Guy Busted for Stealing WiFi at NYC Library — to Play Halo

By Owen Good (Edit, to draft, Slurp)

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In a public library, a dude sitting at a monitor with his hands in his lap, covered by a newspaper, implicitly means bad things. Fear not, he's only sneaked in an Xbox to steal the free WiFi and play Halo.

The tumbelog teendrama picked this up - the writer's pal spied the multiplayer shenanigans in the New York Public Library. The guy above brought in a monitor, Xbox, wireless router, what looks like a Turtle Beach Ear Force gaming headset (I have one), and an external hard drive. His controller is concealed by yesterday's New York Post.

"He proceeded to play Quake/Halo/Call of Duty," says the photographer, "some nerd fighter game while yelling out instructions to his 'teammates.'"

Small wonder then, that it "took him 20 minutes to set it all up. Took him 2 minutes to get kicked out."

Awesome. Grellan Spies a Guy Who Snuck an Xbox

T3H C3LL would have been more stealthy, bad choice silly gamer. No one would have caughtr you if you were playing MGS4. :)

I don't know why it's so bad, unless he was being overly loud or didn't have a membership... Shit, kids go into my library to play WoW and RuneScape (blegh). No-one does anything to them. They just have an hour time limit.

I can't see why this would be against the rules, tbh, if it's wifi then it means that he's not unplugging another connection for it.

Better in the libraries than on the streets, that's what I say.

this isn't stealing. This is abuse of free service. They are very different. gosh this PR crap about stealing when it's not is getting out of hand. He has taken nothing in regards to anything that would cost serious money. Maybe a a dollar in bandwidth.

I give this guy the "Waaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy To Much Effort" Award for the year lol!

That's horrible.

lol. funniest thing i've ever seen.

lol this made my day

ROFLMAO...this story made my day!