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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @04:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @04:47PM (#1184777)
    Clearly the answer is that we have a social duty to steal from the self checkout in order to benefit the broader good of the workers who will ultimately have to be employed. What?! You don't like financial incentives? Maybe consider what our future looks like without UBI and with continued predatory capitalism concentrating the wealth for just a few. I can't do it for you, all I can do is point out the stupid.