Thieves use 20,000 euros expensive fake

If you still have a Game Boy, you may want this as a collectible piece or uses it for nostalgic retro game sessions with Tetris and Super Mario Land. By contrast, cars have never been crazy. However, a thieves trio from Yorkshire already. At least the device she used to look like a Game Boy, but was of course faked. What was behind the façade, you will learn here.

Carpins in seconds

It s about it: BBC reports that a gear of autodieben in Yorkshire has been caught with a Game Boy , the vehicles can unlock in seconds. Of course, it is not really a real Nintendo handheld, but a very special device, which was hidden in a fake game boy shell.

The device should be approximately 23,000 euros. Although this is a lot of money, but according to BBC, the thieves have loved vehicles worth more than 200,000 euros. The fake Game Boy bypasses the security systems of modern cars and is able to unlock and start them. However, as Kotaku reports, it is programmed to a very specific model, in this case on Mitsubishi Outlanders.

According to Kotaku, the Game Boy Case was a fake Supreme Case offered on pages like Taobabo or Wish with large quantities of bootleg games and enjoy great popularity.

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The end of the story

If that is refined in the first moment and cool like sound, it was said that the story for the thieves did not go well. They were ultimately transferred to the help of surveillance camera material. The wrong game boy was discovered in a secret pocket of your private car. On the mobile phone of one of the men was also found a video on which he demonstrates and explains the Fake Game Boy.

All three thieves were sentenced to imprisonment between 22 and 30 months. Det Insp Vicky Veeseey from the West Yorkshire Police also points to the BBC towards the damage that the men have caused. She speaks of the complete disregard of the victims whose hard-deserved vehicles were snapped away in seconds .

It becomes particularly clear that by the make-ready tone, which is heard on the video. Then rather Tetris or Mario Zock - and let anyone get damaged.

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