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11-year-old boys use sledgehammer to steal videogames

Posted Jul 25, 2007 at 6:05AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: News Tags: surveillance

Milwaukee residents are scratching their heads at the videogame-related crime to happen in their midst - one involving two 11-year-old boys, a sledgehammer, and the Target store branch located at 8501 Brown Deer Road. Nope, no one was hurt - except for a glass case that held the store's stock of videogames, of course.

Surveillance camera footage shows the two boys breaking into the store with a sledgehammer in tow. Seemingly no older than 11 years of age each, they made a beeline to the electronics department, specifically where the videogames were kept.

Using their weapon of choice, they break open the glass case containing the store's display of videogames. They take one single videogame - it's not yet known just what game it was - and then make their leave.

Police say the boys didn't steal anything else, much to the puzzlement of customers and shop owners everywhere, as well as raising a lot of questions. How did the boys get their hand on a sledgehammer, for instance? And how did they get past the store's security? It may be a while until we know, as the suspects themselves are still at large, and those with information are asked to contact the authorities.

Certainly quite a shocking bit of news. Updates as we get them.

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The store must have retarded security people. Even though the sledgehammer is small, and can be hidden in the kid's pants, you should still be able to tell. Also, didn't anyone hear the glass breaking, and come running to see what happened? Didn't anyone notice two suspicious looking kids walk out a store? If I were in charge of security at that Target, I would have caught them.

# cool — Guest 2007-07-25 07:20

damn some master 11 year old theifs there cool i wanna be like them when i grow up

# Retards — Guest 2007-07-25 07:29

if you want to be like them u are retarded because the only thing they stole is one game i would of jack as much stuff as i can

# target — Guest 2007-07-25 07:38

you can take a sledgehammer from inside the store, they didn't sneak it in...the store has to sell some type of sledge hammer. And I would of brought a backpack and taken psp's ds's and games and sold em to gamestop..

# cube — Guest 2007-07-25 07:42

Where did they get the hammer?

I bet Jack Thompson was outside and paid them to do it

But seriously, the media will love this one... I mean, if a kid breaks into a shop and steals the money, they'd blame it on video games all the same.

There was a story when a teenager killed another teenager... they found GTA in his room and therefore they decided that GTA was to blame... I reckon a pretty large proportion of teenage boys have a version of GTA...

# ~ — Guest 2007-07-25 07:43

the kid's parents should be jailed, for failing to properly raise their child

# Target suks — Guest 2007-07-25 07:56

their security is lame and the kids probably stole Gears of War because they're mom didn't want to buy one for them. And how do the police know that both of them were 11 y old?? They'll probably be caught tommorrow

# target sucks — Guest 2007-07-25 08:04

whoa didnt the alarm go off or something??

that target really must be lazy i mean can't they even catch 2 11-year old kids? and i agree with "idiots" they are so retarded. why would steal only 1 game??? i would gotten all consoles and sell them on ebay for 200 bucks each. dumba sses

# wait a min... — Guest 2007-07-25 08:18

The article says they broke into the store with a sledehammer and then broke the glass stealing one game.

If they broke into the store, that means there wasn't anyone there beside the surveillance camera.

So no need to talk about whether someone heard or saw anything and no need to bash the security... they were happily sleeping.

# umm — Guest 2007-07-25 08:21

how would they hide it? lol one game is easy to hide but they're 11 so eh.

# . — GamerGuyDude 2007-07-25 08:22

Would have been much easier to just download the game, yes?

# ... — Guest 2007-07-25 08:25

The kid could've simply went the the tools section and picked their sledge of choice.

# ... — Guest 2007-07-25 08:53

Theif rule #1: Do not take more than what is necessary

# Lol... — Guest 2007-07-25 09:04

Thick Thick Thick Wankers

# Great... — Guest 2007-07-25 09:16

Gotta love my neighbors making national news for stupid crap again. That's the same Target store I shop at. For reference for the people not from around here, this isn't a very good part of town. It's better than it was for a while, but still not good. Pretty high crime around here. 3/4 times when you hear about stupid crap from Milwaukee on local or national news, it's from this side of town. Friggin' rocket scientists around here, I tells ya...

Also, I'm not 11. LOL. I'm 30. And I'm not from here originally. I'm from a small town in NW Illinois.

