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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: 5, Funny) by Opportunist on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:40PM (3 children)
Buy an iPhone and claim it's just an Apple. Nobody could claim it ain't.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:55PM
At current literacy levels, you could make a case: "it's an apple, I put it in with the other apples and paid the posted price." With an accomplice, the accomplice could bring several display iPads or whatever into the produce section and leave them on the fruit table for the "dupe" to find.
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(Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:09PM (1 child)
Your Honor, apples are nice, but Sony is my favorite fruit!
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @12:05AM
> Sony is my favorite fruit!
Hear it grows from the root kit.