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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: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday October 06 2021, @05:12PM (2 children)
The usual dodge here is to mix a bag of a few potatoes and avocados and scan it as potatoes. The avocados are usually much more expensive, but near enough in colour that there is no way the camera can tell.
As an aside, potato - potatoes, avocado - avocados. Why does potato get an e when pluralised but avocado doesn't?
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(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:05PM
It's something similar here except they like take the fancy expensive apples in their bag but scan the cheap but similar looking apples.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 06 2021, @07:45PM
apparently it can also be avocadoes. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/avocado [merriam-webster.com]
there was a stackexhchange and other links going into usage and reasons, not helpful reasons but who ever blamed language of being logically consistent. if only we had invented computers before writing, we might have more logic embedded in it's use.