Dude, how does this happen?
On June 8, 2025, at 8:10 a.m., patrol deputies were dispatched to the Love's Truck Stop at 1191 S. 1" St. in he Town of Bennett, after a high-dollar cargo heist took place. A semi-truck driver reported that he had just discovered his trailer had been broken into during a pre-trip inspection, and several pallets of the newly released Nintendo Switch 2 game consoles were stolen - 2,810 of them to be exact. Each Nintendo console is valued at $499. The total loss of the stolen goods is estimated at more than $1.4 million.
The driver had been on his way to a GameStop store in Grapevine, Texas. He had picked up the shipment from Nintendo in Redmond, Washington, and claims he knew nothing about what was in the trailer, "only that it was games or toys."
Which begs the question: How did someone else know to target that specific trailer if the driver didn't even know what was inside?
Nobody knows when exactly the heist took place, but the thieves grabbed multiple pallets of the handheld gaming consoles, which couldn't have been easy.
Fortunately for Nintendo, each Switch has a serial number which can be tracked. In order to play games on the device, you usually have to enter the serial number at login. Nintendo can either track down your device or "brick" it, which makes it nonfunctional.
The perps could try to jailbreak each of those devices, but that's going to take a lot of work for nearly 3,000 consoles!
Still, people are low-key trying to buy stolen merch in the comments...
We'll let you know if the thieves get caught!
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