Man forced by kidnappers to purchase a PlayStation 3

You can tell the recession is dramatically affecting folks all over the United States when stories about kidnappers forcing their detainee to buy them gaming consoles arise. That's exactly what Kyle Yarkosky is alleging that David Daniels and another unnamed suspect did to him, after forcing him at gunpoint into their vehicle, having him steal his stepfather's credit card, and then drive to the local Walmart where they made him buy them a PlayStation 3.

Naples News reports that the suspected assailants entered the Pebblebrooke Lakes gated community in a white truck, with Yarkosky following behind on foot, said to be headed to "meet a friend." Instead, the truck allegedly stopped, with Daniels and "an Asian-looking man" exiting and ordering Yarkosky into their vehicle. The two suspects are said to have forced Yarkosky to steal his stepfather's credit card and drive to a local Walmart, where Daniels intended on having a gun purchased. When the gun counter was closed, he then requested Yarkosky purchase a PlayStation 3. According to reports, Daniels then told Yarkosky he was "free to go," thus ending the ordeal.

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Well that's one way to get a PS3...

New PS3 slogan: It'll make you do anything.

It wouldn't surprise me if the man worked for Microsoft.

I guess Sony will do anything to push more units.

>>impllying Sony doesn't sell any consoles or make enough to be profitable

I think it was an asian gang or something.
I saw someone, he looked asian.
He was speaking another language, I'm pretty sure it was... asian. *sobs*

A PS3 story and nobody died?! What happened... oh. The gun counter was closed.

I might as well take a shot at being funny.

"The PS3: It only does everything (including coercion)."

Apparently the >>implying joke went clear over everyone's heads lol.

@Silicon Siren

>implying shitty 4chan memes are funny outside of 4chan, or even funny at all.

Is the guy sure it wasn't some Puerto Rican guy.

Flamebait.

PS3 IS THAT MUCH BETTER BECUASE PEOPLE WOULD B UY GUNS AND STEAL CREDITS CARD WITH THEIR ASIAN FREINDS JUST TO GET 1

Nah this is Sony's new move to try to move more consoles.

@colby

THEY WOULD MOVE MORE CONSOLES IF PS3'S HAD FEET. THEN, IT WOULD DO EVERYTHING, EXCLUDING OBTAINING SENTIENCY.

@robert

First, it's sentience, no 'y'. Second, having feet doesn't make you sentient, as you just proved

stealing stepfather's credit card? buying a gun? how old are these guys anyway....

16, apparently. I think I saw 16 somewhere when I clicked the link.

18, my bad. No word on Coolio's asian friend.

I never expected to go on joystiq.com and see an article with this title. I heard of people stealing a ps3 right from there hands but never forcing them to actually buy one.

wait, they stole their own stepfather's credit card? Couldn't they have done that themselves? You know, without kidnapping someone at gunpoint?

No, they stole the kidnapees' stepfather's credit card.

Well, we're obviously not dealing with Danny Ocean here... Maybe they just watched Edward Scissorhands...

Yeah, guess I misread the article. Would have been hilarious tho

haha, I would have told them to go ahead and shoot me in the middle of Walmart. It was obviously a bluff.

If you did that you'd really have a burning sensation. . .right in the middle of your chest where all that red stuff is coming from

Right, because no one's ever been shot in a public place over a couple hundred dollars before. Good plan, my man. Lemme know how that plays out for you.

please, they were bluffing. besides its only burns when I pee :D

Funny thing is, people were shot while waiting in line to purchase PS3s on launch night.

Yeah i probably wouldnt do that.......Unless i was sure that i could dodge bullets

A man almost died over a matter of eighty dollars.

I think his name was Emmet Brown

If the PS3 only does everything, maybe the morons can say it made them commit the crime...

Bobby, call Fox news, I think you're on to something.

@Bobby Kotick

What you talking about the PS3 couldn't do everything the first time it happened? It could do everything and more. It even had the audacity to show the Spider-Man font on the side.

Well, even though it had the Spider-Man font, it couldn't do it all on its own, no, it's no Superman.

The funny thing is, this happened in a gated community. Eventually they have to leave those gates and mingle with us middle class peasents.

You WILL work 2 jobs and kidnap someone to enjoy a PS3!

What you did there, see I do.

LOL, 16 uses old man's card to buy PS3 then guiltily makes up dumbass story to cover his stupidity. He'll be called PS3-boy.

That's exactly what I read. Worst "oh noes kidnapping" story ever.

I don't know whether to laugh, or feel sorry.

Why choose?

If I was being held at gun point and forced into a Wal Mart, I think I would enter the store and loudly shout "THIS MAN HAS A GUN POINTED AT MY BACK!" and take off running.

This sounds pretty fishy to me...

Yeah, something is off about the whole story.

Personally, if a man had a gun pointed into my back, I would go out of my way not to piss him off.

Well, when I saw the morons getting out of the car with guns, I believe I would have either punched it and sent them flying or threw my truck into reverse and got out of there.

Investing in those bulletproof windows for your honda civic finally pays off, eh Bradwart?

Actually...it's a custom Ford truck. And not bulletproof windows, but the tires are.

Well as long as you keep the tires in front of the windows, you're set!

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I'm not sure if those patriotically camouflaged TruckNutz™ technically justify the term "custom".

Those are so lame...I want to slap every person I see using those up the side of the head.

Slap them with their own TruckNutz™?!

PS: We seem to have a reply war going on. Does this mean we're going steady now?

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