Why Are Shoplifters Stealing Boxes of Legos?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ต.ค. 2024
- A Lego crime spree is sweeping the country. Cops say more than 2,800 stolen boxes of Lego sets were discovered in a California house. A mountain of stolen Legos worth $200,000 was discovered by cops in Oregon following a sting operation. Some of those elaborate sets resell for thousands of dollars. Doug Davis, owner of It’s A Block Party, says the problem has gotten so bad his staff now carry guns to protect their Legos. Inside Edition’s Lisa Guerrero has more.
As long as Lego prices keeps going up its not gonna stop.
*keep
Prices aren't really going up. It's a matter of number of sets made for any particular set Lego puts out. The less made, the more valuable it becomes once they no longer put it out there.
Prices aren't the problem,
if that's what your implying.
Lol
Judge:Life in prison or step on legos barefoot?
Them: Please give me life!
Life of stepping on Lego? Sure!
Lame ahh comment
@@vincrrtDid you step on a lego or something? 🥺🥺🥺
@@vincrrtlame ahh roast
For at least a year and you only get bathroom break on a Lego toilet.
LEGOS? Sigh. This is why we can never have nice things anymore.
Christmas is coming. They will be easy to sell on.
Maybe not:(
People need to stop buying stolen one's
My sons loved Lego. They had so many sets they kept them and passed them down. Thank goodness because I would go broke making sure my grandbabies had lots of great building sets…
If your life is so bad you have to steal Legos,reevaluate your life
@@calebhernandez187 even adults acting more like children around children’s toys
Everyone needs to reevaluate their vo te in 2020.
@@Steve-fx2fbwhy the country would be even more in debt under the orange man.
@@noahw5887 Do you accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior?
@@Steve-fx2fb Trump does not.
$100’s of dollars a box is why no one with kids can afford them
Lego is not the problem as a parent of two it is the Duplo. Duplo is absolute theft. 😡 There is no way it's reasonable for a child level designed box of 20 pieces be priced at $20. 😱 Half of those blocks sometimes seem to be specifically shaped for that set. I love Lego at the end of the day though.
A sting operation for stolen Legos.....I'm trying to process this
Then again Aussie cops did that for unreleased Bluey tokens
Legos = $$$ so sting operation for $$$
How / when did my lifelong hobby of building and collecting Lego become so damn popular?
Little kids grew up and now have money to spend om themselves instead of kids or for retirement
Quarantine….the free stimulus’ that gave millions of immature adults free money and allowed them to start mass
When people started realizing the money that’s in the hobby
When Lego started marketing towards adults.
I can’t imagine going to jail over legos 😂😂😂
exactly, they won't
Don’t these thieves have anything better to do?
theyre making money , wdym ?
Some people they never learned.
This question should be a no-brainer for anyone who has bought Lego, or even just seen the Lego price tags…
Have you ever bought a lego before? Try buying one, then you wouldn't ask that question.
for real i bought a set just today thinking it was gonna be $25 it was $40. definitely over priced for a set with only 300 pieces
im just imaging a thief stealing legos just crashing ships together in the middle of a store like a 3 year old
The last cop look like John Cena and Jim Carrey mixed together😂
2:49
10k?? Let me get some, 😂.
Crazy enough most of the value is from one mini-figure without it the set can be build with normal parts
You have to happen to pick the right sets that will appreciate and then hang onto them safely for 20+ years and not look at the box, let alone touch it, for fear of causing the box to get marred.
"A man is being robbed in LEGO City!"
Quick build the lego police car
“HEY!!!”
"A LEGO is being robbed in Man City!"
@@obsoletepoc7050 quick call the cops
Gives new meaning to the phrase Let go of my Legos
That Never was the phrase. The phrase was "Leggo of my EGGO."
As in Eggo Waffles jackass. 🙄🤦🏾♂️
@wadewilson8011 calm down Mr. Pool
What happened to those heavy metal screens you can slide down at closing. I would think that'd be the first investment a business would buy in Crimeafornia.
Stay armed and dont let thieves in
Why do they blur the faces of the criminals?
Legal reasons
I'm not even going to say what I thinking 😂😂
You don't even have to. We already know it.
lets go get us some legos :))
Hockey people
What's the point in putting an age restriction in the Lego toys IF THEY'RE LITERALLY A COLLECTOR'S PIECE?!
I’ve worked in a store that sells lego for almost 5 years now, and it just doesn’t stop. I’m lucky if they end up being pushovers when I confront and they leave without issue, but some get violent and they threaten to hurt me. Just go get a job you lowlife.
Criminals moving up from cocaine bricks to Lego bricks, more profitable
No fentanyl, and no one ODs on Legos. It’s much more profitable to sell to the living.
This video revitalized my dreams of as soon as I get to a comfortable lifestyle I'd get back designing stuff with legos as an adult
Guarding my Ninjago sets with my life.
Stealing from kids? Really?
Give me your Legos, and nobody gets hurt. 😮😮😮
Keeping stereotypes alive with this one
I couldn't see the tape clearly, hockey ppl or basketball ppl? I seriously don't know which stereotype would fit LEGO theft 😂
The real thief is lego for selling mini plastic blocks for hundreds of dollars😅
It's molded plastic in a box...Geez
It’s a sophisticated interlocking brick system
They're not just molded plastic pieces. They're pieces for build marvelous and sophisticated things, even interactive robots (LEGO MINDSTORM).
Molded to incredibly tight tolerances out of a high quality abs plastic blend.
My brother has kept all his Legos from his childhood.
Wow
Have you seen the prices of large Lego sets? It's in the hundreds !
No cop in sight to shout: "Let go of the lego!"
