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The Great Brothers In Arms Heist
Posted by Brian Ashcraft at 9:00 PM on September 29, 2008
British cops seized a Renault truck filled with 16,000 stolen copies of Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway. Cops spotted the truck in Leeds after noticing its fake plates. The truck was impounded by authorities, and then stolen again hours later — along with the games. According to a police spokesperson:
We are pursuing a number of lines of enquiry, including eBay transactions where a number of the games have been potentially identified as being advertised for sale. Arrests have already been made in respect of this.
The take's value? £600,000. "Fans needn't worry as more stock is being parachuted in," stated Ubisoft. They, though, should worry about finding the loot.
Grand Theft Auto [The Sun via MCVUK]
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coffeehair
Posted 9:32 PM 29/9/08
Fair play, thats a shit load of copies! Wonder where they managed to get them all from?
Its a seriously awesome game though! Minus a few flaws (The characters sometimes don't have the right inflection in their voices when they're delivering a certain line and it tends to sound a bit odd, like there was sometimes a lack of direction.. ) Seriously though, when you're commanding a squad like that, you can't ever say WW2 is getting stale :D
coffeehair
everybest
Posted 9:31 PM 29/9/08
Why would you steal 16,000 copies of one game? Game pricing seems to drop fairly quickly and trying to sell 16 thousand copies of BIA in a decent amount of time seems nearly impossible without causing suspicion.
everybest
Shiryu
Posted 9:27 PM 29/9/08
Thats the greatest publicity stunt of all times! Create interest in a game by pretending that even pirates want the game so badly to the point fo stealing 16.000 units not once but twice!
I kid, I kid, I hope the game is as good as it's publisher Ubisoft, a company I love so very much for their wonderfull Wii games...
PS: Release Namco's "The Sky Crawlers" in Europe and all will be forgiven, Ubi.
Shiryu
Candlejack
Posted 9:25 PM 29/9/08
The game is great. I've already beaten it 2 days after its release here. Can't wait for the next one which will take place around Bastogne I think. Well, at least they mentioned "Snow" for the sequel.
Candlejack
lumpi
Posted 9:23 PM 29/9/08
Pirates!
lumpi
iRockTheVote
Posted 9:20 PM 29/9/08
"The truck was impounded by authorities, and then stolen again hours later"
Those police are doing a damn fine job...
iRockTheVote
sigh....
Posted 9:18 PM 29/9/08
@PsycheE: Go read The Guardian, idiot.
sigh....
Neutral-fanboy
Posted 9:17 PM 29/9/08
"Fans needn't worry as more stock is being parachuted in,"
Lol now i'm picturing a bunch of "fans" jumping up and down with hands outstretched as a big bundle of games floats slowly towards the ground.
Neutral-fanboy
enewtabie(Future LittleBigPlanet Master Creationist)
Posted 9:17 PM 29/9/08
It's not a bad game actually.The Storyline is kind of muddy,but the gameplay is ok.I guess you need to play the others to get the idea of the story.
enewtabie(Future LittleBigPlanet Master Creationist)
souljacker86
Posted 9:15 PM 29/9/08
@icegoat:
I kind of like the idea of them stealing one game. That is one hell of a heist
souljacker86
icegoat
Posted 9:12 PM 29/9/08
I hate to criticize, but I hate mistakes more.
"Game[s]"
"The[y]"
icegoat
PsycheE
Posted 9:07 PM 29/9/08
Even the fascist Sun gets it wrong sometimes. Loves the po-po then blasts them of their "tight" compound.
PsycheE
LemmingX
Posted 9:03 PM 29/9/08
Lolz "fans"
LemmingX
demonknightinuyasha
Posted 9:57 PM 29/9/08
i just like that the truck was stolen....then stolen again. that's awesome.
demonknightinuyasha
shufflemoomin
Posted 9:48 PM 29/9/08
I get the impression these muppets impounded the vehicle without looking at what was inside. If they did know the game were inside, why not move them somewhere more secure or put the truck in a more secure location? So, the police take a theives' truck and thier haul, then the thieves go into a secure area, likely a police station or similar and just take it back? And people say playing games makes people act them out in real life... How glad are we the truck wasn't full of copies of GTA? :)
shufflemoomin
ThursdayNext
Posted 9:39 PM 29/9/08
@iRockTheVote: My thoughts exactly. Why is no one concerned about that? What happens when they get a massive drugs / weapons haul. I hope they store stuff more securely then.
