Your average game console thief isn't a rocket scientist. This guy certainly wasn't.

After this news spreads to the internet population, daring thiefs will take extra caution and search around for additional controllers, and this method will be rendered obsolete.

We need a local version of Facebook meets Crimewatch. Put all local crooks on there, with their addresses.

Then we will all know who to avoid, who to ban from the local shops, who to exclude for public events etc.

Exclusion from all local services would be a great way to reduce crime, imo.

I expect if a criminal was excluded from tv, mobile phone, broadband, shops, restaurants, pubs, public transport, parking, etc then that would make crime an unattractive thing to do.