# Great... — Guest 2007-07-25 09:18

# Great... — Guest 2007-07-25 09:24

My great neighbors making the national news for stupid shyte again. Gotta love it. I shop at that same Target store. Seems like 3/4 of the time you hear about crime from Milwaukee on local or national news, it's from the north side in or near this neighborhood.

I bet this is the same grade/middle school *****-stick that keeps breaking the fence behind my house (I live across the street from Brown Deer Middle School).

# Thanks for the racism, but... — Guest 2007-07-25 09:27

You're probably right. I live in this neighborhood and it's about 75-80% black. And it happens to be one of the higher crime areas of town.

# . — Guest 2007-07-25 09:29

Would have been much easier to just stfu and buy the game.

# ^^^ Impersonator!!! !! — Guest 2007-07-25 09:52

I am the real Mister Common Sense!!!! I dunno how u got my password but u changed it, so i cant log in now!!

# I bet.. — Guest 2007-07-25 10:35

I bet the kids who keep breaking the fence and stole that game at Target where foodstamp-using, black-ass, law-breaking, drug-taking/making, non-working, scandalous, N.I.G.G.E.R.S like the ones in California.

# I like — Guest 2007-07-25 10:36

BALLS BIG *****EN BALLS!

# My son... — Guest 2007-07-25 11:31

Your going to hell you racist faaaaaaagot and I hope you get gangbanged for all eternity by the foodstamp-using, black-ass, law-breaking, drug-taking/making, non-working, scandalous, N.I.G.G.E.R.S like the ones in California.

# it easy — Guest 2007-07-25 12:26

just go to the hardware apartment in walmart pick up hammer look around no one looking and make sure no one around an pick up then go to to the video game apartment and hit the glass and get the game quick unwrape the game and take out the metal . or just the cd and run out of the store lol

# figures — Guest 2007-07-25 12:43

i used to work at target. usually there are employees there 24/7, stocking at night. security has always been a joke though

# lol you people have no idea how to steal — AoxomamoxoA 2007-07-25 13:03

...or you could just buy the game, take it out to your car. Come back in with the receipt and grab the same game, take it up to the customer service desk and get a refund. Thats what a smart thief would do.

Anyways, these kids obviously didnt steal a ps3 game since there arent any. Wii, maybe. But those games are only $40 anyways. It was probably a 360 games, more than likely M rated. Theyre stupid for just taking one, they should have grabbed a copy of as many as they could get.

# ... — Masenko 2007-07-25 13:10

While ethnicity shouldn't matter in this case, you cannot clearly see the offender's color in the attached image. Stop being racist, you fiend.

C~

# He stole — Guest 2007-07-25 13:24

Pong For Atari 2600 , A great game for all ya

# ... — Guest 2007-07-25 13:35

This ain't your average corner store where you're probably use to shopping. I would expect the big name stores to actually scan the bar code to make sure the receipt and item matches before giving you a refund.

Then again I've never shopped at Target so I may be wrong.

# . — Guest 2007-07-25 13:38

What's "stfu"? Does that mean save up?

# games have something to do with it like it or not — Guest 2007-07-25 13:39

well it probably build some confidence in him to do it. after all, CJ always gets away with it, well most of the time hahahaha.

# My guess... — WarLord 2007-07-25 13:43

The game they stole was probably rated M. They asked their parents if they could get it, but they said no. Since they were too young to buy it themselves, they decided to just steal it. In any event, it's sad to see people so young get into crime.

# D'UH — Guest 2007-07-25 13:58

they stole..... Barbie's Horse Adventure for the ps1.

it's logical of course

# not worth stealing — Guest 2007-07-25 14:18

they still sell crap down there in Hicks-ville U.S.A

# not worth stealing — Guest 2007-07-25 14:20

they still sell crap down there in Hicks-ville U.S.A

# HOT!! — Guest 2007-07-25 14:29

Oh, man this turns me on so bad!!!

# That`s make no sense — Guest 2007-07-25 15:43

They did all that for one video game !!

I think that someone told them to do that

# video clip please — Guest 2007-07-25 15:49

i need to see a video clip of this

# no — Stealth! 2007-07-25 16:05

Idiot games doesn't always have something to do with it, ever watched Ocean's 11 or 12, yea enough said.

