http://wral.com/news/local/story/2683822/

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"Raleigh, N.C. — N.C. State police found and seized 10 iPods in a search of a Bowen Hall dorm room Sunday. According to the search warrant, Clyde Cox admitted to detectives that his roommate, Max Myrick, would buy the iPods at Target, then return the empty boxes for a refund and re-sell the iPods on Craigslist. Cox told N.C. State police that Myrick filled the empty boxes with pennies, and that he sold the like-new iPods on Craiglist for $200."

4/5/2008 11:33:54 AM

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"Myrick filled the empty boxes with pennies"

4/5/2008 11:35:28 AM

pretty old scam

people have been doing this with cameras at walmart for years

4/5/2008 11:35:38 AM

4/5/2008 11:36:35 AM

4/5/2008 11:37:22 AM

musta pissed off the roomie

4/5/2008 11:37:24 AM

OMG TALK ABOUT AWKWARD ROOMMATE MOMENTS AMIRITE

4/5/2008 11:38:42 AM

could have made a bit more money if he'd used rocks instead of pennies.

4/5/2008 11:38:59 AM

where's his neck?

4/5/2008 11:39:42 AM

what a fine student

4/5/2008 11:40:03 AM

snitches get stitches

4/5/2008 11:41:37 AM

facebook'd

4/5/2008 11:42:31 AM

^plz post

That may lead to this guys tdub ID.

4/5/2008 11:50:45 AM

4/5/2008 11:58:44 AM

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1402380287&hiq=max%2Cmyrick

4/5/2008 11:58:46 AM

How in the fucktuck did this guy not think he was gonna get caught?

dumbass.

4/5/2008 12:00:11 PM

4/5/2008 12:01:19 PM

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"AIM: uncfanfoeva07 "

4/5/2008 12:01:48 PM

4/5/2008 12:01:50 PM

4/5/2008 12:02:19 PM

haha check out the search warrant
http://wral.com/asset/news/local/2008/04/04/2683844/9192-ipod_warrant.pdf
and on page two this gem is found

Quote :

"There is an airplane sign with Max loves Donkey dick on the left"

4/5/2008 12:02:41 PM

big fan of the hip-hop, this one.

4/5/2008 12:03:02 PM

^^rofl

4/5/2008 12:03:54 PM

^^^LOL

4/5/2008 12:09:30 PM

white youths are really out of control, with their electric guitars and stealing,
they're whats wrong with this country

4/5/2008 12:13:20 PM

4/5/2008 12:16:53 PM

lol @ the search warrant

i have never read one before

4/5/2008 12:18:35 PM

Quote :

"could have made a bit more money if he'd used rocks instead of pennies."

hahaa winnar

4/5/2008 12:19:48 PM

Quote :

"Mr. Cox said that Max would tape a roll of pennies in the ox and return the box."

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 12:20 PM. Reason : in the search warrent ]

4/5/2008 12:20:37 PM

wait, so he didn't shrink rap the ipod boxes he was returning?

so all they had to do was open the box and see that it's a roll of pennies and not an ipod?

wow.

4/5/2008 12:24:37 PM

lolwut

4/5/2008 12:27:18 PM

i hope that's not his girlfriend at the football game. poor girl

4/5/2008 12:27:21 PM

what a dumb fuck

looks kinda like that CP fag Mincey

4/5/2008 12:31:58 PM

nah, he's single

4/5/2008 12:37:04 PM

looking through the search warrant again, it appears that both of them couldnt keep their shit togehter and both spilled it to the cops

4/5/2008 12:37:15 PM

Is there a certain dollar value that makes larceny a Felony?

If those are regular iPODs 10*$300=$3,000

Plus they probably have his computer now and can see how many others he stole by goign through his email

4/5/2008 12:46:17 PM

yea, if they hadn't hit up the same stores too many times they would have pulled it off a lot longer.

the warrant says the shrink wrap machine was used to "sell the ipods like new" which makes no sense. the shrink wrap machine was to rewrap the boxes to return the store "unopened"

4/5/2008 12:52:48 PM

that may be so, but you also advertise the iPods on ebay and such as factory wrapped/brand new and get much higher prices for them

4/5/2008 1:09:26 PM

Doesn't Best Buy/ Circuit City/ Target, keep track of what Mechandice you return?? So after the FIRST one came up with pennies.. couldn't they trace it back to him?? Are the bar codes for expensive stuff all the same? (per product) Or are they individualized?

4/5/2008 1:11:39 PM

umm. a bar code is for an individual product. dumbass

4/5/2008 1:13:25 PM

bitch is gettin choked

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 1:18 PM. Reason : ]

4/5/2008 1:15:44 PM

When I worked at Best Buy the registers scanned the serial number bar codes on ps2's but that was pretty much the only product we did that for.

I always wonder why they did not do that for other items because a lot of high end electronics have the serial number on the box with a corresponding bar code. The oldest trick in the book is when something breaks and they still sell it go buy the same thing and return the old one in the box as not working.

4/5/2008 1:17:32 PM

its easy to track this sort of stuff.

the UPC/ Item number only helps the store keep track of the independant item.

However, shrink reports are published weekly that show discrepancies in ON HAND numbers versus STOCK numbers, as well as Sales and Return transactions.

After these, you research the sales transactions (computerized versions of register receipts, searchable by item number, payment type, or by individual register) and pull each and every log. If paid for by credit card, it's VERY easy to catch, because the same numbers come up all the time. If not, then you pull the receipt of the penny ipod, watch it over CCTV, and get the guy's description, and if possible, license plate from his vehicle.

From there you can gather evidence and nail the guy.

It's pretty easy once you know how the record keeping systems work. I did it for about 3 years before coming to law school. good times.

4/5/2008 1:40:46 PM

i busted up in quite a few broads in bowen

4/5/2008 1:42:02 PM

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"umm. a bar code is for an individual product. dumbass"

yeah that guy's really a dumbass for not knowing the details of retail barcodes. nevermind that you can't count to 7.

4/5/2008 1:43:32 PM

"barcode" doesn't tell you much in particular

it could be a serial number

or product number

or IMEI

or activation code

4/5/2008 1:45:18 PM

is this guy really dumb enough to think that every single item in the store has a unique bar-code? There are easily a million items in a store.

4/5/2008 1:46:37 PM

barcode, no... but on high dollar items, depending on vendor regulations, are sometimes sold with unique product ID's...

4/5/2008 1:48:05 PM

some products just have a product ID = you can't tell the difference between each one

ipods have serial numbers on them though that are scanned at checkout, so they do in fact know about each individual ipod they have in stock. =

[Edited on April 5, 2008 at 1:49 PM. Reason : serial #'s in addition to product ID numbers that is, obviously]

4/5/2008 1:48:37 PM

awesome

4/5/2008 1:59:31 PM