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Mexican cops offer Xboxes for guns

Mark_T

Badges? weee don need no steeenkin badges ! 

Posted Wednesday 28th March 2007 11:51 GMT

Would it be churlish of me to point out that a machine gun can very likely be purchased for considerably less than $769 ?

So, buy a machine gun, have the coppers upgrade it to a PC, pop it on Ebay and get....

Anonymous Coward

Now that's forward planning.. 

Posted Wednesday 28th March 2007 13:59 GMT

..get their guns off them BEFORE you give them Vista.

John L. Lee

A better trade. 

Posted Thursday 29th March 2007 12:56 GMT

I am traveling to Mexico to offer gun's for X-Boxes.

Hein Kruger

why give up the gun? 

Posted Friday 30th March 2007 16:06 GMT

It doesn't make sense. Surely a gangster with a machine gun would be able to help himself to as many PCs and Xboxes as he wants, without having to give up the machine gun. I thought that's why criminals have guns in the first place?

Dean

cyber theft 

Posted Tuesday 3rd April 2007 08:24 GMT

Now they can track their whole cocain inventory by computer