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.

There's big money in video games. And easier to sell on the street than cigarettes in today's market, I bet!

Now I feel small-time for planning on how to steal from a McDonalds truck for Monopoly game pieces.

One of my Zombie Plans back home required hijacking a beer truck.

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.

The comments on the article even include a Shadow Run-esque conspiracy implication. Activision was behind the heists!

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.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.

True, but that doesn't mean I don't want to base a run off of it!

Oh, not denying that.

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.

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...

Strange, I'd expect EA .

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.

Actually, it was a pre-arranged deal with a good friend and his family.

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.

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.

Great, now I have to see if Dad's old books made it here. Damnit.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. LOL

I think it's your turn, CanRay. We can't let too many people catch on...

Nah, as soon as we poped open the cargo we know a response team would have been on the way, the truck was being tracked on the grid. To jam the signal would have alerted them, we decided to get them to stop for something completely routine THEN perform the smash and grab. We passed a response team heading there as we fled and it would have not been fun getting away with the whole truck. Just had to deal with an astral signature vial on the cargo (toss out window then change course) but that was found rather fast.

I forget what exact make and model, but I want to say it was one of those secure armored cars that had isolated crew / cargo compartments, 2door front, 1 double rear. Not a true tractor trailer but large enough that it had to follow the trucking rules of the road

I think for our case because it was crossing boundaries they couldn't have an armed tail. Some of the details were fuzzy as this was years back (3rd btw). But I recall there was about a 15-20 mile strip which was the ideal spot to hit and there happened to be a weigh station that was down for the season.

Right, just because he's in Canada.

DO YOU KNOW HOW BIG THIS COUNTRY IS?

Big enough to easily loose a few dozen transport trucks a day and have nobody know.

We always catch our man...! Our trucks.... Not so much.

That only works in some provinces and territories. Ontario and Quebec have their own Provincial Police... I'm not going to comment on them.

Yeah. Which is why you should do it. I'm not going to go all the way into Canada for one person I'll never be able to find.

There's little that would ever motivate me to invade or go to Canada willingly. I've been offered bribes of free vacations to go & still said no.

What's wrong with Canada? It's not like the wildlife is trying to kill you like Australia.

Maybe not all the wildlife. I've still not seen health bars for the moose yet, but I'm waiting on it.

What's wrong with Canada? Going there would kill the dream. I imagine that right now you are reading this text using one hand to hold an ax over one shoulder while the other hand strokes your huge beard, stopping just long enough to drink some maple syrup.

Same reason people don't come to Texas. They like the idea of me going to school on a horse.

Health bar? Longer than most modern cars.I live in a city, no need for an axe (Although I do have an Entrenching Tool for emergencies), it's just starting to be winter here so I'm just starting to grow my beard (And it does get huge), and you don't drink Maple Syrup straight.

You mix 'Shine with it, or Vodka if you're one of those fancified folk. I also like it in my tea. Much healthier for you than refined sugar, especially as my Aunt knows the families that make it.Had a friend of mine that did a lot of contract work in Texas. It's big American sedans, SUVs, Pick-Ups, and so on with bull horns on the hood, as I understand.

In tea? Never thought of that. We're honey and tea people, when it's not just iced with sugar. Now vodka is interesting since I love vodka. And yes, there are large vehicles with horns but to be fair to a stereotype I have ridden a horse to school. The battery in my car was dead and I had to get to class. School was pissed.

Win...

Like people believe that Brazil is a huge Rain Forest, that we have to run away from monkeys, we move around on vines, and our only exports are super models, hookers and soccer athletes?

But my dream is to find a super model who rides me like a hooker who can kick a soccer ball while swinging on a vine!

You export more than Hookers? Who would have thought...

Not to overly congratulate real-life thieves, but it sounds like these "runners" pulled this one off nice and smoothly.

*Snort* Low-Grade 'Runners. At least they didn't use firearms.

So Sir Twist did this run?

Possibly. Gotta pay the bills, and the payoff would be good even after taking into consideration devaluation of stolen goods and splitting the take. Yeah, this is a Twist-Style job, especially if the Johnson didn't want any deaths, and needed to make sure of that.

He lost out on a lot of jobs, but the ones he did got him respect.

Moose Shifter Street Sam?

Worse, Moose Shifter Shaman backed up by a Wolf Shapechanger Pack of Physical Adepts.

That would be an interesting team, if only for fluff value, a pack of wolf-shifters. I would love to be in a group like that. Or like the game Too Human, a pack of wolves and a single bear.

There's a pack of Wolf Shapechangers in one of my stories, and another that hasn't been seen yet.

Sorry pal, you can only have 2 of these 4.



Actually, currently our major exports nowadays are iron ore, aircrafts, ethanol, foodstuff, super models, hookers and soccer athletes and specialized labor who wants to leave this hole (myself included).

Heh... Good to know...