It's kind of hard to feel bad for someone who gets caught after stealing loads of people's electronics. And yet, my sympathies are with Jeremiah Gilliam, whose desire to play video games is what did him in. I understand all too well the pull of video games on a man. My condolences, Jeremiah!
Here's
the scoop from
The Escapist: Gilliam was playing Xbox Live on a stolen console. The user from whom his Xbox system was stolen logged onto Xbox Live using another machine and saw that his missing console was logged on. From there, he told his parents, who told the police, who traced the system's unique IP address back to Gilliam's location at his grandmother's house. Upon Gilliam's arrest and investigation at the house, GPS devices, PlayStations, video games, credit cards and other valuables were found, and our online gaming lover was charged with grand larceny.
There was no word in the
Escapist report on what game Jeremiah was playing when his whereabouts were given away. For the sake of irony, though, I'm hoping it was Uncharted 2.
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