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Check this out,  happened in my home country even:

 

According to reports, thieves stole a bolted-down PlayStation 4 from a children's cancer ward in Wellington, New Zealand. 

We have seen plenty of people get caught while stealing PlayStation 4s and after stealing for doing stupid things like shoving the PS4 in their pants or failing to disconnect the WiFi, heck, we've even seen a fox break into a house and eat a PlayStation controller - but we don't often see something as low as this.

The stolen PlayStation 4, had been donated to the hospital and was bolted to a moveable table in the oncology ward, but was removed last weekend. The device was meant to ease the stress of receiving chemotherapy and was used by about 15 patients that attended the day stay unit of the oncology ward.

"We are extremely disappointed that someone would choose to steal something used to occupy and cheer up children who are undergoing treatment," said Hospital general manager Chris Lowry.

"We can confirm that the device was unsecured from a trolley, and stolen sometime during the weekend. Given that hundreds of patients and visitors come through Wellington Regional Hospital every day, we sometimes experience instances of theft, despite our best efforts to prevent it."

Angus, a 9-year old who is nearly halfway through his 54-week chemotherapy treatment, is looking to raise money (you can find the details on that via the link to their FB page) to replace the console, saying, "I'm angry, and pretty annoyed because it was a good distraction for me, and other kids too.They took the game too, so the mansion I built on Minecraft is gone

 

http://www.gamezone.com/news/thieves-stole-a-bolted-down-playstation-from-children-s-cancer-ward-3450576

 



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Hope that Playstation 4 heats up and burn down the thief's home.



Any way of tracking the system when it connects to the internet?



Ka-pi96 said:
But... why?

Why would anyone intentionally steal a PS4 from a hospital for sick kids?

Scumbags,  common theft of people's belongs is quite common in NZ. 



"They took the game too, so the mansion I built on Minecraft is gone."

Your save game wasn't on the disc, genius! HAHAHAHA! 9 YEAR OLDS BTFO! 34 YEAR OLDS FTW!

He seems pretty stoked on people overseas sending him a new PS4, so there's a silver lining, I guess.



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That is LITERALLY a sick thing to do.



PS4 is a BEAST! Oh wait, that's not appropriate now.



BraLoD said:

Sadly it doesn't seem like the kid had TEH CLOUD storage, so even if the save wasn't on the disc as he thinks, se still lost his mansion.
Poor kid, got his PS4 and mansion stolen at the same time.

Yeah well, I had to replay Yakuza 5 because you don't get the trophy for playing on Normal if you play on Hard. We all have problems.



Seriously?! I mean WOW! Who the funk doesn't already own a PS4?



PC GAMING: BEST GAMES. WORST CONTROLS

A mouse & keyboard are made for sending email and typing internet badassery. Not for playing video games!!!

FentonCrackshell said:
Seriously?! I mean WOW! Who the funk doesn't already own a PS4?

This kid.