
Police insurance claim.
Hope they got a crime ref number. Someone should be around in a couple of days to have a look at it...
Police have learnt the true meaning of Grand Theft Auto, after a lorry full of stolen PlayStation 3 games was nicked from their... ahem... secure lock-up. According to a report by the Sun, shutters at a secure police depot in Northampton were smashed open to allow the vehicle to be driven away by the thieves. The truck …
..that deserves much fuller coverage.
A lorry full of PS3 games gets nabbed by police becuase it has false number plates - why the false number plates? had the games already been stolen once? what of the original driver?
Someone has broken in to the police car pound, known which truck has the high value cargo, ram raided their way out, got away with enouth time to empty the truck of it's palettes of games and then hide them before the police found the truck?
Either this is a well connected criminal gang or we have someone on their way to becoming a supervillan! We now need a superhero to step up and restore balance!
@ Anonymous Coward • Monday 29th September 2008 15:22 GMT
Not reported is that there were also 10 pallets of the 360 versions of the games. The police are not looking for these as the thieves broke back into the secure lockup and returned them a few hours later.
(in reference to Only Fools and Horse and the broken lawnmower engines.)
When I read this story for the first time, it was stated that it was only copies on Brothers In Arms that were loaded onto the truck. Once The Sun gets it's hands on the story, now there's copies of GTAIV in there too, is there? The Sun wouldn't have made up that detail in order to imply the behaviour of the thieves was motivated by playing this game, would they? Nah, The Sun don't make up facts...