Two Japanese workers allegedly infiltrated a delivery company to steal copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom before launch.
As originally reported by Japanese publication Bunshun (and translated by Automaton Media), two Japanese youths reportedly started working at an Amazon subcontractor earlier this year. The pair started working at the delivery company a month before Tears of the Kingdom launched, as part of a plan to steal and play the game before launch on May 12.
The employees were then both reportedly fired from their jobs at the subcontractor, which is basically the least you'd expect from this case. They were also apparently made to reimburse the company for all the items they'd stolen while working there, which is the ultimate case of fucking about and finding out.
It's wild that one of the culprits literally just sat at home playing Tears of the Kingdom, and hoped their mother wouldn't snitch on them. They would've gotten away with it if it hadn't been for that pesky mother! Well, probably not, but we can imagine.
Apparently, this sort of thing happens a lot more than you'd think, in Japan at least. An unnamed source at the delivery subcontractor says this often happens with part-time staffers coming and going relatively quickly, which makes it really hard to track down who's stolen what. Damn, maybe this pair really would've gotten away with it if not for their mother.
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