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Nintendo says that some Nintendo Switch consoles were stolen in an isolated incident that led to the termination of a distributor's employees and possibly criminal charges:
On Wednesday, a video surfaced of a Nintendo Switch in use, which gave us a good look at the device's software and how its menus work. Nintendo claims that the device in question had been stolen from a distributor.
The maker of the video had claimed that the Switch was a preorder that had shipped early, but walked those statements back. In a statement made to IGN, Nintendo said that the device and others had been stolen by the employee of a US distributor, and the one in the video had been resold.
Earlier this week, individuals claimed to prematurely purchase a small number of Nintendo Switch systems from an unspecified retailer. Nintendo has determined these units were stolen in an isolated incident by employees of a U.S. distributor, with one system being illegally resold. The individuals involved have been identified, terminated from their place of employment and are under investigation by local law enforcement authorities on criminal charges.
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(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday February 20 2017, @11:57PM
Consoles stolen on/before release date is nothing new. I knew a truck driver who made off with six PS2's on launch. How? Easy. Thirty units were headed from a Best Buy warehouse to a store. The trailer was sealed using a tamper proof seal at departure but the warehouse was so hectic during the Christmas season that the person in charge of sealing the trailer and signing off gave the driver the seal to put on while he watched. The driver knew how the seals worked and they could be applied without locking the seal making it permanent. So he slips it on making it look like he locked it and the guy just signs off on it. He drove by his house, unloaded six of them, and then properly locked the seal. When he got to the store they went ape shit trying to figure out how they were stolen in transit. Called the warehouse who told them the trailer was sealed. They verified that the seal wasn't tampered with. The manager or whoever went over the entire trailer looking for a hole or some other point of entry. Nothing. They let him go having zero evidence and told him "I don't know how you did it. But I know you did it." He denied it and went about his day. He kept one and sold the other five for $800 each. His reasoning for stealing them? "They were the worst stop. They wouldn't let you use their water fountain or bathrooms and were assholes. Fuck em" (I have probably told this story before.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 21 2017, @12:35AM
So after you spent your loot did you manage to get another driving job? Come one out with the sequel...
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday February 21 2017, @01:25AM
Ha. He stole other stuff but usually small amounts for himself. Sometimes he fenced stuff, usually clothing. Retired with a pension (teamster). Then he worked with me in our family business where he taught me to drive trucks. Crazy SOB with a real dick attitude but I got along with him. Many fun times spent in the cab of a truck with him and his crazy stories of stealing, crossing paths with gangsters in the trucking business in south Queens out of the multitude of small trucking outfits around JFK airport and NEw Jersey, and characters he worked with.
He gave me a few of his scores. One was four NIC's, or New Internet Computers he had no way to get rid of. Low end PC's with a CD drive, 64MB SDRAM, some 200-300MHz socket 7 VIA and integrated sound. It booted off a CD and ran Linux off a ramdisk running nothing but Netscape or mozilla and a network/dial up config tool. Used a 4MB 44pin ATA flash disk for storing settings and I think the web cache and history. Total crap but I modded two to run Linux off a 44pin HDD which I played with for a bit. Though I mostly used them for parts. The other score was a box of bare Turtle beach Santa Cruz PCI sound cards. I sold a bunch on ebay and made a few hundo which was spent on booze and drugs. Still have a bunch somewhere in a box.