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

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 Thursday October 07 2021, @03:25PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 07 2021, @03:25PM (#1185191)

    Here is the thing. When you are working your full time job and the government is taxing you to give that money to someone else and they are taxing the business you work for (which passes on those costs back to you) this makes it harder for you to make a living. It gives you less take home money.