Call Of Duty Game Truck Raided With Tear Gas In Armed Robbery

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the most anticipated game of this year. The hype is so large, some in France decided to pull a mission of their own. Over the last weekend leading up to the launch of the game, a truck carrying approximately 6,000 copies of the Activision game, was raided by assailants with tear gas and knives. The report detailed how two men crashed their car into a van carrying unspecified video game cargo before spraying its occupants with tear gas and stealing both the van and contents. The contents of the van was later confirmed to be copies of Modern Warfare 3 and the theft is believed to be worth around €400,000 equaling $600,000 American dollars.

A later update to the story suggested that a second robbery took place under similar circumstances, with a car used to block the road before three men commandeered another delivery van and stole a further cache of MW3 worth similar value to the first.

Elsewhere, demand for MW3 has been predictably high, with one eBay copy of the game allegedly selling for over $1,700.