Man goes into Gamestation and buys GTA4 for his 12 year old son, when he opens it he finds 4 ecstasy tablets tucked inside. Damn, I always miss promotional offers. Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7990927.stm
This is what made me feel most distraught too. What an idiot. Hopefully he keeps his kid far from the medicine cabinet before he overdoses on those random pills hes going to find.
Haven't been any decent mitsubishis in the UK for years... which is a good thing for the idiot who traded the game in the first place as they won't be able to prosecute them. Odds are the pills contain mCPP which is not a controlled substance (essentially, it's a legal high) It's worth noting that they should have his/her address on their computer when they traded the game in so they won't be hard to find.
They only need to do this if someone trades in for cash (unless things have changed), if the original owner traded for other games then theres no comeback. Yeah right! they don't generally don't give a crap what the games traded in are like.
Gamestation is a chain, right? I would sue, or take a settlement. Really fun drugs in a video game case? Should be worth a lot.
Wow, there's so much wrong with this. No, he shouldn't buy an 18 like that for a 12 year old. How did he recognize the pills? I agree, he looks like he took some... his son, too! As for feeling it through the cover - bullshit! There's a layer of PVC, then the sleeve, then the green plastic case, then half an instruction manual and THEN the pills. How can he prove they came in the game? Oh yeah... HE CAN'T! WHY would you want this story in the paper? BAD FATHER FINDS DRUGS. Hmm. As for their trade-in policy, well how do you recognize the ACTUAL copy? They have how many copies of a popular game like that in stock? That relies on them somehow individually labelling each copy differently... and after that, the customer not removing the label (which you would do if you were giving it as a present). I worked in an indie games store and we took down the details of EVERYONE who traded in games, regardless of whether they received cash or in-store credit. Yes, we'd take a driver's license or such for cash deals. However, we couldn't identify an individual copy were it to come back.
True, the only way to trace the original owner would be to go through the list of people who traded it in, then check if they're DNA is on record, then try to match it up with any DNA present on the drugs/wrapper. Highly unlikely. Or trawl through the store's cctv looking for someone with eyes like flying saucers, enthusiastically chomping on chewing gum.
I'm pretty sure that is the most unlikely way to find a common drug user.. That is an awful lot of time money and energy to put into finding someone that accidentally left some ë in a game case. Real police work isn't like CSI.. DNA testing takes more than 5 minutes.
My Spider-sense is tingling because this feels like a scam to me. It just seems too convenient that... 1. Nobody noticed the bulge beforehand. 2. It just happened to be Grand Theft Auto. 3. The father just happened to remember that Mitsubishi was a symbol used on the tabs at one time. It all just seems to come together a little too neat and tidy to make the perfect sensational story for a quick payday.
:lol: yeah. Looks like they've both been on them for quite some time :lol: But why the hell is he letting his 12 year old play a 18 cert' game? Yakumo
ecstasy in a video game... now that's for real... I hope those "forbid GTA for teh sake of almighty god" fools won't use that story...
That would imply that people playing DOA titles actually get some... They should come with an Ai in a cup.
Why would you want your Ai in a cup? thats just silly, you want your Ai in the game so you actually have something to play with. :110::lol:
