Three UPS Employees Booked With PS3 Thefts
I’m actually kind of surprised that PS3 thievery had not happened yet here in the New Orleans area. Now it has. Three UPS employees have been charged with stealing over $19,000 worth of systems from the company’s distribution center in the New Orleans suburb of Elmwood, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office (just to clarify, Orleans Parish is the City of New Orleans). Here’s how they did it:
The men worked nights at UPS and shipped at least 20 of the PlayStation 3 units and 24 wireless video game controllers to their day job at Andrews Sport Company Inc. in Jefferson, using pilfered mailing labels, the arrest report said.
“They would take the (Andrews) labels and put them over the correct label . . . and then it would be shipped here,” said Al Andrews, owner of the sports equipment wholesale company.
The three then sneaked the systems out the Andrews store.
Andrews said he and his company had no idea what the men were up to until a UPS security officer contacted him. Andrews said all three men have been fired from his company.
Jeebus people!! Is this really worth getting shot, going to jail, and/or losing your job for? I don’t think so. Yet, more jackassery over this bastard console….
Three booked in PlayStation 3 thefts [The Times Picayune – New Orleans]
Super Timsy
Posted to Video Games on 21 December 2006
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I guess Nintendo hit the sweet spot…. get just enough out there that people gnash their teeth and tear their hair out because they can’t get one, but not so few that they’ll actually steal them or kill people for them.
(just to clarify, Orleans Parish is the City of New Orleans)
Well to Clarify Orleans a Parish is the same as a county, the city of New Orleans is in Orleans Parish but not the whole thing
If you will, click here to see the full listing of cities in Orleans Parish. You’ll find that New Orleans is the only one there as the New Orleans/Orleans Parish governments are one. The “other places listed,” you will notice, are neighborhoods around the city that used to be cities/towns but have not been separate for decades or a century or two as a result of New Orleans’ growth.
...with the exception of the Belle Chase NAS, which is federal property.