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Err... So instead of taking him to somewhere else to get a gun, they decide they'd prefer a PS3? Yeah, OK. | |
I...I... WHAT?! How the hell are they meant to use a PS3 in any way for criminal activity??? Does this mean that the PS3 is such an awesome console that people will threaten others to get their hands on it? Guess thats a good tag line actually... "PS3: people will (literally) do anything for it!" | |
Well, the old model PS3 is pretty big. You could probably knock someone out with one. | |
This would make a great advertising campaign for Microsoft... "...only at gunpoint!" Take us back to the Nintendon't days... aaah | |
Well, it only does EVERYTHING. But I can't believe this story. I think either this was completely made up or it's this kids excuse for taking his parents money and buying a PS3. | |
So what we're looking at is an elaborate conspiracy where both Microsoft and Sony work together to take down nintendo; genius! | |
Wow, Sony are really stepping up their freaky ad campaigns. | |
It's not as hard to swallow as the guy who stole 100 copies of modern warfare from a gamestop without using a gun. | |
So... wait... They expected a teenager to be able to get them a gun? Why did they want a gun anyway, since they were already armed? And why did they choose the PS3 over the XBox? Oh God, my head... | |
What the fuck.... You're damn right it's hard to believe. Could you seriously imagine a hostile, armed criminal saying in a dopey retard voice "What? They don't have shotguns? Oh well... buy a PS3 then...". | |
This is actully very believeable. I am not surprised one bit. It's seems more cliche. | |
Wow. Just wow. Double Yoo Tee Eef,Mate?From what i get, the console is gone in unknown direction. He could have made it up as an elaborate gambit to get it for himself, but it could be true just as well. I have three versions: A) The kidnapped teen was a huge Microsoft fan, and they MADE HIM DO IT. For the lulz. B) It's a new marketing ploy by Sony, because come on... many of those PR guys are batshit bonkers. C) Those armed goons wanted to play Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time THAT desperately. If that's the case, i can understand them. | |
So... wait, what? Some armed guys kidnapped a teen to buy them a gun, of which they already had, but when he couldn't get a gun, they told him to buy a PS3? This makes very little sense. | |
First drug dealers and Wiis, and now it's kidnappers and PS3s??? What happened Microsoft? What the hell happened? | |
Dumbest. Criminals. Ever. | |
Is this Sony's new sales team? | |
I laughed. Kudos to you sir.
And this. | |
Florida eh? | |
Couldn't of said it better myself. | |
I can see those two slipping into the Darwin Awards by 2011. | |
"Would you stop complaining about your system, it's not like you were forced to buy it or anything! ... ... Okay, except for Kyle, none of you were forced to buy your console!" | |
1: I have to agree with your wonderment on that one | |
I wish I could believe that a story like this wasn't true. I wonder if afterwards these goons tried to add the kid to their friends list for doing them a favor? | |
Maybe this is Sony's new marketingplan? "BUY THE PS3 OR KIDNAPPERS WILL DO IT FOR YOU!" Or maybe "THE PS3! FOR WHEN YOU CAN'T BUY A SHOTGUN!" | |
Not as bad as the criminals who tried to rob a bank while wearing masks with no holes in them. | |
These men must be put in the chair for this horrible crime! Just imagine the mental scars he will suffer through his whole life! | |
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA, FLAMING, IT'S FUNNY! | |
Or the criminals that used permanent markers for masks. | |
Oh God, I hope the criminals didn't make him play Lair. That'd scar the kid for the rest of his life. | |
I...really didn't expect to read this story when I woke up today. I'd say "dumbest criminals ever" or something like that, but I'm sure they've been beaten.
I'll go with B. Marketing folks are crazy anyway. | |
I wonder if Sony is going to have to eat their own words when Fox claims that the PS3 slogan causes criminals to see it as a weapon. The war on video games continues... | |
I think it's more likely that this is a cover story for Yarkosky stealing stuff from his parents with his friends. If not, these guys are pretty dumb. =/ | |
Handled correctly, this could become really good advertising for Sony. | |
Oh c'mon, this story came out of FLORIDA. Of course, it could be true! It's Florida! Even fark.com has a special label for news that comes out of Florida because it's so weird/stupid. | |
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Kidnapped Teen Forced to Buy PS3
A Florida teen claims that he was kidnapped and forced to buy a PlayStation 3 by armed assailants.
Kyle Yarkosky was on his way to visit a friend at the Pebblebrook Lakes gated community in Naples, Florida and had just passed through the gates when his car was blocked by a white pick-up truck.
According to Yarkosky, two armed men exited the truck, one carrying an assault rifle and the other carrying a pistol. The assailants hit Yarkosky in the head, demanded cash from him and then forced Yarkosky to take them to his home where they stole jewelry and Yarkosky's stepfather's credit card.
The tale gets a little weird from here on in to be honest, as according to Yarkosky, his kidnappers made him drive to a local Wal-Mart so that he could buy one of them a shotgun, but finding the gun counter closed, they settled for a PS3 instead.
Once the kidnappers had the console, they apparently let Yarkosky go, making them the most inept kidnappers I've seen in a while. Naples deputies have arrested one teenager in connection with the attack, 18 year old David Daniels, who was seen with Yarkosky on surveillance footage at the Wal-Mart in question .
I'll be honest, I'm not entirely sure that this is genuine. On the one hand, there are some mind-boggling stupid criminals in the world, but on the other hand, the story seems a little hard to swallow.
Source: Naple News via Kotaku
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