Man says console taken at gunpoint

What is our world coming to when people are threatening people's lives for a video game system?

Man says console taken at gunpoint: "Man says console taken at gunpoint
CPCC student says he camped out for 2 nights to get a game system
RYAN BASEN
rbasen@charlotteobserver.com

Brandon Brown planned to buy and then sell the new PlayStation 3 for a profit. Instead, the 20-year-old SouthPark resident found himself staring into the barrel of a shotgun.
Brown was one of several people nationwide, including a UNC Wilmington student, robbed of a PlayStation 3 video game console since their release Friday.
Sony released just 400,000 PlayStation 3 consoles in the United States. Dozens of consoles, which retail for $500 or $600 depending on the model, sold for well over $1,000 on eBay on Saturday.
Brown planned to take advantage of that demand. He slept in front of the Best Buy store in Pineville on Wednesday and Thursday nights, and purchased a PlayStation 3 on Friday morning. He then drove home.
About 8:30 a.m., as he was preparing to unlock the front door, he heard a voice order him to turn around. When he turned, Brown saw a shotgun pointed at him about 18 inches away. The man holding the shotgun, clad in a hooded sweatshirt and red bandana, demanded the console and warned Brown not to resist.
The robber, whom Brown describes as a light-skinned black male, snatched the PlayStation 3 and fled.
He drove an early 1990s faded red Buick, with a different-colored passenger door, Brown said.
Brown, a part-time Central Piedmont Community College student and server at a SouthPark seafood restaurant, filed a police report Friday morning.
'I think Sony needs to change their production techniques,' Brown said. 'Releasing so few (consoles) causes a lot of chaos.'
Police could not be reached for comment Saturday."