Minneapolis Man Steals 8Yearold's Video Games, Gets Caught on Camera

Connect with us: SEARCH Minneapolis man steals 8yearold's video games, gets caught on camera Forgot your password? Username A p r i l 8 , 2 0 1 5 G a m e P o l i t i c s S t a f f : Password A Minneapolis man has been charged with : allegedly stealing more than $1,000 of video games and game systems from an 8year Log In old boy who was visiting him while he was a patient at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul. The 43yearoldman, identified as Dave A. Poll Schmotter, allegedly stole a case containing If you were Obsidian, would you have the video gamerelated items and hung it on replaced the epitaph in Pillars of Eternity that some saw as transphobic?: his intravenous stand while the boy and his mother were distracted during a visit in November of last year. No, I would have let it be. But what Schmotter didn't count on was Yes, as Obsidian did, I would have it that the hospital had surveillance cameras. replaced with a new epitaph by the original After reviewing the tapes, hospital security retrieved the case and called in the police. author. The case contained two Nintendo DS gaming systems and 30 40 video games that were worth Yes, I would have it replaced with a new epitaph by a new author. over $1,000. I would have removed it without replacing The Star Tribune has more on the story here. it. I would have left leaving it, removing it or Posted in replacing it up to the original author. Like 5 Tweet 0 0 Vote Comments Shout box Re: Minneapolis man steals 8yearold's video games, gets ... You're not permitted to post shouts. Submitted by Left4Dead on Thu, 04/09/2015 13:11. That kid is SPOILED. I had to buy all my own video games as a kid with the money I made and prh99: NPR and other large news sites are got the occasional video game as a Christmas present. There's no way that kid bought that almost universally crap in the comment many games. And supposing for a brief moment that they did, they could certainly afford to lose sections. 04/09/2015 4:40pm them without any overall financial issues. The only logical conclusion is that bad parenting is the underlying cause of this story. Andrew Eisen: Exactly. How DARE anyone try to slightly improve it let alone be successful in doing so! 04/09/2015 4:29pm Moral of the story: Don't carry $1,000 worth of anything on your person. Left4Dead Why are zombies always eating brains? I want to see zombies that eat toes for a prh99: Well f2p mobile games are exploitative living. Undeadrelated pun intended. anyway, be it Temple Run, Kardashian's game or Dungeon Keeper. A total cesspool regardless of ones politics. 04/09/2015 4:24pm Re: Minneapolis man steals 8yearold's video games, gets ... Submitted by Ryan Rardin on Wed, 04/08/2015 20:36. Andrew Eisen: These damn feminists are ruining gaming by convincing companies to... uh, you I can't take that picture seriously ever since Homestar Runner did that Halloween Safety cartoon know. Like, add more playable characters and last October. charge more reasonable prices. Those horrible jerk faces! 04/09/2015 4:10pm E. Zachary Knight: Of course, if you read the comments, you will be greatly disappointed in the gamer reaction to the article. Pretty much your typical antifeminism rants. 04/09/2015 3:55pm E. Zachary Knight: Pretty awesome if you ask me. I am glad that she took that initiative. 04/09/2015 3:54pm E. Zachary Knight: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/0 4/08/398297737/a12yearoldgirltakesonthe videogameindustry 04/09/2015 3:54pm E. Zachary Knight: 12 yearold girl researches the availablility of female avatars in popular free to play games, finds the majority of games charge on averag $7.50 for a female avatar and then shames Disney and others into correcting the problem. 04/09/2015 3:54pm Matthew Wilson: @AE your right I did not relize there were no ads on that page. 04/09/2015 2:17pm Andrew Eisen: But yeah, it's possible. Lord knows I've seen a ton of impossibly stupid people on the internet. 04/09/2015 2:14pm Andrew Eisen: Not to mention that plan relies on people blindly guessing at a URL instead of Googling it like most people. 04/09/2015 2:13pm Andrew Eisen: Extra clicks to a bio page on one of its subsidiary's sites? On a page that doesn't run ads? In a move that's going to confuse/piss off everyone who clicks the link? That is an unbelievably stupid plan. 04/09/2015 2:10pm Matthew Wilson: @AE I dont think it was a joke, I think it was to get extra clicks. I do not think they though through the consaquences though. 04/09/2015 2:04pm Andrew Eisen: I mean, buying such a URL and redirecting it to a site that sells manure would be a prank, one whose humor is obvious but what's amuzing about redirecting to an unreleated site's bio page for its product manager? 04/09/2015 2:03pm Andrew Eisen: Maybe I have a crap sense of humor but I'm failing to see what's so funny about this practice. 04/09/2015 2:01pm Matthew Wilson: the guys own tweet https://twitter.com/dz/status/58623668050977996 8 04/09/2015 1:48pm Andrew Eisen: Where'd you get that from? Not saying you're wrong but when I looked it up (and I could totally be doing this wrong) I got a company who, when Googled, comes up with a bunch of articles about it being scam tastic. 04/09/2015 1:47pm Matthew Wilson: the owner of the second link I posted was a vox engineer https://twitter.com/dz take from that what you will. 04/09/2015 1:40pm Andrew Eisen: Yes, so long as he doesn't already have a history of doing dumb things that make Polygon look bad. 04/09/2015 1:21pm Matthew Wilson: @AE do you think the writer will keep his job? 04/09/2015 1:09pm All shouts Find us on Facebook Entertainment Consumers Association Like 43,550 people like Entertainment Consumers Association. Facebook social plugin << Return To Top.

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