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Teen Claims Kidnappers Forced Him to Buy PS3 at Walmart

by Amar Toor on November 16, 2009 at 02:07 PM

Used to be, back in the golden years of kidnapping, abductors would only demand a ransom in exchange for their victims. Nowadays, though, as the video game generation matures into criminal adulthood, typical demands are becoming a bit more... peculiar.

Teenager Kyle Yarkosky, of Florida, claims that a fellow teen named David Daniels and another unnamed suspect abducted him last Monday, held him at gunpoint, and forced him to buy a PlayStation 3. Allegedly, Yarkosky was walking down the street when the two suspects pulled to the side, forced him into their truck, and took his stepfather's credit card. Naples News reports that the trio then drove to Wal-Mart, where Daniels had intentions of buying a gun. Seeing the gun counter closed (Don't you just hate when that happens?), they decided to get a PS3 instead, on Yarkosky's bill. (If you can't shoot real people, you might as well shoot fake ones, right?)

Somewhere, Buffalo Bill is shaking his head in disgust. [From: Naples News, via Joystiq]

Tags: crime, kidnapping, ps3, top, videogames, walmart, weird

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