Legal Niches

What Is Wrong with People Volume 36?

By pete_gallagher

The best way to get back at an ex-boyfriend? Kill his cat and open a copy of his sealed collectible videogame.

Following a break-up, 21-year old Tiffany Lyn Boyd of Big Pool, Maryland, stands accused of poisoning her ex's cat (it later died) and 'defacing her former boyfriend's collectible video game' according to a story on the Herald-Mail.

For non-geeks, the article explains how unsealing the collectible videogame is tantamount to 'defacing' it:

The game, which was sealed in plastic and unused, was devalued when the woman allegedly opened the plastic seal on the video game's container, according to court records.

The videogame in question was not identified.

Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 06, 2010 (boomark / email).