# What — Stealth! 2007-07-25 16:12

Can you stop posting, if your that turned on please make "love" or screw your xbox system

# what? — Guest 2007-07-25 16:13

You could probably find a video of it on the internet after you're done looking at g@y porn.

# cheat — Guest 2007-07-25 16:14

MR COMMON SENSE IS THAT JACK THOMPSON" WORKING FOR MICROSOFT" ***** ING WITH MADDEN SECRETLY AT E>A> .....30 frames per second

# please — Stealth! 2007-07-25 16:15

Stop posting BS, just hump your system and leave.

# but i like... — Guest 2007-07-25 16:36

to hump little boys and shove my 360 controller up my A.S.S!!!!

# wtf are you talking about? — Guest 2007-07-25 16:43

the store was OBVIOUSLY closed during the incident...

# (unregistered) — AoxomamoxoA 2007-07-25 17:08

Hmm, are you too dumb to realize that theres a huge (unregistered) by your name when you impersonate him? Youre only making yourself and the ps3 community look stupid (more than they already do of course).

# 123 — Guest 2007-07-25 17:11

Great idea to get the sledge from the hardware part of store and how do they get in the store then?

Also there 11 they cant eBay any stolen goods as they where not old enough and they cant pawn any consoles in as they all have serials on them, which im guessing the store already had and if not one 11 year old goes in and sells a new 360 console, bit obvious.

Stupid American kids

# LOLxINFINITY — Guest 2007-07-25 18:31

The game they stole was Super Monkey Ball 2 for the Game Cube

# i do not!!! — The Real Mister Common Sense 2007-07-25 19:19

Impostor!!!!!

# download ur games! — Guest 2007-07-25 19:38

*****in morons should have just gotten swap magic.

# Are you Wiitardid? — Guest 2007-07-25 19:56

Why would they steal one game to sell it on ebay, that wouldn't make any sense. Anyway if they were to sell it they could just do it on the street and get about 30 to 50 for it.

# hah — Guest 2007-07-25 20:14

Now they're gonna sue Rockstar (GTA) and say that children get influenced from their games.....HAH lol

# hell yes — Guest 2007-07-25 21:01

lol good for them, i know i wish i had snagged a few games in my younger years, hope they dont get caught:) i remember stealing music cds as a teen, never got caught!!!!!!!! hehehe

# stfu — Guest 2007-07-25 21:24

stfu + shut the f*ck up

# .. — Guest 2007-07-25 22:22

lol cool they got away. But why is this crap on Qj? I'm getting tired of this unimportant crap you guys are posting just because a game is involved. Next thing you know you guys'll be posting about a kids getting molested and justify it by saying the kids had came in contact with games some time in life...

# and? — Guest 2007-07-26 01:57

its there part in posting stuff about the games and consoles we play, whether it be the release of Halo 3 or it being some thief 11yr old ghetto kids stealing games.

# lol — Stealth! 2007-07-26 02:18

Wow interesting. I should have known you were a faerie MCS.

# Please — Stealth! 2007-07-26 02:22

Can you stop being an idiot, its people like you who get games banned.

# project h.a.m.m.e.r. — Guest 2007-07-26 02:44

OMG its a leaked inmage from project H.A.M.M.E.R.lol

# one guy could have stopped them easy, or died trying — Guest 2007-07-26 03:14

If I were one of the boys I would take a few ps3's and sold themon ebay then got a modchip or something to just download the games that way the parents won't find out and the would not have to pay a cent ormaybe just ten bucks for a disk.

# I HAVE A VERY LARGE ***** — Guest 2007-07-26 04:39

I HAVE A VERY LARGE *****, LETS ALL RIOT WITH SLEDGEHAMMERS BECAUSE I JUST READ THIS ARTICLE WOOOOOOOOOOOO

# RE: — Guest 2007-07-26 05:10

Lol so *****ing funny just 2 steal 1 video game instead just saving up whats next a spider-man toys or let me guess a candy bar

# LOL — Guest 2007-07-26 08:28

Hey, looks like Mister Common Sense got captured on camera! Now we all know who he really is!

# so what? — Guest 2007-07-26 08:36

oh no!!! do we have to fear that kids may start to break glass with hammers?

