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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: 1) by rpnx on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:50PM (7 children)
Having less security doesn't make it not theft.
Not locking your doors doesn't give people a right to break into your house.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:58PM (6 children)
If the door's not locked, they're not breaking in.
(Score: 1) by rpnx on Wednesday October 06 2021, @01:59PM (3 children)
Well, if they go in, take stuff, and leave, it's still theft even if the door wasn't locked.
(Score: 2) by BK on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:11PM (2 children)
What if they pay for it? Just not the amount you'd hope for.
...but you HAVE heard of me.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @03:19PM (1 child)
That would still be theft and abandonment of property (in your case money). You can not have a one sided transaction. You can try to dance that angel on the head of a pin. But a court would probably just toss your ass in jail for trespassing, theft and maybe breaking and entering depending on the prosecutor, judge and your lawyer. But the end result would probably have you sitting in a cell with bars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @08:29AM
The magic words you are looking for is "the absence of any manifestation of mutual assent."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @02:25PM
Same thing if you leave your door unlocked and someone comes in without you allowing them to.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @04:00PM
Under what framework of laws?
In the US, yes they are. See: Definition [legaldictionary.net]