"Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect's house -- mountains of Lego bricks.
William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, Nevada, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks."
Sometimes the news is just weird. Grand Theft Lego? Uhhh... Okay. His scam was fairly brilliant, yet risky at the same time. An astute employee of these target stores might have noticed that the usual $99 lego set was coming up on the register as some much cheaper (it's not stated exactly what the price was).
They must think he's a huge threat holding him for 1/2 a million dollars in bail. If it were less, he might do something dangerous like go to the local Target and try to buy Lego at half price. Phew! I feel safe now.
"Records of the Lego collector's Web site, Bricklink.Com, show that Swanberg has sold nearly $600,000 worth of Legos since 2002, said Dolyniuk."
There's your mistake right there! If you're going to sell stolen property through your website, you're going to get caught. Just ask 0.00001% of ebay users. He did manage, though, to make $600,000 in three years, so I shouldn't make too much fun. Imagine, if you will, how much money he might have made if he would have sold his wares out of the back of a 1976 Cadillac somewhere in New York City. "Yo, yo, I gots some Lego here, man. I gots some Lego. Wanna buy some Lego? I'll give it to you cheap!"
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