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(...) truck to haul away his inventory. The story says he sold more than $600K worth of brick over the last 3 years. Unfortunately, they also mention BrickLink. (URL) this would have to happen in my neck of the woods... he was arrested at the Target (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Bryce! This is awesome! :-) *ROFL* -Anne (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I hope Mr. Swanberg bought a supply of Preparation H, cause he's gonna be hurting... :V) -HRH (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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Looks like Bill is one step closer to making new friends in cellblock C. And This time Bricklink made the story. (URL) RENO, Nev. -- A 40-year-old man has been arrested for stealing Legos from several Target stores in Oregon. William Swanberg was (...) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops) !!
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HAH! Isn't it ironic that Target has the Falcon on sale for $49.99? :-) (19 years ago, 25-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(URL) (19 years ago, 24-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX) !!
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(...) LaCie's website is currently down (probably due to the double whammy of getting Boing Boing'd and Slashdotted) -Orion (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(URL) LaCie Debuts Hard Drives in the Form of LEGO Blocks (not real LEGO bricks) by Staff, 12:45 PM EST, November 22nd, 2005 LaCie on Tuesday introduced its new Brick Desktop Edition and Brick Mobile Edition line of external hard drives, which look (...) (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(URL) notice the link they have for LEGO is to the LUGNET Cool Site of the Week... ROSCO (19 years ago, 23-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general)
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(...) Ouch! I feel bad because I have traded with this guy and a lot. He had great deals. Everything was always 20% less than retail ... even the new stuff. I would even have he find me special orders. I always wondered how he could find stuff I (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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I have not met or traded with Bill before. Still, this news shocked me, as if suddenly I discovered that one of my close friends were a criminal. It's sad, sad, sad. Stealing is wrong. Stealing for profit is very wrong. Still, he could have commit (...) (19 years ago, 22-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, lugnet.general, lugnet.people, lugnet.market.brickshops)
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I'm not sure this is really "media watch", it's more like "multimedia watch", but I can't keep this to myself: Google Earth has chosen to include extra high resolution satellite photos of relatively small areas around each of the Legoland parks in (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Most cashiers working in huge toy stores simply don't care. Pick the one that looks most inexperienced, tired, or both, and you can probably get away with the most amazingly simple scams, provided you don't do it too often. That, I think, was (...) (19 years ago, 21-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Actually, it's one of the oldest scams in the book; that's why those automatic tellers at Home Depot, etc, have the weight system setup. I'm surprised it worked so well, I guess the cashier's display just said "ITEM LEGO TOY" or something like (...) (19 years ago, 20-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) No, he was an Admin up to the point Dan got wind of this. He was not only demoted but kicked off the site 100%. I can see Bill doing this no problem. His ego and attitude led him to think he was better and smarter than everybody... guess the (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) That's so simple I'm surprised I never thought of it, not that I'd ever commit a crime of course. Steve (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, David Gregory wrote: He'd better be (...) As I read the report I thought exactly the same thing, although my joke was going to involve making sure he didn't drop the soap. :-) Steve (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) Bill hasn't been an admin for awhile, several months if I remember correctly. Daniel (URL) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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(...) I never did like that guy, but I never would have guessed this. He'd better be able to make up a much more violent or daring crime to tell his cellmates. I can just imagine what his prison life would be like: Cellmate Bubba: "Hey you! Yeah (...) (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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(...) How pathetic. They say innocent until proven guilty but it sounds like they got him dead to rights. I hope this doesn't end up giving all AFOL's a bad name! (19 years ago, 19-Nov-05, to lugnet.mediawatch)
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