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Teenager Jailed After Buying PS4 for £8 by Weighing it and Paying for it as Food

posted by martyb on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:25PM   Printer-friendly
from the hot-potato dept.

owl writes:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6652659/Teenager-jailed-buying-PlayStation-4-8-WEIGHING-paying-6lb-food.html

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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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by jimtheowl on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:37PM (3 children)

    by jimtheowl (5929) on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:37PM (#1184699)
    From the TFA:

    "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.
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:03PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:03PM (#1184730)

    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 Live Stay Out Of Jail.

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    "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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:35PM (#1184745)

    > "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

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @09:07PM (#1184933)

    Everything must go.