Post by XBot on Dec 28, 2005 20:35:27 GMT 8
Five young people recently tried to scalp the five Xbox 360's they purchased at a Best Buy on Saturday (after queung up for nine hours). Having unsuccessfuly tried to sell the Xbox 360's to people still waiting in the queue for $600, two people followed them, pulled a handgun, and made off with four of the consoles!
A line started forming Saturday evening outside electronic retail store Best Buy in South Anchorage. Best Buy was one of a handful of places in town to stock them. Dozens of people waited hours in the cold to buy one of the $399 units when they went on sale at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Anchorage police and Best Buy clerks.
Best Buy had 50 Xbox 360s to sell. As they did after the Nov. 22 product launch, the units sold out within a couple of hours, said assistant manager Rod Person.
After waiting nine hours in line, a group of five boys and young men entered the store as soon as it opened and purchased their limit: one per customer. The young men, whose names were not available Sunday, tried to make a little extra holiday cash after emerging from the store.
They offered to part with two of their Xboxs to folks in line. For $600, said police spokesman Paul Honeman.
No one agreed. So the five, ages 14 to 24, piled into a van and drove to McDonald's on Lake Otis Parkway near Abbott Road for breakfast. They left the 14-year-old in the car with the Xboxs.
Someone who also wanted an Xbox and who apparently saw them trying to sell the consoles outside Best Buy followed them to McDonald's, Honeman said.
A man who was described as bald and wearing bluejeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt walked up to the van, opened its sliding door and pulled a gun out, police said. The man ordered the teen to open the van's rear door. Another man, described as having dark curly hair, opened the door and took four of the Xboxs.
The teen hid the fifth unit under his feet and managed to keep it, Honeman said.
The thieves drove off in a dark SUV. Police believe a third person was involved...
A line started forming Saturday evening outside electronic retail store Best Buy in South Anchorage. Best Buy was one of a handful of places in town to stock them. Dozens of people waited hours in the cold to buy one of the $399 units when they went on sale at 8 a.m. Sunday morning, according to Anchorage police and Best Buy clerks.
Best Buy had 50 Xbox 360s to sell. As they did after the Nov. 22 product launch, the units sold out within a couple of hours, said assistant manager Rod Person.
After waiting nine hours in line, a group of five boys and young men entered the store as soon as it opened and purchased their limit: one per customer. The young men, whose names were not available Sunday, tried to make a little extra holiday cash after emerging from the store.
They offered to part with two of their Xboxs to folks in line. For $600, said police spokesman Paul Honeman.
No one agreed. So the five, ages 14 to 24, piled into a van and drove to McDonald's on Lake Otis Parkway near Abbott Road for breakfast. They left the 14-year-old in the car with the Xboxs.
Someone who also wanted an Xbox and who apparently saw them trying to sell the consoles outside Best Buy followed them to McDonald's, Honeman said.
A man who was described as bald and wearing bluejeans and a blue hooded sweatshirt walked up to the van, opened its sliding door and pulled a gun out, police said. The man ordered the teen to open the van's rear door. Another man, described as having dark curly hair, opened the door and took four of the Xboxs.
The teen hid the fifth unit under his feet and managed to keep it, Honeman said.
The thieves drove off in a dark SUV. Police believe a third person was involved...
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snatched away! I feel for those kids.
