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A French teenager has been jailed after buying a PlayStation 4 for under £8 by weighing it as if the games console was a huge bag of fruit.
The 19-year-old man, named in the French media as Adel, picked the device off the shelf and took it to the fruit section and weighed it.
He then put a sticker with the heavily reduced price tag on the expensive console and went to the checkout.
Adel paid £7.86 (€9) for the 6lb bag of 'fruit' at a self-checkout at a supermarket in Montbeliard, eastern France, last September.
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Teenager Jailed After Buying PS4 for £8 by Weighing it and Paying for it as Food
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:27PM (6 children)
Does anybody get lucky twice?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by jimtheowl on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:37PM (3 children)
"Caught by police when he went back next day to same shop and tried it again"
So not if you are so intent on getting caught, but it is good he was.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:03PM
Dang. Here I was thinking "they should really let him keep it and just fix the problem", but now it falls under Too Dumb To
LiveStay Out Of Jail."Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:35PM
> "Caught by police when he went back next day to same shop and tried it again"
He was probably just hungry. [lawenforcementtoday.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @09:07PM
Everything must go.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday October 06 2021, @02:09PM (1 child)
Yes. Some people have been known to have actually been struck by lightning more than one time.
If you think a fertilized egg is a child but an immigrant child is not, please don't pretend your concerns are religious
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:05PM
IIRC, there was a Canadian park ranger that was hit around 6 times during his life...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Sullivan [wikipedia.org]
Sorry, 7 times ... but the last time, after being hit, he also had to fight a bear with a stick.... its 22th fight with bears in his life!!
Of course, none of the strikes killed him... in the end, he shot itself
Some guys have all the "luck"!