Crime and punishment: Thieves make off with Sonic the Hedgehog

by Ludwig Kietzmann { Apr 5th 2007 at 8:55PM }

Though the choices that lead one down a path of crime are rarely considered to be wise, the weekend actions of an unknown number of thieves seem to imply that one bad turn often leads to another. The Argus reports that UK police were called to "Currys" after £1,700 worth of PlayStation 3 games were discovered to have illegally departed the store, presumably tucked inside someone's jacket, pants or some other article of clothing that would result in awkward movements.

Police expect the kleptomaniacs to cash in on current PS3 euphoria and either attempt to gain refunds elsewhere or sell the game to unsuspecting folks. Sadly, it looks like crime might not fully pay on this occasion, as the robbers' loot included three copies of Splinter Cell: Double Agent, two copies of Ridge Racer 7, four copies of World Snooker Championship 2007 and, err... four copies of Sonic the Hedgehog.

Being unable to sell those to any normal human beings, said ne'er-do-wells will likely attempt to play the game and then promptly turn themselves in. You get what you pay for, lads.

[Via PSX Extreme]

Tags: Crime, Double Agent, DoubleAgent, Ridge Racer, Ridge Racer 7, RidgeRacer, RidgeRacer7, Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog, SonicTheHedgehog, Splinter Cell, Splinter Cell Double Agent, SplinterCell, SplinterCellDoubleAgent, World Snooker Challenge, WorldSnookerChallenge

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

hancock @ Apr 5th 2007 9:00PM

haha hope they enjoy that "great" lineup of games. ;)

arrrgh @ Apr 5th 2007 9:42PM

To play on their "great" media player...i mean game console

Ryuukuro @ Apr 5th 2007 9:49PM

Screw stealing. Look at that CAKE!!! Someone tell Bonnie!

RobT @ Apr 5th 2007 9:53PM

so if i'm doing the math right here that means that each game cost £130.76? (1700/13=130.76)If this is true and there aren't other games missing from this list, thats ridiculous and i feel very sorry for all the ps3 gamers in britian. there is no way the numbers in this story can be right.

AssemblyLineHuman @ Apr 5th 2007 9:59PM

RobT:
From the original article:
"Among those stolen were four copies of World Snooker Challenge 2007, four copies of Sonic The Hedgehog, two copies of Ridge Racer 7 and three copies of Splinter Cell Double Agent."

So those aren't the only games, despite the wording in this article.

AssemblyLineHuman @ Apr 5th 2007 10:00PM

Also, I'm disappointed to see that The Argus doesn't italicize game titles.

Ludwig Kietzmann @ Apr 5th 2007 10:03PM

Those weren't the only games -- merely the ones specifically mentioned. I hope I've made it clearer now.

If 13 games amounted to that much, I think the store would be the real criminal here. :)

sean jones @ Apr 6th 2007 7:40AM

I'm a little perturbed at your decision to put Currys, one of the biggest UK electronics outlets, in quotation marks, as if it's some cooky little corner shop with a crazy name. Just because it's not American like "Best Buy" or "Gamestop" doesn't mean some people haven't heard of it. And I don't think those who haven't need to be patronised - or do you think that your readership is dull enough to think that police would be called to a series of giant indian meals?