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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Crime / Film So That's Where Disc Four of Freaks & Geeks Disappeared To...

Posted by on Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:07 PM

Take it away, Associated Press:

Mass. postal worker pleads guilty to stealing 30,000-plus DVDs sent by Netflix to customers

A former postal service employee has pleaded guilty to stealing more than 30,000 DVDs that moved through a western Massachusetts post office. Myles Weathers, formerly of Springfield, took DVDs that were mailed by Netflix to customers for a year beginning in January 2007. Federal prosecutors say the movie rental company alerted Springfield post office officials that a suspiciously high number of DVDs were disappearing....

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Urgutha Forka 1
They didn't get suspicious until he'd stolen thirty-fucking-thousand of them?!?

The post office is bad... but not THAT bad!
Posted by Urgutha Forka on September 22, 2009 at 12:16 PM
The Amazing Jim 2
He's probably the reason why you can't get Kurosawa's 'Ran'.
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on September 22, 2009 at 12:21 PM
care bear 3
Why? Why would you steal 30,000 DVDs?
Posted by care bear on September 22, 2009 at 12:23 PM
4
@3. So you could have 30,000 dvds, man.
Posted by LNic on September 22, 2009 at 12:25 PM
Beetlecat 5
even selling them for $1 each at yard sales, etc would earn quite a bit :)
Posted by Beetlecat on September 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Sir Vic 6
I hope they are checking his cell phone records for the connection to his fence. He had to be re-selling these to the black market.
Of course, given that he was a postal worker, he could just be bat-shit crazy and was hoarding them.
Posted by Sir Vic on September 22, 2009 at 12:40 PM
7
I recently got a Netflix mailer a few days late that clearly had been opened and scotch-taped back together. Can't remember what it was, but I am sure whomever opened it was disappointed.
Posted by obscure taste in movies on September 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM
8
He only has to pay $38,000 in restitution? Okaayyy.
Posted by keshmeshi on September 22, 2009 at 12:47 PM
very bad homo 9
He could at least send them back when he's done watching them.
Posted by very bad homo on September 22, 2009 at 1:03 PM
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@8

Yeah, if he was reselling these he probably still turned a profit.
Posted by Asparagus! on September 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM
michael strangeways 11
who would buy a scratched up, thumbprinty, Netflix movie without a case?
Posted by michael strangeways http://www.seattlegayscene.com/ on September 22, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Fnarf 12
I hope they were able to get an episode of "Hoarders" out of him before they busted him.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on September 22, 2009 at 3:46 PM

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