Teen gets phonebook instead of PS3 in box
Category: PlayStation 3, Posted: 12/26/2007 at 04:32PM EST by Frank Ling, Content Contributor
Apparently the Grinch hasn't just stolen Christmas; he's also stolen one boy's PS3. According to a story by Fox11 news of Thousand Oaks, California, the parents of a lucky 13 year-old decided to buy their son a PS3 with some sweet games. That's the good news.
The bad news is when he opened his PS3 box, he found a phonebook instead.
He took the incident in good nature and laughed about it, but his parents weren't very amused as they forked out over $500 for the machine and games at their local EB store. The parents will be going back to complain about the incident. Apparently, it seems that someone at the store did the switch and took home the PS3, then placed the phonebook in the box as a substitute.
I know people complain about EB's trade-in values, but come on...
If the individual is caught, he or she will be facing felony charges for the purloined PlayStation 3.
For the full television report, click here.
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Looks like someone will be playing his PS3 with Bubba in prison sometime soon.
If that happened to me some heads would roll.
Ah, the ol' switch-a-roo. Also I like the use of the word "purloined".
I saw something similar on the real hustle, they offered free wrapping and swapped all the presents with equally weighing amounts of sawdust and oranges etc.
rofl pwned?
Ugh. Humans are so inhuman around things of value.
That's not cool... Not cool at all. o_O; Someone's going to get fired/sued/charged with theft... ^^;
Wow, that couldn't be more hilarious. If that happened to me, I'd laugh too. I'd be angry later though...