Gizmondo Exec arrested for Grand Theft Auto

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for those of you who have been following this weird story it just made a turn for the worse:

news.com said:
Stefan Eriksson, 44, was arrested in his swank Bel Air home yesterday, said Don Manumaleuna of the local sheriff's department.

He was held without bail under suspicion of grand theft auto, a charge that inspired a video game of the same name.

On February 21, Mr Eriksson's rare Ferrari Enzo, only 399 of which were ever made, was split in half and reduced to scrap in a mysterious high-speed crash in Los Angeles.

Mr Eriksson is suspected of illegally importing the red Ferrari, along with a black version of the same model and a $US400,000 ($550,000) Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren sports car that were reportedly leased by his former employer, Gizmondo Europe, which makes video-game players. Financial institutions claim ownership.

here's what's left of the $1 million enzo:

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here's all the info you need on this case

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=101856&highlight=gizmondo

http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=103423&highlight=gizmondo
 
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Oh my f*cking god!
 
Is jack Thompson already on it? :| Lol he'd prove himself to be an idiot for the *large number here*th time.
 
huh? he was charged with grand theft auto (car stealing). Thompson wouldnt give a rats ass unless he actually bludgeoned someone to death with a copy of GTA
 
I'm sure his half sister's cousin played GTA. Or something.
 
Charged with Grand Theft Auto? Oh please he didn't even get a two star police chase by the sounds of it.

This guys such a noob.
 
maybe he beat a couple of hookers with a baseball bat before stealing the car?
 
Or maybe, Jack sues him because he is showing children that you can survive a car crash with 160mph, after stealing the car.


... Ok I'll be quiet.
 
yes he is swedish, i was surprised by the fact that he was a criminal in sweden before coming to america:

"He was a well-known criminal in his native country where he is known by the Swedish police as Tjock-Steffe (or as Fat-Steve upon translation) or as The Banker by the local mob where his source of income were from criminal activities. Erikson owned a 40 ft speedboat called "Snow White" in the early 90's where it was docked at Uppsala. He was then caught out, found guilty of fraud and counterfeiting between 1993 and 1994 and sentenced to ten years in prison, only to serve half his sentence. He would leave his home country and went to England to start up the company Gizmondo which intended to rival Nintendo and Sony for the videogames market. The company had used up more than $300M and then filed for bankrupcy in Europe in 2005. The company also signed a sponsorship contract for the Jordan Grand Prix but Eddie Jordan had to sue him for $3M since the money never showed up."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Eriksson
 
which makes video-game players
They make Video game players? WTF does that mean.

And why even mention that a video game was named after a crime? Thats like saying, "the president choked on a pretzel - which was named after a Holland bakers daughter"

What in the F?

Oh, and you have to be a total dumb**** to total a hand made Ferrari - 1 of only 399 ever made. Dude you don't even drive these things if it's cloudy outside, in case you might get rain on it.
 
Shouldn't have capitalised "Grand Theft Auto", that's quite misleading.
 
it's misleading if you misread the title ..really are people that lazy that they cant read complete sentences?

"Gizmondo Exec arrested for Grand Theft Auto"

what else could it mean?
 
Just wondering why you would capitalize it... Calm down :p

And that's not a complete sentence, very few headlines are, for all we know you could mean "for possession of GTA" or "due to GTA"
 
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