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Story of the two thousand stolen Playdate handhelds

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175 points textadventure | 1 comments | 22 Nov 24 06:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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romanhn ◴[22 Nov 24 11:19 UTC] No.42212887[source]▶
Interesting choice to go with a PI who's focused on recovery rather than criminal convinctions. Given the lack of sophistication in this operation, I suspect recovery would have happened either way, and the thieves might have faced some actual consequences. As is, they didn't lose anything other than the stolen items and will likely continue to capitalize on similar opportunities in the future.
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1. treesknees ◴[22 Nov 24 19:41 UTC] No.42216771[source]▶
Playdate likely took the initial interactions with the police as a sign of how that would play out. It was already slower and a lot more work, including flying to Las Vegas in-person, to involve law enforcement.

Maybe those construction workers will steal again. But also maybe they realized how easily they were found out, how hard it actually is to offload stolen goods, and decide it’s not worth the hassle to steal again.