Crooks tie up victims with power cord whilst stealing PlayStation

While this one came oh-so-close to being filed under the ongoing PS3 crime spree chronicles, the inability to pinpoint the PlayStation unit crooks nabbed as one of the highly-coveted "3" models forced us to clump this in with the smorgasbord of other (general) utterly dumb criminal acts. While it wouldn't surprise us to find that the armed burglars who ransacked a Cincinnati home were indeed after the mighty lucrative PS3, their bafflingly high level of stupidity leaves us to wonder if it wasn't a PlayStation 2 (or worse, a PSOne). The robbers reportedly bum rushed the house with their eyes on the prize, tied up the victims with a "PlayStation power cord," bolted out while laughing evilly, and then realized they needed the very cable they left behind. Similar to the crook who jacked a TV but returned for the remote, these guys apparently forgot the keys to pulling off an even marginally successful heist, but thankfully didn't harm the poor family they intruded upon. The wonders of humanity will never cease.

[Thanks, Matt M.]

[Juan @ Nov 29th 2006 3:31PM]

I'll bet they stole a Playstation 2 AND a Playstation 1.

[xVariable @ Nov 29th 2006 3:42PM]

The burning question is were they shot and killed later by police?

[andrew @ Nov 29th 2006 3:45PM]

Is it just me or is everyone tired of reading about PS3 thefts?

[Rob @ Nov 29th 2006 4:24PM]

The hilarious thing is, if Sony has repeated history, the PS3 still used that same old power cord that has been on most of their consoles and other products for years, and is available pretty much anywhere. So oh well if they left it behind.

[Andir3.0 @ Nov 29th 2006 5:37PM]

The power cable on the PS3 is your typical 3-prong PC power cable. This is not the same as the PS2 cable.

[Stephen Shores @ Nov 29th 2006 4:47PM]

Doh!

[Vincent Daniels @ Nov 29th 2006 5:05PM]

Couldn't they just find a used one from EB/Gamestop/Babbages etc or Ebay?

xVariable - Yeah, they probably did get shot...

[PreGHz @ Nov 29th 2006 5:16PM]

The cops caught them after a lengthy chase.

They tripped over a cordless phone.

Zing!

[adrian @ Nov 30th 2006 3:13AM]

Reminds me of a Ctrl+alt+del comic, where Ethan and Lucas was tied up with Xbox wired controllers.

[Scott Vieth @ Nov 30th 2006 12:01PM]

Why am I not shocked about this happening in Cincinnati?