The Harford County, Maryland sheriff’s office said the heist happened Saturday evening, and the robbers waited until closing time to hold up the GameStop in the Festival at Bel Air shopping centre in Bel Air, about 48km northeast of Baltimore.
Deputies said two customers stopped by the store mid-robbery and were forced at gunpoint into a storage area. Neither they nor employees were hurt. The robbers might also be behind an October 21 holdup at GameStop’s nearby Aberdeen, Maryland location.
A sheriff’s office spokesman asked locals to call them if they’re offered a copy of the game before Tuesday’s release date. A quick scour of Craigslist in that area turned up no such offers.
Harford robbers steal more than 100 ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops’ video games [Baltimore Sun via Hot Blooded Gaming]
Ben
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 1:25 PMlol what! How much were they willing to sell copies of a game ONE DAY from release to justify an armed robbery?
TadMod
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 1:40 PMOk, so the highest amount of money they can make from this is $10k (if they’re really lucky), but more likely to get $5k or lower. So really, they would’ve gotten more from robbing a friggin’ 7/11!
indianguy
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:19 PMwell at a 7/11 they need to deal with an indian guy saying “DANK U KUM AGAN”
EzyLee
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 1:43 PMDamn Russians disguised as Americans…
Ray
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 1:48 PMBwhahahahaha! God, I love video games. No other industry has this kind of crazy shit going on.
James Mac
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:56 PMO’rly?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7119073.stm
Ray
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:47 PMI love the fact it was just one dude in a truck.
James Mac
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 4:42 PMStill hasn’t been caught.
Ray
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 5:28 PMHe’s probably rolling around naked on top of the kegs and throwing kegs in the air while laughing etc.
The Cracks
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:20 PMI remember when that happened. That guy is epic.
Eddy
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:02 PMWhoa.. talk about desperate.
Reoh
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:26 PMCan’t wait for the follow up story tomorrow, where they all tried to logon and had their accounts banned.
Dominic Davies
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:31 PMRight now Stringer Bell is playing Black Ops and I am not.
doubleDizz
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:36 PMHOLY SHIT!! QOTD!!!! BWAHAHAHAHA!
Will
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:18 PMShiiiiiiiiiiiit!
Clay Davis
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:20 PMsheeeeee-it.
Stefan
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 4:49 PMhahaha props mate
Braaains
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:34 PMEven from here you can hear the wails of anguish from those GameStop customers who just had their preorders get carried out the door.
Denaz
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:21 PMlol I wonder how understanding they’ll be?
“I don’t care if he had an AK47 in your face, you shouldn’t have given him my prestige edition!”
706-2
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 2:35 PMI know I should probably look down on these guys, but you know what, they just lived out one of my childhood fantasies; but I wouldn’t have just stolen 100 copies of 1 game, I would have gotten every game in there.
MILDLY IRATE VIDEO GAME GUY
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:29 PMGood thing the robbers didn’t open fire. I heard that the Gamestop clerk was rocking the Martyrdom perk.
Admiral Akbar
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 3:56 PMOh god, it was in Bel Air.
inb4bel-air.
Veagor
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:09 PMA date included when they had robbed the store would have been nice, seems extremely moronic that they would commit a crime to get something the day before release (I get they got more copies than just for them, but what sort of demand would there be for a game that comes out in a day?). This won’t go down well in the media…
cakemixer
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 10:44 PMin the link it says saturday night
so its like 3 days early
Jason
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:25 PMNow this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down, now if you’d like to take a minute just sit right there i’ll tell you how i stole black ops in a town called Bel Air
James Mac
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:46 PMAh, the reverse bel-air… seldom used, but always worth it.
Mitchell
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 6:26 PMNOOO! They’re going to get to 10th prestige first!
Brendan
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 8:27 PMWhat’s really sad is people will pay these lovely gents money for the games, justifying the crime. I mean sell those 100 for $50 and that’s 5 grand.
Clemetheus
Monday, November 8, 2010 at 10:51 PMWhat a bunch of dip-sh!ts, all they are doing is reinforcing negative gamer stereotypes. I seriously hope they get caught by the police, and they try to run then get mauled by police dogs.