Four Months from Sodas to Stealing PS3 and Xbox Consoles

Some of them are funny like hell, others are plain stupid. All are illegal. Yes, we're talking about the ways found by criminals to steal stuff. For example, we now have the funny story of a 21 year-old Kmart employee who managed to steal electronics worth more than $7000 before being, eventually, caught.

According to the guy, Nathaniel Gustafson is his name, he started stealing sodas after he got employed by Kmart, back in August. He probably got much more than he could hold in his house, since starting December he moved to the "real deal" - stealing electronics. Just a regular story, nothing interesting until now. And it would have been like this if this guy's stealing technique wouldn't have been very innovative and... plain funny!

For example, let's take his first significant theft: 30 DVDs, two Xbox controllers and ten Value games. He placed all these in a Crock Pot box, which he purchased several days later. After one week, he took a camcoder, 10 Value games and 10 movies in a toaster box. Last week he thought he had really scored with his microwave box filled with an Xbox hard drive, two Xbox HD DVD players and two Playstation 3 systems. Unfortunately for him, the box set off the alarms and he got caught before having the chance to use any of the big treats he took for him. (Or, more likely, to sell them.)

Now I just can't take this picture out of my head: a small toaster box filled with DVDs, controllers and stuff, and a guy carrying it nonchalantly towards the exit. I mean, come on, dude! Each and every "next-gen" box he had prepared stayed in that store for a few days before he took it. And no customer got lucky enough to grab one. That's really sad. Especially nowadays when, instead of finding some extra things in your newly bought boxes, you risk to find medical books and so on. (Of course, except for the lucky lad who found some porn, ages ago, in a Madden NFL box).