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Larry & All,
> Just finished reading the internet paper and look what I found. I thought
> it was just an average article about theives, but guess what. Lego is in it.
> In November, William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nev., was arrested and accused
> of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of Legos from stores
> throughout the country by changing their scannable bar codes. He did
> particularly well with the Star Wars Millennium Falcon Lego sets; officials
> found 56 of the sets in Swanberg’s car at the time of his arrest.
>
> “You can take a $100 Lego set and put a $5 PCP code on it," Abney
> said. "Even if it sells for $75, the thief makes good money.”
>
> http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/1213toyland.html
I thought that sounded familiar, so I went to this site and looked at the
article. I then looked for this on LUGNET - This LEGO incident happened last
November 2005!
http://news.lugnet.com/mediawatch/?n=1968
Either the reporter mis-reported that it was November last year (In November
2005, etc.), or it is sloppy reporting. Based on what I have seen as of late, I
put it in the latter category. : )
Scott S.
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