passes through the windscreen and lodges in the cranial cavity of the driver killing him instantly. The bus drives into the shop and explodes killing 31 stocked PS3's waiting for collection by eager fans – an utter tragedy! In addition; 4,722 stocked Nintendo Wii's were also injured in the blast.

 

That would be a better story...

 

posted 7:52am EST - November 4th, 2007
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lol Gamestop got PWND!

posted 8:23am EST - November 4th, 2007
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All gamestop employees should have a concealed shotgun just incase of emergency.

posted 8:57am EST - November 4th, 2007
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psn id: gingo... clearly this guy needs to get a life and save some money to buy one

posted 9:13am EST - November 4th, 2007
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i dont like xbotstop (gamestop) any way robber if your here now that you got  your ps3 add me to your friends list so we can laugh about the look on his face as you drug him to the door

posted 9:44am EST - November 4th, 2007
14

my local gaming shop had 5 ps3s stolen. and the robbers had guns.

 

posted 10:07am EST - November 4th, 2007
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All gamestop and EB games employees are scrubs. He tried to stop the robber from stealing the PS3 because it would have counted as a PS3 sale.

 

That herb must have been a 360 fanboy employee

posted 10:24am EST - November 4th, 2007
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Chances are he's justgoing to take it and sell it on ebay or some nonsense. You dont commit violent robbery to hang on to what you stole you do it because you;re desperate for something else...probably crack.

posted 10:26am EST - November 4th, 2007
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he prob read on my website : buy it rent it or even steal it - a ps3 you must own. lol

posted 11:57am EST - November 4th, 2007
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if i were employed there (in which i am, pt) yooouuuuu wouldn't have gotten that ps3 over my cold dead and flabtacular body! LOL
posted 12:23pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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I WANT A NINTENDO Wii NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW

posted 12:39pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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If someone gets online with a stolen PS3, does Sony have the ability to trace it? It seems to me that it wouldn't be that diffcult.

posted 12:41pm EST - November 4th, 2007
21

@ Snakeboy,

Don't waste your money....

posted 2:36pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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People just cant get enough PS3. Its too friggin sweet. I bet the guy goes back for a copy of Ratchet and Clank

posted 2:51pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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oh, i kno where that is

posted 3:09pm EST - November 4th, 2007
24

I want this guy's PSN ID,he'll be great in KANE & LYNCH co-op.

@ cleaner,is your source reliable j/k

posted 4:15pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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i was thinking of doing the same thing but i bought it damn it!! that suxx's

posted 5:45pm EST - November 4th, 2007
26

He didn't try to take a 360 from the stacked up display in the middle of the store?

Now that's saying something.

 

 

(at least around here the Gamestops have had displays stacked up of 360's in the middle or towards the back of some of their stores.)

 

P.S.  -  Does PSU need a "Florida" tag like Fark?

posted 7:07pm EST - November 4th, 2007
27

This is bad news?  Wouldn't this be good good that another person became part of the PS3 install base? (albeit not paying for it)  Sony already got its money from GameStop so I think it's all good.  All the people I've seen work there are 360 fanboys anyway.

Thanks for the laugh Cleaner.

posted 8:04pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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at least the theif picked the right console lol

posted 9:30pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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well if u want to rob a game store, game stop is the best ones to hit. those stores get robbed on a weekly basis

posted 11:04pm EST - November 4th, 2007
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sad

posted 12:49am EST - November 5th, 2007
31

Man where is a taser when you need it? Sheesh I would've tasered his a** so bad lol.

posted 4:17am EST - November 5th, 2007
32

wow, that sucks on balls, man, i would so quit after that. >.> 

posted 5:56am EST - November 5th, 2007
33

Theives will ALWAYS be thieves.There is nothing you could do about that.

posted 6:26am EST - November 5th, 2007
34

@ the Cleaner.............Wicked, loved it

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