Shrygue
January 28th, 2008, 17:50
via Computer and Video Games (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=180704)
ELSPA investigators have discovered consoles stashed full of cash in the home of an industrious illegal chipper - not, in this case, someone unlawfully happy.
The bloke in question, a resident of Tower Hamlets, had secreted an impressive £12,210 inside a hollowed-out Xbox 1 and PS2s.
Unsurprisingly the fat-boy Xbox - probably now the only one in existence used for something other than a toe-stubbing doorstop - won the cash-stash hands down, with £5,925 apparently where the hard drive would normally be.
Just as well he didn't stick it in an Xbox 360. It would have probably caught fire.
As well as illegally chipping Xboxs and PS2s, the man was selling PSP games on SD memory card. Naughty.
"I've heard it all now", beamed Michael Rawlinson, managing director of ELSPA. "It never ceases to amaze ELSPA and its investigators the lengths criminals go to make money - and always to the detriment of honest, hard working businesses. I congratulate Tower Hamlets Trading Standards on bringing to an end this illegal business operation."
Photographs here (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=191177)
ELSPA investigators have discovered consoles stashed full of cash in the home of an industrious illegal chipper - not, in this case, someone unlawfully happy.
The bloke in question, a resident of Tower Hamlets, had secreted an impressive £12,210 inside a hollowed-out Xbox 1 and PS2s.
Unsurprisingly the fat-boy Xbox - probably now the only one in existence used for something other than a toe-stubbing doorstop - won the cash-stash hands down, with £5,925 apparently where the hard drive would normally be.
Just as well he didn't stick it in an Xbox 360. It would have probably caught fire.
As well as illegally chipping Xboxs and PS2s, the man was selling PSP games on SD memory card. Naughty.
"I've heard it all now", beamed Michael Rawlinson, managing director of ELSPA. "It never ceases to amaze ELSPA and its investigators the lengths criminals go to make money - and always to the detriment of honest, hard working businesses. I congratulate Tower Hamlets Trading Standards on bringing to an end this illegal business operation."
Photographs here (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/viewer.php?mode=article&id=191177)