ThursdayNext
GlItCh017
Posted 10:30 PM 29/9/08
I always thought the next game heist was going to be with a new Need for Speed game... *sigh*
GlItCh017
Quicksilver4648
Posted 10:25 PM 29/9/08
"Fans needn't worry as more stock is being parachuted in"
Oh, believe me. I am not worried.
*Trolls eBay looking for BiA:HH for cheap*
Quicksilver4648
Rubezh
Posted 11:03 PM 29/9/08
The only way to truely enjoy a game is to get 16000 copies and play them all on 16000 consoles at the same time.
Rubezh
NinjaWilliams
Posted 11:00 PM 29/9/08
The UK PoLease are jokes! lol
NinjaWilliams
digipen89
Posted 11:32 PM 29/9/08
It happened in Leeds? It was Rockstar! Get 'em!
digipen89
Hey_guy
Posted 11:28 PM 29/9/08
Someone's going to turn this heist into a movie.
Hey_guy
Shod
Posted 12:05 AM 30/9/08
Ooohh..I live in Leeds! Gonna go bounty hunt that truck down and claim my reward... or be arrested for possesion of stolen goods, whichever comes first.
Shod
Mayu-mayu
Posted 12:51 AM 30/9/08
@LemmingX:
Yeah. Fans. What fans?
Mayu-mayu
cyr3n
Posted 12:45 AM 30/9/08
stolen.. then stolen again??
I'm sorry, this wreaks of marketing stunt.
cyr3n
moonrad
Posted 12:57 AM 30/9/08
@Shiryu: That's showing dedication to the cause! They must have been desperate to play the game!
moonrad
Kenofthedead
Posted 2:03 AM 30/9/08
Good thing for the game doesn't have SecuROM. One more stealing of that lorry and future criminals they would have to call customer service just to get it started.
Kenofthedead
HikariOblivion
Posted 3:07 AM 30/9/08
@Kenofthedead: .... Best comment ever XD
HikariOblivion
jimmyNewtron
Posted 3:03 AM 30/9/08
Perhaps they were serious gamers trying to protect us all from more crap ubisoft games.
jimmyNewtron
OmegaVader
Posted 5:27 AM 30/9/08
And there goes the biggest draw of the newest feature.
*runs back to Rock Band 2*
OmegaVader
Delvar15
Posted 6:06 AM 30/9/08
@iRockTheVote:
I lmao for a good minute when I got to that sentence. Man those guys really wanted that truck BAD.
Delvar15
DukeOfPwn
Posted 8:20 AM 30/9/08
Never mind the games; how incompetent of a police force do you have to have in order to find a stolen truck and have it stolen from you so soon? Idiots.
DukeOfPwn
Xandros
Posted 9:03 AM 30/9/08
@DukeOfPwn: The incompetence of the British police force knows no bounds. Seriously; they're completely fucking useless as far as major crime goes. Drop some litter or fart in the wrong direction however and they're the world's finest at fining you.
Xandros
Infamous.mpgEU
Posted 8:57 AM 30/9/08
@cyr3n: This is England, I've heard of people scaling a 10 foot wall into a police station and stealing the bike, and police evidence and records being leaked.
Infamous.mpgEU
JaMie5684
Posted 10:47 AM 30/9/08
Haha.. stolen again thats funny, good old british police force
JaMie5684
ikiddo
Posted 11:41 PM 29/9/08
@LemmingX:
Yes fans. Just because a simple minded idiot doesn't like it doesn't mean others don't.
ikiddo
AnthonyAulus
Posted 9:37 PM 29/9/08
West Yorkshire !!! Liberty City aint got nothing on us!!! LEEDS UNITED - MARCHING ON TOGETHER!!
AnthonyAulus
mfwahwah
Posted 1:02 PM 1/10/08
"But makers Ubi Soft insisted: 'Fans needn't worry as more stock is being parachuted in.'"
That's fitting for a war game :P
mfwahwah