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Dumbass sends burned DVD BACK to Blockbuster...

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My mate at work today received a text message from his wife saying
"Call me urgently. I've done a bad thing"

Understandably my friend was worried, and phoned her. 5 minutes or so later he was off the phone ending himself laughing, as his wife had taken their DVDs back to Blockbuster, but had put the dodgy burned DVD in the case instead of the actual movie, which she found in the DVD player upon return. :lol :lol :lol

After his initial mirth my mate is now pretty worried as to what might happen when Blockbuster discover the pirate copy :lol

:lol A Darwin award candidate if ever I heard one :lol
 
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Azih

Member
She should get ot Blockbuster ASAP with the DVD and say something like 'hohoho I left my family... picture CD in there by mistake. .HOHOHO'.
 

Wellington

BAAAALLLINNN'
Azih said:
She should get ot Blockbuster ASAP with the DVD and say something like 'hohoho I left my family... picture CD in there by mistake. .HOHOHO'.

Yes. I don't know what action they could take, but it's a lot better to be safe than sorry in this case.
 

Outlaw

Banned
Nothing will happen..they'll just place the movie in the mix-match account and give you a call telling you to bring back the right movie. After, they'll laugh at you and put a warning on your account saying how dumb you are :D
 

Chopin Trusty Balls

First casualty in the war on idioticy.
gollumsluvslave said:
Maxwell House:-


As far as I gather, it's worse - a properly scanned and printed DVD label :lol :lol

Call da Police,seriously she should turn herself in before SWAT storms the house.(Like in that AD about House Searches)

Also tell him to hide all his burned stuff in case of a house search.
 

pnjtony

Member
I think you have to die to be eligible for a Darwin Award.

Natural selection and all. i'm sure you're friend will be just fine.
 

shuri

Banned
yeah giving back a burner dvd COMPLETE WITH LABEL is a bit more dangerous than just ar egular unlaballed dvd
 
gollumsluvslave said:
My mate at work today received a text message from his wife saying
"Call me urgently. I've done a bad thing"

Understandably my friend was worried, and phoned her. 5 minutes or so later he was off the phone ending himself laughing, as his wife had taken their DVDs back to Blockbuster, but had put the dodgy burned DVD in the case instead of the actual movie, which she found in the DVD player upon return. :lol :lol :lol

After his initial mirth my mate is now pretty worried as to what might happen when Blockbuster discover the pirate copy :lol

:lol A Darwin award candidate if ever I heard one :lol

He should go out, buy the movie, say he bought it after watching the rented copy then copied his own as a backup.
 

impirius

Member
pnjtony said:
I think you have to die to be eligible for a Darwin Award.

Natural selection and all. i'm sure you're friend will be just fine.
No, you just have to be unable to reproduce.

As a Blockbuster employee, I can tell you that our official guidelines for discovering burned DVDs are simple: NOTIFY THE OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY IMMEDIATELY
 

AlphaSnake

...and that, kids, was the first time I sucked a dick for crack
I doubt they will report the guy if he just runs in there and tells them what's the deal. No one will rat someone out to their face.
 

Hollywood

Banned
Play dumb. It was already like that when he got it. Simple enough. Any further questioning results in profanity and 'accuse me of this shit again I'm calling my fucking lawyer'. Problem solved.
 

goodcow

Member
impirius said:
No, you just have to be unable to reproduce.

As a Blockbuster employee, I can tell you that our official guidelines for discovering burned DVDs are simple: NOTIFY THE OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY IMMEDIATELY

You're not being serious, are you?
 

cvxfreak

Member
:lol:lol:lol

Person should Jjust say it was the copy in there and you thought it was a special Blockbuster copy or something.
 

aoi tsuki

Member
Warhammer 40k said:
I seriously doubt the people working at Blockbuster get paid enough to really give a shit.
Agreed. It would be different if it was some home porn or something. i'm sure there's a few people at BB who copy stuff themselves, and others who got the job with that in mind.
 

sonicfan

Venerable Member
The easy way is to say that is what was in the case when you rented it.

At the end of the day, they probably won't even notice.

Now I may be dating myself, but I remember renting a VHS tape that was clearly pirated copies. No stereo sound, crapy picture, but I blame the store I rented it from, they probably bought the bogus tape themselves. And I was pissed, I wrote on the label of the tape that it was a bad copy or something, I never heard back from them though.
 

xabre

Banned
Well...um...here is a similar (and true) story.

You see a few months ago there was two people, one was a deviously cunning and clever individual who was a member of several video rental distribution chains and would often hire some DVD movies, copy them for private use, put them in blank DVD cases with printed covers downloaded from the Internet and obviously return the rentals to the store unscathed. This underhanded scheme worked well, until one sorrowful day the other individual, a dark and pale creature from the land of total 'effin stupidity and utter cluelessness was given a special task to perform. Now for the sake of anonymity, let's call the clever person Bill, and the nitwit Anne.

Prior to this evil day, Bill had done what he had done many times previously, copied the rented DVD and printed out a cover, and then placed disc and cover print out in a blank DVD case. It was by no means a perfect copy of an original DVD movie case (in many respects a rather poor one), but it made Bill happy and along with the rest of his collection it looked rather respectable. Bill had placed the copied DVD cases on top of a storage cabinet in his room and the rented DVD's remained in a another room in their video store cases with the name of the rental chain plastered all over them. Before going to work the next day Bill requested of Anne a special task, Bill said "Anne, please return the rented movies to the video store" to which Anne obliged. The day, like all others was long and monotonous for Bill, his repetitive and ultimately meaningless job boring him throughout the day, and like all other days, Bill eagerly anticipated his arrival home.

