Ah, power. You give a person too much and they will abuse it. Such is the case with Thomas Langenbach, a 47-year-old VP at Palo Alto-based software company SAP Labs, who has been arrested for the nerdiest crime in recent memory. His abuse of power: computer skill-based.
It is reported that Langenbach had been using his computer savvy to reproduce bar code stickers, the kind Target uses to price their items, which he placed over the original bar codes so he could purchase LEGOs at a lower cost.
The multimillionaire software exec sold the LEGO sets on eBay, under the username TomsBrickYard. (For whatever it’s worth, he is a top-rated seller with excellent feedback.) His seller page shows 1,475 completed sales in all, with the most recent feedback left today and the earliest dating back to May 1, 2011.
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http://gizmodo.com/5912141/multimillionaire-software-exec-arrested-in-lego+thieving-bar+code-scam
