Arcade cabinet used to smuggle pot, DEA nabs 'High Score'
by Xav de Matos 
{ Jul 31st 2009 at 1:00AM }
Over $170,000 worth of the "Sticky Icky" was recovered in the bust, landing Dixon (whose mugshot is poorly 'shopped above) in a Cook County courthouse, where bail was set at $250,000. Dixon's motives are unclear, but we're sure some anti-video game activist will let us know exactly which game is to blame for the crime sometime in the near future.
[Thanks, Don]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Sly [Wiizer Sweatshop Raccoon] @ Jul 31st 2009 1:04AM
that's actually kind of smart in a strange way... i still think having a hollow tooth that you can easily pull out (like from blood diamond) is the best idea for smuggling though.
Reader @ Jul 31st 2009 3:02AM
Transporting 50 cents worth of pot per trip might be a problem though.
ArchiGamer [Wiizer Sweatshop Human Resources] @ Jul 31st 2009 3:25AM
Not to Sly, he's a thief. A thieving raccoon at best.
iluvmyzune @ Jul 31st 2009 3:37AM
im awsome at halo when my "high" score is going!!!
Sly [Wiizer Sweatshop Raccoon] @ Jul 31st 2009 3:42AM
uh what archi said...
ArchiGamer [Wiizer Sweatshop Human Resources] @ Jul 31st 2009 1:06AM
Damn, the one time I decide not to go the local arcade, this happens!!
...err, I mean, can't believe this happened here in Vegas....
*moves eyes side to side*
EI8HT @ Jul 31st 2009 1:08AM
so instead of winning coupons tickets, you win cannabis
dark_inchworm (on Steam!) dark inchworm (on XBL!) @ Jul 31st 2009 1:15AM
Shun my habits if you wish, but I'd hit up that arcade on the daily.
Stevetrop @ Jul 31st 2009 2:51AM
Seriously people would be fighting all they can for the "High Score"
I guess what could make this even funnier is if the arcade game he had it in was one that you had a character trying to stop drug trafficking. A great sense of irony with him having this in an old school arcade game machine of NARC.
spinthelights @ Jul 31st 2009 1:10AM
Is that...? Tracy Jordan? Could the game in question possibly "Goregasm: The Legend of Dong Slayer?"
A viral marketing ploy? Nah, couldn't be...
DWells55 @ Jul 31st 2009 1:29PM
Yeah, first thing I thought is that guy looks like Tracy Jordan.
ThePhantomnaut @ Jul 31st 2009 1:11AM
What an ugly guy.
HairyBalls @ Jul 31st 2009 1:21AM
Is that Tracy Morgan...
http://miamipress.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/kelistracy.jpg
Travis @ Jul 31st 2009 1:36AM
I'm Brian Fellows!
ArchiGamer [Wiizer Sweatshop Human Resources] @ Jul 31st 2009 1:41AM
*parrot*
I'm Brian Fellows!
Caveman @ Jul 31st 2009 1:31AM
Just legalize it already
Caveman @ Jul 31st 2009 1:32AM
http://media.photobucket.com/image/obama%20smoking%20weed/Bushwack_2006/obama-smoking1.jpg
R (XBL: Esoteric Lord) @ Jul 31st 2009 3:01AM
Aye, legalize it and put it at a 50% tax rate, be a good income source for the government.
Jose @ Jul 31st 2009 1:50AM
de Matos? You're a Brazillian drug lord! Pushing some leftist Lula agenda. Or your just trying to push your Ronaldo on us, and we aren't impressed.
Messi is MY dreamboat captain.
Sly [Wiizer Sweatshop Raccoon] @ Jul 31st 2009 3:43AM
canadian drug lord actually :)
BeckRokk @ Jul 31st 2009 2:04AM
ARRRUGGGHHHH
That headline made me physically ill. I rolled my eyes so hard I am now blind.
What the f**k is this, USA Today?
Reader @ Jul 31st 2009 3:04AM
I concur... I had read it at least half a dozen times before the meaning clicked.
WiredKnight @ Jul 31st 2009 2:25AM
Dude just wants to get paid.
j3ff @ Jul 31st 2009 4:21AM
better him then me
shibathedog @ Jul 31st 2009 4:33AM
Wow, weed is cheap in Vegas. That would have sold for $370,000 give or take some here. (I did the math out of boredom) Unless they are talking about supplier to dealer prices.
That means an ounce technically costs exactly $61.77 in Vegas if they are talking street prices. That seems insanely cheap. Can anyone confirm if the price is at least close to this amount?
snarfoogle @ Jul 31st 2009 7:39AM
Maybe only $170,000 was "recovered" because he started eating it when he realized the jig was up...
The Baron @ Jul 31st 2009 9:12AM
Probably supplier prices, or maybe the 'estimate' forgot to carry the one.
Either way, that is a large chunk of sweet, sweet hash in there.
chipotlehero @ Jul 31st 2009 11:39AM
The dude was from Vegas but this arrest happened in a fairly affluent subarb of Chicago.
greeneyebandett5 @ Aug 3rd 2009 11:37AM
well ur almost right dud its 100 bucks ounce in vegas...lol
eldee @ Jul 31st 2009 5:06AM
Xav, your puns are the WORST. how did you ever land this gig?
Xav de Matos @ Jul 31st 2009 9:38AM
Dad?
M.Garvey @ Jul 31st 2009 8:37AM
I think the people that are against games will use GTA: Chinatown Warsas their reason. It's one of the few games where you can sell drugs to earn money.
Tukachinchilla @ Jul 31st 2009 9:42AM
"...Dixon's motives are unclear, but we're sure some anti-video game activist will let us know exactly which game is to blame for the crime sometime in the near future...."
Hey, Jack Thompson, that's your cue!
whylekat @ Jul 31st 2009 10:20AM
Omg I hope he used an old N.A.R.C. Cabinet! That'd be so classic.
TheKarmaPolice @ Jul 31st 2009 2:47PM
Did the cabinet say: "Winners don't do drugs" before starting the game?
That would have been deliciously ironic