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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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Re: Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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Post by Terr_ »

Huh, so a half-baked crime of opportunity, as opposed to a sophisticated operation.

Still unclear on how the delivery managed to get put (or taken) to the wrong side of the road at a construction site. Fedex mistake? Trickery by thief? Misdirection by thief that took them from loading-dock?

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Post by cr3ative »

bmalum wrote: post #2

Surprised by HN again. 1st Place „Story“, wanted to read because no headphones with me, ending up reading a podcast transcript, and TL,DR out.

The transcript was a good read, I also don’t prefer audio.

Admittedly I can skim read quite well though.

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Post by jna_sh »

piqufoh wrote: post #4

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Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.

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Post by saagarjha »

jna_sh wrote: post #8
piqufoh wrote: post #4

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Source for the arrest? I listened to this the other day and I don’t recall an arrest being mentioned. The podcast in fact covers that the police weren’t very much interested, which is why they got a PI involved, who got the thieves to “return” (dump in an adjacent car park) the devices simply by asking questions.

I’m guessing the AI hallucinated it.
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