Copper stole my XBox

RED FACED coppers at the Orange County Sheriff's Office are trying to explain why one of its deputies walked off with someone else's XBox after pulling him over for speeding.

The owner, Kenyatta Hillman, says he was in a car that got pulled over for speeding in Florida, but instead of issuing a speeding ticket the deputy nicked his XBox.

The coppers claim that they pulled Hillman over and searched the car because they claimed they smelled marijuana. No wicked weed was found but they did spot an XBox with eight games. Hillman believes he was stopped because he's poor, because of the way he looks and because he has a funny haircut.

Of course the fact he is black has nothing to do with it. However the copper assumed that someone with that sort of haircut must have stolen the console.

The deputy ran a check on serial numbers but it did not come up as being reported stolen.

He told Hillman he wanted to make sure no one reported it stolen. Deputies told Eyewitness News there had been a lot of burglaries in the area and Xbox systems are hot. Everyone knows Xboxes are hot, it has something to do with the poor cooling system.

However coppers decided to take the console 'just in case' it turned out to be stolen.

This is a novel police tactic. You have no evidence that equipment is stolen, but you can take it anyway. On that basis we would have thought that coppers could empty a large number of people's homes on the basis that some gear might be stolen.

Hillman said that the copper told him that when he offered to show his receipt and box the gear came with then 'we'll meet someplace, you show me your receipt and I'll give you your game."

This is a little worrying as how many people would have the box, or the receipt for their hardware. In this case Hillman did, and showed up at the cop shop with both.

They told him that since there was no arrest, there was no police file, no case, and no Xbox.

After the television company started ringing the police station the Xbox mysteriously reappeared and he will be able to pick it up next week. µ
L'Inq
WFT