Americans and all people over the world. We have a terror alarm now! Stay at home and dont move. Dangerous kids are between us! Keep your eyes open.

What an unimportant *****!

# true — Guest 2007-07-26 08:44

i would have done the same.

But carrying around alot of games and 3 consoles would be a pain to carry but if you get away with it its wel worth it

# lol — Guest 2007-07-26 09:31

i got 20 that says they took a PS1 game that was overpriced... probably monopoly...

# ... — Guest 2007-07-26 10:12

those kids r so stupid they proboly stole a game like whiney the poo's rumbuly tumbuly adventure

# omg dummies — Guest 2007-07-26 11:27

Police say the boys didn't steal anything else, much to the puzzlement of customers and shop owners everywhere, as well as raising a lot of questions. How did the boys get their hand on a sledgehammer, for instance? And how did they get past the store's security?

you can just go to home depot and buy a sledge hammer no problem duh wats the big mystery

and he had a freaking hody on he could have just but it under his hoody and walked in the store

not that hard

# Both Communities Look Stupid.... — Folding Junkie! 2007-07-26 12:00

.... with all of the fanboys running around here on QJ.

Unfortunately both sides of the coin seem to have far more tools and fools than intelligent supporters!

# Stealth! — Folding Junkie! 2007-07-26 12:05

I only partially agree with you!

I wouldn't call him an idiot he is only pointing out what very likely could happen with people like Jack Thompson leading the crusade against video games and gamers.

Where I tend to agree with you is that we DON'T need to give people like J.T. any more ammo or ideas!

# sure — Guest 2007-07-26 12:35

but how did they get in if they didn't have the sledgehammer already? they must have had it before hand. anyways, i can't believe they only took one game. they're eleven! when i was eleven, i always thought about doing something like that (but never did) and grabbing every game i could fit in my backpack. some self control they've got there.

# Im the kid — Guest 2007-07-26 13:27

I hid in the store you idiots! and i did take a sledge hammer from there hardware! i won't tell the game i stole but ill tell you this much i took more then one game. They are lying so they don't look bad and im not 11 years old!

# lol — Guest 2007-07-26 23:55

it's easier to steal i think, need a decent computer anyways, not to mention internet, and decent connection speed like dsl.. bet they had neither.. anways the real concern here is making sure those kids DONT get caught! stealing isnt wrong... it's only wrong if you get caught :3

# double post — Guest 2007-07-26 23:57

liek you totally double posted bro.. total bummer dude!

# lol — Guest 2007-07-26 23:59

haha i wanan break down your fence to piss you off, then piss on it

# o.oa — Guest 2007-07-27 00:01

that comment may have offended me if i was black.. phew close call.. im hispanic! this means i dont speak english, i was snuck into america for manual labor work by a a-hole named jack or something now? lol

# lol — Guest 2007-07-27 00:04

hahaha no i think it was Mary Kate and Ashley's Crush Course for PS1!!! lol

# lol — Guest 2007-07-27 00:11

man ppl take posting on QJ too serious lol do somethin else, i like to play around n read funny ***** on comments, i hate all this debating crap.. it's pointless. why not debate some serious issues if everyone is gonna get their freakin panties in a wad? like how our own government used 9/11 to pass some bull***** bill.. by the way our own government setup 9/11... noticed how those buildings looked like a demolition? seriously read up on it.. and stop wasting your time with this useless crap.. all of you jesus... and done

# lol — Guest 2007-07-27 00:14

ohh who cares rockstar's games are total crap, if a game is gonna push the envelope it should make you raise some important questions about life.. not just do some retard scarface-wannabe bull*****

# lol — Guest 2007-07-27 00:16

i agree totally.. i wanna see news about upcoming games and stuff.. but on the other hand, these things are good for makin jokes ;p

# hold on — Guest 2007-07-27 01:48

those 2 are niglets.

# no — Guest 2007-07-27 07:53

Then you must suck as a theif.

Rule #1. Take everything unless it might get you caught

# they were not kids — Guest 2007-08-03 10:32

they were muslim midgets

# wow — Guest 2007-08-06 18:53

Maybe the kids got the sledgehammer from the gardening or home improvement section of the store.

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