£1m of Xbox360's Stolen!

[Lee-yoshi]

£1 million of Xbox 360s stolen in Midlands
Friday 24-Nov-2006 12:18 PM

Staffordshire police appeal for info - trucks carrying Gears of War said to be on full alert

A lorry containing £750,000 worth of Xbox 360 consoles has been hijacked by organised thieves, Staffordshire police has reported.

The crooks made away with the consoles - of which the CVG calculator estimates to be around 2,508 units - near a depot in Staffordshire.

The robbery is the second in a week, as a trailer containing £260,000 worth of the console was stolen from a depot owned by the same firm - Hellman Worldwide Logistics - about a week ago. This together puts the monetary value of the consoles swiped this week at over £1 million - in comparison that'll get you almost 12 whole PlayStation 3's on eBay (hoho.)

Apparently, the thieves managed to convince the lorry driver that something was caught under his wheels (perhaps a Badger, we speculate), and then upon exiting the vehicle beat him and left him on the roadside of the A38 at 5am on Monday. The gang, who were initially driving a Range Rover and Rover Saloon, then dumped the lorry minus the next-gen consoles.

Peter Stevens of the Staffordshire police made a call for witnesses to step forward: "We are appealing for information from anyone who is offered these games in suspicious circumstances, such as in a pub, at a car boot sale or off the back of a lorry".

That's a lot of consoles, but maybe i'll go to Staffs and get myself a Xbox360 on the cheap! ^_^''