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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-December 02 Member No.: 3,782 ![]() |
http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/07/thieves-...dern-warfare-3/
Truckload of Modern Warefare 3 hijacked, different cargo but still a classic run setup. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
There's big money in video games. And easier to sell on the street than cigarettes in today's market, I bet!
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
Now I feel small-time for planning on how to steal from a McDonalds truck for Monopoly game pieces.
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
One of my Zombie Plans back home required hijacking a beer truck.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 673 Joined: 9-May 08 Member No.: 15,965 ![]() |
As much as I love beer, or ale, I would have to steal wine and scotch. Things that will last as long as my willpower will.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 29-April 10 Member No.: 18,522 ![]() |
The comments on the article even include a Shadow Run-esque conspiracy implication. Activision was behind the heists!
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
As much as I love beer, or ale, I would have to steal wine and scotch. Things that will last as long as my willpower will. I was grabbing what would be a valuable commodity that I would have traded for an even more valuable commodity. You take what the market wants.The comments on the article even include a Shadow Run-esque conspiracy implication. Activision was behind the heists! Wouldn't put it past a company doing something like this for publicity, but I'd have thought they'd have done it in a different place, so it's more likely to be a legit hijacking.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 167 Joined: 29-April 10 Member No.: 18,522 ![]() |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Oh, not denying that.
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,705 Joined: 5-October 09 From: You are in a clearing Member No.: 17,722 ![]() |
By the way, if there's a Microsoft store anywhere near you, you can get MW3 and $50 worth of gift cards for $55.
If you preorder from Microsoft, you get a $25 card, and if you show up to the midnight launch party at a Microsoft store to pick it up, you get another $25 gift card. Not quite the same as getting the game for 5 bux, but close. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 4-December 09 Member No.: 17,940 ![]() |
I was grabbing what would be a valuable commodity that I would have traded for an even more valuable commodity. You take what the market wants. though in zombie apocalypse situations, trying to trade beer for guns and ammo looks like a good way to end with with no guns and no beer... |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 ![]() |
The comments on the article even include a Shadow Run-esque conspiracy implication. Activision was behind the heists! Strange, I'd expect EA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) . |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 ![]() |
Strange, I'd expect EA (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) . Nah, they just force you to use Orgin, figure that's criminal enough. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 770 Joined: 19-August 11 From: Middle-Eastern Europe Member No.: 36,268 ![]() |
Nah, they just force you to use Orgin, figure that's criminal enough. Diversification, man! Steal the shipment of competing game, so people buy your shit, sign up to your oppressive service, bam, two for the price of one! Also, "on-rails shooter and popular multiplayer" - that's a below-the-belt strike worthy of Saints' Row The Third. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
though in zombie apocalypse situations, trying to trade beer for guns and ammo looks like a good way to end with with no guns and no beer... Actually, it was a pre-arranged deal with a good friend and his family. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) They also knew they'd need more hands to help with protection, as well as security and just general labor, so it wasn't a matter of trading beer for guns, it was trading beer and manhours for security, food, and firearms. It's not who you know, it's who knows you. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-December 02 Member No.: 3,782 ![]() |
For those getting inspired to make this into a run of their own game I'll also share this tactic that our group used. We located a weigh station on the highway the truck was traveling that was not in use and got it working and did all procedures (thank you standard operating procedures manual). Target rolled in, had the drive come in to do some paperwork, stun to unconsciousness, grab what our client wanted from the truck (some art) and took off on the highway.
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Great, now I have to see if Dad's old books made it here. Damnit.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: 28-November 09 From: In ur ba5e, killin' ur d00dz. Member No.: 17,910 ![]() |
For those getting inspired to make this into a run of their own game I'll also share this tactic that our group used. We located a weigh station on the highway the truck was traveling that was not in use and got it working and did all procedures (thank you standard operating procedures manual). Target rolled in, had the drive come in to do some paperwork, stun to unconsciousness, grab what our client wanted from the truck (some art) and took off on the highway. Blog, that is evil. As a driver. As a strategist, however. Very good. "Driver, pull around for inspection and bring all your paperwork." *shudders* I hate hearing that phrase. Only downside. Did the truck have a tail? Most HiVal loads have a team in a non-descript car following the truck. And in some cases (viagra, even...) They may be(and often are) armed. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 23-December 02 Member No.: 3,782 ![]() |
Well one of our group members did drive trucks for a part of his life... so that helped with the decision.
The art collection in question wasn't something that high profile of a target to have an escort, Armored car, driver + armed guard. I suspect the piece had more value to the client then anything. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
Just don't try to pass off a load of toilets when you're really hauling illegal firearms. The scales will tell them you're lying as soon as they see what you're "Really" hauling. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 471 Joined: 7-November 10 Member No.: 19,155 ![]() |
Blog, that is evil. As a driver. As a strategist, however. Very good. "Driver, pull around for inspection and bring all your paperwork." *shudders* I hate hearing that phrase. Only downside. Did the truck have a tail? Most HiVal loads have a team in a non-descript car following the truck. And in some cases (viagra, even...) They may be(and often are) armed. The trick then, I think, would be to disguise one of your team as the driver (preferably the wheelman, with necessary hacker support to get around biometrics and whatever other security they've got), have them get in the truck, and then proceed to lose the tail (yeah, I know, losing a tail in a truck isn't going to be easy - unless you think in terms of stopping the tail, rather than maneuvering the truck itself) long enough to either unload the truck or swap trailers. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 328 Joined: 3-March 10 Member No.: 18,233 ![]() |
One of my Zombie Plans back home required hijacking a beer truck. Mine is raiding the distribution center featured here. It's huge, has tons of supplies, & it's own vehicle bays for loading/unloading. 1 stop shop for gas/fuel, food, drinks, & whatever else I could find there. |
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Immortal Elf ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 ![]() |
(yeah, I know, losing a tail in a truck isn't going to be easy - unless you think in terms of stopping the tail, rather than maneuvering the truck itself) The truck has a longer range than the car does. Wait until it has to pull in for fuel, stop next to it, then take off.Tail lost at least long enough to switch loads. "Oh, sorry, thought you were done." Works really well when the driver is in the can, too. FYI: Bring empty bottles so you don't have to visit the can. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 574 Joined: 22-June 09 From: Ucluelet - Tofino - Nanaimo Salish-Sahide Council Member No.: 17,309 ![]() |
I swear, some of you come up with such practical, pragmatic ideas that you really are professional non-corp takers and Shadowrun is fun for you because of future tech and magic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) LOL
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: 28-November 09 From: In ur ba5e, killin' ur d00dz. Member No.: 17,910 ![]() |
I swear, some of you come up with such practical, pragmatic ideas that you really are professional non-corp takers and Shadowrun is fun for you because of future tech and magic. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) LOL I think it's your turn, CanRay. We can't let too many people catch on... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wobble.gif) |
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