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posted by martyb on Saturday August 15 2015, @08:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the rats-got-bored-running-through-mazes dept.

The Buffalo News Police Blotter reports that a pair of thieves stole Xbox wireless controllers and police tracked them down by contacting the manufacturer. Maybe this is standard operating procedure for the cops, but it was new to this submitter. Any idea of the mechanism(s) involved?

http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/police-blotter/manufacturer-helps-track-suspected-xbox-devices-thieves-20150813

No explicit mention of Microsoft — perhaps these controllers were made by a third party to work with Xbox.


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  • (Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Sunday August 16 2015, @07:56PM

    by PinkyGigglebrain (4458) on Sunday August 16 2015, @07:56PM (#223602)

    All valid points. There is a lot of information about this that we don't have. Hence my hope that someone will follow up and find out why this incident doesn't fit with past situations.

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