6,000 copies of Modern Warfare 3 stolen in French heist - Report

say yes!

Props to the two badasses who pulled it off

where is this truck?? :-)

Those must be people from EA

Well, now a few ppl got their hands on MW3 a day before it's release and 6,000 ppl didn't need to pay 60$ to the cashier

They're probably using them for target practice so they can pull off a better heist.

...and everyone kept saying that GTA series are giving us gamers a bad influence? There's another news in another site of a pre-order customer threatening to blow up best buy cuz they ran out of copies...

Good - they kept 6,000 more retards from wasting their money. Not sure I've ever said this but props to you frenchies.

why couldn't it have been battlefield 3, but then again battlefield 3 isn't to important

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They're doing COD in Real life

They hijacked the van, and then found out it was MW3. They were so let down, they dumped the van in La Senne (french river going through Paris) with it's Cargo. Alright, I kid around, but that's how I am imagining it happened :p.

>:D

Lucky for the French.lol..Now BF3 on the other hand would of caused an international crisis..

What slack jawed delivery company has 6,000 video games in a van? It would have to be an insidfe job or an insurance scam.

@JudgeSim hahahahahburn

Marvel: well done zakhaev, i see the mission went well. Zakhaev: It was a piece of cake. my sniper took out the driver from a good vantage point, so taking the merchandise from the van was like taking a candy from a baby.....well... actually its not easy taking a candy from a baby unless you want to die of dreadfull screams.

french people must love mw3

Its sad to see kiddy fanboy wars.... what make me sick was they said MW3 sucks and all that but in the end, the spend their life playing it... stop acting. Sales figure tells everything

i smell B.S.

I bet they are already bored

no one hijacked a battlefield truck. i guess because it would be like hijacking copper over gold.

Awesome community of CoD fans you got there, Activision....

HEY MOM IT IS JUST LIKE IN MY VIDEO GAME!

poor guys. I'm really sorry for them

November 5!?!...This article would've been so much better if it was reported that the robbers were wearing Guy Fawkes masks, lol

all the answers are c

Didn't something like this happen with a MW2 shipment back in 2009? Geez, people will go to deep ends for CoD games. Its quite pathetic...

Wow. Sell it to fans days earlier for a higher price. Figure 6000 * 80Euro each. That's quite a profit of 480000.

i guess they will be using them for warming their living room as fire :D

Lol What if they stole all Wii Versions of the game, The looks on their faces would be priceless!!!!!!!!!

@Spahettificator You're speaking largely to Americans, so no. As far as most of us are concerned, France never did anything but surrender to villains, then get bailed out by us heroic 'mericans (we don't like history).

I do not like activision, but this is very uncool, sucks for all the people who wont be able to get the game.

Happy activision will lose money? insurance.. or they weren't activisions delivery men, so they will face the bill. - 6000 people, and however many pre-orders, wont get the game they paid for. Doesn't matter if you don't like CoD, a lot of people do and that sucks to not get the game. probably wont take long for them to get replaced, but still it sucks. At least (at most) the CoD fans only had to wait a year for the title to come out; 2 if you count back to MW2. :) Seriously though, with the ENORMOUS amount of hate on the webs for CoD.... Where's all of cods sales coming from? ;)

ABSOLUTE LADS!

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why are ppl tripping over this game trying to get it early. got this game for 5bucks over a week ago. get smart ppl

Ha, I heard some amusing story of how a guy paid over $1000 for an early copy of Modern Warfare 3 on Ebay. It was on the 4th, but the thing that puts a smile on my face is that it is going to take 3-4 working days before it gets to him XD.

They stole the wrong game jackwagons but then again . . . they did steal over 400 euros of Activision's pocket.

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@Spahettificator Well, yeah, but, really? Come on. The French Resistance? Isn't that an oxymoron? Of course, I kid. :D

Are you kidding me?

I wouldn't be surprised if Bobby Kotick himself was behind this. When he heard that people were actually paying upwards of 12 thousand dollars for it on eBay, he just had to find a way to get in on that action.

@CptRexKramer Never heard of the French Resistance? :P

@Wrecked69 Ahhh, yeah I misread. I thought it said they crashed a van into a truck containing the games. Thanks for the correction :)

@supertom221 I bet they "Camped" Out all night waiting for that truck. I guess CoD is a bad influence. O.o

@Gladiator_Sofi Okay, I admi it, I frickin' LOL'd.

Oh, Like this is some big news. It was to be expected. Besides, MW3 has been available for more over a month now on all major sites. Here's something to let you all know, though you probably already did: Thestory is short and dissapointing. Not a suprise, I know.