😆 " Lego of my Eggo" (Legos) 😆 🤣
Maybe they should have known getting a job is better than stealing from other people. All they have to do is work hard, save their money, and buy themselves a Lego set. It's not that hard to do.
You do realise that sometimes EVEN IF THEY ACTUALLY TRIED TO MAKE THE EFFORT, they couldn't make the job.
Anyone with a brain knows why this is happening:
1. They're expensive
2. It's California
If its worth money they will steal it 😂🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Exactly. Even public park benches have to be bolted down because of people who could use a trailer to take them away.
I mean I can't say I'm angry with people stealing overpriced merchandise and reselling it for a more reasonable rate, but stealing someone's personal build or sets is so cruel. As a builder it would suck so bad to have your hard work stolen.
Because there ridiculously expensive the home alone house is 300 dollars retail…it’s insane
So if a stranger’s actual house is $900,000, I’m justified to squat in it because it’s so expensive?
Yeah, but the Home Alone house is also 3955 pieces. If you could reproduce the same number of quality plastic pieces, box and ship them for only 8 cents a block then go ahead. You figure it should only cost Lego a penny to make each block?
Holy Legos.
I can't feel bad when they're charging these stupid prices for some legos
Why, because there is no one stopping them
As long as it's not LEGO and just legos it won't affect most of us
Haha, those silly yanks.
They worth more than drugs
It's a good time to post this but I'm learning the latency of inside holding onto their stuff for a different time. Lego has always been expensive. It reached the stealing point years ago. Now it'd just getting controversial so post about the stealing years now haha
That recently happened in New Zealand too from one of the toy stores. They took $2000 worth of Lego.
It's going to take prosecutors a while to build a case against the thief's.
Because they go up in value
Saw Doug in a TH-cam video about his Geonosian Droid Factory build and can’t believe I’m seeing him here. Hope these shenanigans come to a stop.
I don’t blame them for stealing I mean I wouldn’t wanna pay over 100 dollars for a Lego set 💀 😅
For real
That doesn’t make stealing OK.
@moonshoes11 that's why pirates exist
@@robotgaming706 lol
@@robotgaming706 Arrrrrr.
They’d steal anything if it isn’t nailed down 😂
Fully validated, I only buy bootleg legos. 😂
Bet some of them wanted that LEGO Titanic set. Also, if LEGO Dimensions, the toys to life game, was still around, those would probably be stolen too, because unlike traditional LEGO games, where stud currency is used, Toys to life obviously uses real money.
From jewellers to banks now LEGO toy stores.....
I knew they were worth a lot. I want some lego star for wars myself but they could be $130+ for a box
Shoplifter ? That’s a burglary
I had no idea that legos could be worth that much money. That just blows my mind.
Soon people will be stealing limited edition cereal next.
My local police department on inside edition 😮
Everybody wants quick cash.
I just ordered a bunch of stuff from scentsy and filled the big empty box with trash and old food and put it on my doorstep. Someone took it, lmao. Enjoy it you thieves. 🥰
Imagine risking your life to steal some Legos.
Im not surprised those they steal in boxes will be worth 4 times the price in a few years and they can sell on eBay for a good amount so they break in at night how come no security bars on windows and doors?
Seeing those LEGO sets on the driveway in the sun was painful to watch.
I remember buying Legos for my son back in the 90s. Whoever thought they were this big they were always a problem because I was always stepping on them. 😲😕. If I had known they were going to be this big I would have made sure for him to pick him up instead of me throwing them in the trash. 🤣
Lego is new gold
Went from stealing iPhones to legos now😂🤦♂️
That is so stupid for people to do this
Officer dogood looked strong and weak at the same time.......lol
Thief take anything they can resale . Not just lego
I bet he's bricking it now.😂
Nobody can resist their inner child.
Its good to see Lisa on inside edition :)
like art a lot of collectors know it’s stolen and still buy it maybe raiding top collectors is an idea no excuse for this
Obviously they're trying to build an empire.
steal a $100 jacket get $20 for it... Steal a $100 lego set get $60...
Thank you Lego for raising the prices.
I want to buy whatever Lego set that captures my eye from the Lego mountain
Inflation is ruining everything
Thanks to trump.
@@kayvillarosa7683 Yeah makes sense because of covid, but what doesn't is not investing on reducing inflation in America as a priority.
No! Thanks to Biden. Who told you that Trump was responsible for inflation?
@@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307 Inflation is a global issue, no one politician caused it or can solve it completely by themselves.
I mean I kinda get it Lego is just too expensive but also stealing is never ok and I can't imagine going to jail over toys
duh! cause their crazy expensive
In the capital city of my country, muggers will steal yugioh binders because they figure out that a single binder can have around 200-500 dollars worth of product inside.
If its worth money, they will steal it lol
One of these lego thieves could've been me from when I was between the ages of eight to seventeen LOL 😅
As I was absolutely crazy about Legos between those ages
Why’d he tell them he was calling the police -.-
Pretty sad if ur stealing legos
It's California
@@josephtafur ik that smart ass
because legos help with logic building skills.
This reminds me of The Fast and the Furious when they stole DVD players
Short answer: mb they like legos
Next target, toilet paper companies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Useless not worth buying or having
from expense jewel, money and now lego
I want to say "who cares", but this is just crazy.
I like how the lego graphic had a dirty fingerprint on it.
Lego should make semi trucks
It's not even American I never would have thought American's would be so into Lego
thats how you get when they primarily sell it for the adults to play rather than kids
and those kids can grow up and get jobs and afford Lego just like earlier generations...
Lego used to be for the kids, now it's for the dads and criminals 😅
I love you lisa guerrero deal with it.