When Bill did arrive home he went to Anne and asked about the movies, "We're they taken back to the video store" he said to which Anne said that they were. Bill was happy with this answer and went away to concern himself with other matters. After a while Bill entered the room where he had left the rented movies, and he saw a curious thing, DVD movies in DVD movies cases that had the rental distribution chain plastered all over them. Bill went back to Anne, "I thought you took the movies back to the video store" he said, to which Anne responded "I did", "But no you didn't, the rented movies are still here" said Bill to which Anne responded once more, "I took them back today". Confused, Bill went into his room, looked upon the cabinet which he left the copied movies and in the very place that they once were, they had now seemingly vanished. Now rather concerned, Bill asked Anne where the copied movies had gone from upon the cabinet, and Anne responded 'Those were the ones I took back the video store'.

After very nearly fainting and regaining his balance from total shock at the idiocy of it all; that the copied movies, all in their crappy $2 bargain shop DVD case glory, their shitty paper print out covers and the blank DVD-R disc with the name of the movie hastily written on it would be returned to the video store in lieu of the rented movies with the video store logo prostituted all over them; Bill let loose more explicatives in the space of a few minutes than the combined profanity of every single drunken Irish to ever enter a pub. Upon regathering his composure Bill decided not to say anything to the video store about the mysterious copied movies they would receive, to simply remain oblivious to the whole incident and the copies that would no doubt be tied to his account. Bill's reasoning was that regardless of the no doubt highly suspicious circumstances, there is was still nothing that could actually prove that Bill was the one who copied these movies, i.e. anyone could have copied those movies and gave them back to the video store. Within a few days Bill would return the rented movies to the video store and within a few months would be once again hiring movies from the same store and expanding his collection.

Moral is be like Bill, return the rented movie, say nothing of the incident and steer clear of the video store for a while.
 

Mr Gump

Banned
Uh, ive done this before but with the two towers. Left the original dvd at home and returned the burnt version. I got a phone call from a blockbuster employee later that day saying that i had left a personal dvd in the case and for me to bring in the real thing. The burnt copy was also labled: LOTR: The Two Towers also :lol

He was a nice guy.

P.S I own the retail extended edition of all 3 movies.
 

Do The Mario

Unconfirmed Member
xabre said:
Well...um...here is a similar (and true) story.

You see a few months ago there was two people, one was a deviously cunning and clever individual who was a member of several video rental distribution chains and would often hire some DVD movies, copy them for private use, put them in blank DVD cases with printed covers downloaded from the Internet and obviously return the rentals to the store unscathed. This underhanded scheme worked well, until one sorrowful day the other individual, a dark and pale creature from the land of total 'effin stupidity and utter cluelessness was given a special task to perform. Now for the sake of anonymity, let's call the clever person Bill, and the nitwit Anne.

Prior to this evil day, Bill had done what he had done many times previously, copied the rented DVD and printed out a cover, and then placed disc and cover print out in a blank DVD case. It was by no means a perfect copy of an original DVD movie case (in many respects a rather poor one), but it made Bill happy and along with the rest of his collection it looked rather respectable. Bill had placed the copied DVD cases on top of a storage cabinet in his room and the rented DVD's remained in a another room in their video store cases with the name of the rental chain plastered all over them. Before going to work the next day Bill requested of Anne a special task, Bill said "Anne, please return the rented movies to the video store" to which Anne obliged. The day, like all others was long and monotonous for Bill, his repetitive and ultimately meaningless job boring him throughout the day, and like all other days, Bill eagerly anticipated his arrival home.

When Bill did arrive home he went to Anne and asked about the movies, "We're they taken back to the video store" he said to which Anne said that they were. Bill was happy with this answer and went away to concern himself with other matters. After a while Bill entered the room where he had left the rented movies, and he saw a curious thing, DVD movies in DVD movies cases that had the rental distribution chain plastered all over them. Bill went back to Anne, "I thought you took the movies back to the video store" he said, to which Anne responded "I did", "But no you didn't, the rented movies are still here" said Bill to which Anne responded once more, "I took them back today". Confused, Bill went into his room, looked upon the cabinet which he left the copied movies and in the very place that they once were, they had now seemingly vanished. Now rather concerned, Bill asked Anne where the copied movies had gone from upon the cabinet, and Anne responded 'Those were the ones I took back the video store'.

After very nearly fainting and regaining his balance from total shock at the idiocy of it all; that the copied movies, all in their crappy $2 bargain shop DVD case glory, their shitty paper print out covers and the blank DVD-R disc with the name of the movie hastily written on it would be returned to the video store in lieu of the rented movies with the video store logo prostituted all over them; Bill let loose more explicatives in the space of a few minutes than the combined profanity of every single drunken Irish to ever enter a pub. Upon regathering his composure Bill decided not to say anything to the video store about the mysterious copied movies they would receive, to simply remain oblivious to the whole incident and the copies that would no doubt be tied to his account. Bill's reasoning was that regardless of the no doubt highly suspicious circumstances, there is was still nothing that could actually prove that Bill was the one who copied these movies, i.e. anyone could have copied those movies and gave them back to the video store. Within a few days Bill would return the rented movies to the video store and within a few months would be once again hiring movies from the same store and expanding his collection.

Moral is be like Bill, return the rented movie, say nothing of the incident and steer clear of the video store for a while.


:lol

Thats gold
 
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