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Teen gets phonebook instead of PS3 in box

Category: PlayStation 3, Posted: 12/26/2007 at 04:32PM EST by Frank Ling, Content Contributor

phonebookApparently 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.

Posted by jedipoodoo547 on 12/26/2007 at 04:56PM

Looks like someone will be playing his PS3 with Bubba in prison sometime soon.

Posted by HellStaR on 12/26/2007 at 05:03PM

If that happened to me some heads would roll.

Posted by Vars on 12/26/2007 at 05:29PM

Ah, the ol' switch-a-roo. Also I like the use of the word "purloined".

Posted by flame on 12/26/2007 at 06:57PM

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.

Posted by lskennedy on 12/27/2007 at 02:27AM

rofl pwned?

Posted by Archem on 12/27/2007 at 03:14AM

Ugh. Humans are so inhuman around things of value.

Posted by YukoAsho on 12/27/2007 at 01:15PM

That's not cool... Not cool at all. o_O; Someone's going to get fired/sued/charged with theft... ^^;

Posted by Oblivion Lotus on 12/27/2007 at 06:07PM

Wow, that couldn't be more hilarious. If that happened to me, I'd laugh too. I'd be angry later though...

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