VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam
An executive at a Palo Alto software giant was charged Monday with four felony counts of burglary, after authorities said he allegedly made his own bar code...
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An executive at a Palo Alto software giant was charged Monday with four felony counts of burglary, after authorities said he allegedly made his own bar code...
Multimillion-dollar home used his love of lego and computers to rip off target stores. this is him captured repeatedly on store surveillance cameras with expensive lego sets in the cart. detectives say he did something called a ticket switch changing out the price by allegedly putting his own bar code stickers on boxes so he could pay less. a $249 millennium falcon set, for example, for just $49. police photos from a search of his home showed dozens of home made bar codes neatly organized. plus stacks and stacks of brand new lego sets. >> it certainly looks like an ongoing enterprise and to th...
Welcome back, everybody. here's a real puzzling story. a vice president from a major tech company has now been arrested for ripping off legos. >> couldn't he afford them? >> i don't get this. >> was it a compulsion, a desire to beat the system or just greed. neal karlinsky puts the pieces together. >> reporter: police say it's a scheme more complex than a lego death star set. the building blocks this time include a 47-year-old silicon valley tech executive named thomas langenbach, a home computer and printer, and lots of lego. >> believe it or not, this will be our first tech executive in a le...