Say you’re a 19-year-old college freshman, short on cash but desperate to get your hands on an iPod. What would you do: Get a campus job? Beg your parents for a loan?
Jonathan Baldino, a student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, found an unconventional (and unscrupulous) solution to the problem. With a computer program called "Barcode Magic," Mr. Baldino created a fake bar-code sticker for a pair of headphones that cost $4.99, marched into a Target store, slapped the sticker on a $150 iPod, and checked out.
Unsurprisingly, the store’s security officers thought it fishy that an iPod would sell for less than half the price of a CD. Mr. Baldino now faces a felony charge of forgery along with two misdemeanor counts of theft. (TheDenverChannel.com)
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