Daring Console Heist Nets Broken Machines

Thanks to the Indianapolis Star for their article discussing an audacious, but ultimately unfortunate heist of videogame consoles. According to the piece: "In a robbery as scripted as some movie heists, armed bandits struck a Far-Eastside [Indianapolis] warehouse Tuesday evening and used forklifts to load six pallets, containing several hundred of the popular PlayStation 2 and Xbox machines, onto a waiting get-away truck." However, The Indy Channel throws a spanner into the works with their follow-up story, revealing: "Police say many of the video game systems that were stolen from a warehouse Tuesday night were in the process of being returned because they didn't work."

Re:Darwin

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At least in Michigan, the laws on secondhand store and pawnshop purchases is that the seller's identification has to be taken down, they have to be thumbprinted, the information along with a description of the item and its SN have to be filed with the police, and the device has to sit for awhile (pretty sure it's a month, or was it two weeks,) so the police have time to do their checks on it before it gets a new owner.

If anything they will be sold in 'flea markets' (a bunch of merchants who deal apparently outside of regulations meeting someplace like a parking lot, happens in Florida all the time,) or why not just take them to Mexico where the news will probably not have hit yet, and sell them dirt cheap to poor people who (who may or, then again, may not ask for a bench test,) who you'll hopefully never do business with again?