Stolen Xbox 360 Returned by Moron; Web Dogs Called Off

March 26th, 2008 | Category: Gaming News

Four days. That’s how towering it took for the wrath of the Net community to cause a moron to cave and return a stolen Xbox 360 to its rightful owner. You may recall an interesting tale recently where a man named Jesse McPherson returned home to find his house had been burglarized and his TV, laptop, and Xbox 360 had been stolen. Not only that, but soon after he began receiving harassing voice messages on his new console from a person claiming to be the thief. So he did what anyone familiar with the powers of the Web would do and sent the Web after the thief by posting his story and the kid’s Xbox Live detail online. After the story got picked up by Digg, the World Wide Web community leapt into action and managed to find out the kid’s real name, address, high school, phone number, AIM name, etc. next they pretty much began harassing him continuous by the weekend, leading the kid to hand-deliver the laptop back to its owner.

Well, now that story seems to have reached a somewhat happy conclusion as McPherson has reported that his Xbox has now been returned safe and sound. The kid’s mom dropped the console off on his doorstep

wrapped in a white trash bag and thereupon called him to tell him it was there. McPherson plus said that the police now have a lead on the actual robber and “seem to be doing their job,” as opposed to before when he pretty much gift-wrapped a lead for them and had the door slammed in his face. But since he’s got his 2/3 of his stuff back, he asked the admin behind the wiki page with all the kid’s personal info to remove all the composition; and they seem to have complied. And Web justice has prevailed.

Via McPherson’s Blog [image via Weird Asia News]

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