How not to rob Richard 'Lord British' Garriott

by Alexander Sliwinski { Mar 20th 2007 at 4:00AM }

Richard "Lord British" Garriott could not have designed a more perfect ending to this little chapter in his game called life. Recently Garriott, who is currently working on Tabula Rasa, was the victim of a burglary. Some youths broke into Garriott's vacation complex, drinking over $5000 in alcohol and having their way with the property. The little felons would have gotten away with it too -- if they hadn't left the digital camera used to document the night's events behind!

"We were joking to ourselves about tomorrow morning, when they wake up with a hangover, they're going to wonder where that camera is ... This is one of those Darwin-style kind of awards, where people leave the self-incriminating evidence behind at the scene," Garriott said to Austin's KVUE. This is the second break-in on Garriott's property in two years. We're expecting him to either build a moat around the property with a dragon or have it patrolled by some giant mechanized death machine.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

John Z @ Mar 20th 2007 6:46AM

The best punishment for these jokers would be to have them do motion-capture for Tabula Rasa's animation staff.

After all, rag-doll corpse physics is so very hard to get right....

Matt B @ Mar 20th 2007 10:02AM

$5000 is a lot of booze.....wow! Not only to drink but just to have on hand. 80

Diskoboy @ Mar 20th 2007 10:23AM

No he makes to install multi-level dunegon labyrinths that lead to his home. Filled with the usual rats, skeletons, slime, treasure chests, etc...

karmaghost @ Mar 20th 2007 11:37AM

I wouldn't call it a "Darwin" moment; they didn't die or were prevented from reproducing permanently. However, it was stupid, but they likely forgot the digicam because they were so wasted on $5000 worth of booze. Were they drinking MacCutcheon (Lost reference, anyone?)?

joe smith @ Mar 21st 2007 1:40PM

Ok -- not the brightest thieves... but he had $5000 worth of booze there???? What kind of vacation complex are we talking about?

calthaer @ Mar 20th 2007 3:23PM

DEATH TRAPS IN CASTLE BRITTANIA FTW!

Shagittarius @ Mar 20th 2007 12:24PM

Its a good thing he wasn't home or he might have gone down to address them and walked right through the fires they had set thinking he was invincible.

Whirlo @ Mar 20th 2007 2:04PM

Or dropped that damn plaque he stands under everday on his head.

Tom @ Mar 20th 2007 5:28PM

They stole and drank $5000 worth of property. Not just $5000 of booze. I hope someone tells them that the last time someone broke into Richard Garriots house they got shot. Maybe that would detour them for next time.

LaughingMan @ Mar 20th 2007 10:14PM

Drinking or not, people who go out of their way to document their own crime....I mean it's unbelievable. About the only way you can get out of this is if Phoenix Wright is your attorney and does some kind of "BUT HOW COULD HE BREAK THE LIQUOR CABINET......WHEN HE IS LEFT HANDED!" voodoo crap. Too bad that's just a video game.

Don't drop the soap, tough guys.