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Re: Lego and the theif
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lugnet.market.shopping
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Thu, 14 Dec 2006 13:29:48 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Larry Lesser wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> “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.”
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> http://www.azcentral.com/ent/pop/articles/1213toyland.html
This is old news from last year. It made the evening news and cnn.
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