Buy an IPod for $4.99??

By Jon Heizer

“Police say Baldino used homemade bar codes to buy electronic gadgets at prices far below any legitimate discount. The 19-year-old is facing three counts of being naughty - one of them a Class 5 felony.

Baldino was detained by Target security Wednesday after he purchased a $150 iPod with a bar-code label of $4.99.”

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Busted, Baldino begged for a little yuletide forgiveness.

“I will NEVER EVER DO THIS EVER AGAIN and I am once more terribly sorry,” Baldino wrote in a statement for police. “Please let me go for I am terribly sorry!!! I’m only a kid! Help me out. I just want to go home. I did this not knowing of the serious penalty that lies behind it. Please! Please! Please!”

Nice try. It was a clever idea, but there is no way you are going to beg your way out of it. You are in college and you used a computer to create bar codes. They know you are not stupid…
TIP: Don’t try this at home.

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