Thieves pinch £750,000 Xbox 360 shipment
This is not an artist impression of any of the thieves in the Xbox 360 heist.
The robbery, no doubt inspired by the oncoming Christmas rush, is the second in a week. A trailer containing £260,000 worth of 360s was stolen at a depot owned by the same firm - Hellman Worldwide Logistics around a week ago. At the moment police are treating the two incidents as separate.
In the most recent incident thieves managed to convince the lorry driver that something was caught under his wheels. Upon pulling over he was taken from the driving seat, beaten and left on the side of the A38 at 5am on Monday morning. The gang, who were initially driving a Range Rover and Rover Saloon then dumped the lorry, obviously minus the gaming consoles.
Peter Stevens, spokesman for the Staffordshire Police made a call for witnesses to step forward:
"We are appealing for information from anyone who is offered these games in suspicious circumstances, such as in a pub, at a car boot sale or off the back of a lorry.”
Our advice to the Staffordshire police is to start looking on eBay, or better yet, the queues of people waiting for a Wii come December 8th! Allegedly the thieves also stole £750,000 worth of Playstation 3's - they walked away with 10 consoles.
Would you report to the police if you noticed a knock off 360 on sale? Or would you snaffle it up like an immoral so and so? Let us know in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyAlthough, two seperate incidents with the same company does sound a bit fishy, wouldn't suprise me at all if the driver was in on it and had himself beaten so it'd look like a robbery, while later on he'd be rolling in the cash.
I would get the 360 (as long as it is cheaper than it would be in Jan sales), then report to police that I have seen some dodgy ones.
So actual value probably a chunk less. But even so, £1m+ from one company? Smell s like cod.
By the way if ya like the story:
http://www.digg.com/hardware/Thieves_Steal_1_5_million_worth_of_360
I presume you meant to write "most recent incident" rather than most regular incident?
Fixed, thanks :)
That would hurt the end user and not the theifs, not to mention create a bunch of negative publicity when MS kills little Billy's 360 that his dad claims "Fell off the back of a truck". MS already got paid for them, they're not going to shoot themselves in the foot for no gain.
I saw that & planned a comment, then I went off to look up fish :(
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Don't beat me, I just got out of bed (Quarter to 4 in the afternoon on a holiday)
Article had nothing to do with the PoS3. That way my bad for getting the 360 and the PS3 confused.
Mum and dads buying for christmas, finds a cheap deal in the local admag/ebay etc..
Its wrong to blame them for going for a cheap deal, unless its blindingly obvious.