Crook hides cash in gutted consoles

by Alexander Sliwinski { Jan 29th 2008 at 5:30PM }

Authorities discovered £12,000 ($23,758 USD) stuffed inside four game consoles belonging to a man suspected of running an illegal PSP memory card and chipping business. Videogamer reports that during the raid at the man's home in the Tower Hamlet section of London, authorities started taking apart consoles with the expectation of finding illegal mod chips -- instead they found bags of cash where the hard drive should have been.

I case you're wondering, the cash was stored in one original Xbox holding £5,925, and three PS2s with £2,835, £2,025 and £1,425. It seems no next-gen consoles were harmed in the implementation of the illegal business.

Tags: illegal, piggy-bank, raid, tower-hamlet

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

NATO_Duke @ Jan 29th 2008 5:32PM

Oh come on now - who here doesn't use their old XBox for the same thing?

Show of hands!

FidliousWong @ Jan 29th 2008 6:02PM

I don't know about money but I hid a couple bodies in that bastard. In fact, if every surface it touched didn't look like thawed chicken meat was put on there, I'd have traded it in long ago. As it stands right now, I have to look disappointed with the idea when some friends suggest we play Samurai Spirits 5 on Xbox.

Lone Starr @ Jan 29th 2008 5:32PM

Now the Wii isn't the only console that prints money.

HAR!

Burnt Meatloaf @ Jan 30th 2008 3:52AM

It would be the only console where it's difficult to hide money in the hard drive compartment.

Sam @ Jan 29th 2008 5:49PM

Well afterall the xbox IS hueg enough.

Jeff @ Jan 29th 2008 5:52PM

I stash pot in PC game boxes. =P

StarFoxA @ Jan 29th 2008 5:55PM

inb4police

Farseer (GDI) @ Jan 29th 2008 5:57PM

You'd think that if you sold illegally modded consoles, the first thing the cops would take in a raid would be... your illegally modded consoles.

I for one would probably hide my ill-gotten wealth somewhere else.

Sam406 @ Jan 29th 2008 6:00PM

Come to think of it, of all the places for hiding the cash the modded consoles was the WORST place he could have picked.

Beatz @ Jan 29th 2008 6:08PM

Yeah, if you're a gamer illegally modding consoles the best place to hide your cash is in a box of condoms. The cops will never suspect it.

Korova @ Jan 29th 2008 6:13PM

Very clever, since any gamer only beatz his meats.

Bluebrake @ Jan 29th 2008 6:36PM

Yeah. It's kind of like a drug dealer hiding his cash in a big bag labeled "drugs."

Durandel @ Jan 29th 2008 9:09PM

But who would think to search for CASH in illegally modded game systems?

I mean, cummon!

ThornedVenom @ Jan 30th 2008 12:15AM

An insider source tells me that it's safe to store money under pillows.

FidliousWong @ Jan 29th 2008 6:00PM

As a kid, I used to hide my allowance stash in the base of my lamp. You'd figure this guy could have some something like that.

JonFitt @ Jan 29th 2008 6:02PM

Fail.

As Farseer said, that's not the brightest place to hide it. The space under the bath, or inside a couch would be much better. Or the old classic: toilet cistern.

Dio @ Jan 29th 2008 9:11PM

The toilet tank is the oldest trick in the book, and everyone knows about it thanks to Hotel Dusk Room 215 XD

ray @ Jan 29th 2008 6:22PM

why not just deposit it in the bank?

gary @ Jan 29th 2008 6:49PM

anything in the bank has to be accounted for. practically everything nowadays is taxed and hence any money put into the bank is shown to come from somewhere.

He has to hide the money so that no one questions him as to why there was a vast sudden increase in cash.