EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time

aesoteric writes "An EMC test engineer has pleaded guilty to stealing almost $1 million worth of kit from his employer. He reportedly stole the unspecified goods from the storage giant's North Carolina factory using 'a small bag' to smuggle the kit out before selling it on the internet under a pseudonym."

The estate of Johnny Cash is suing him...

[EXMSFT]

for copyright infringement.

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[DWMorse]

A highly-developed and technological Knight Industries Two Thousand series motor vehicle.

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[3vi1]

Kit = pieces of equipment.

If he'd taken it all, it would have been kit and caboodle.

reminds me...

[neokushan]

...of a tale my dad used to tell me when I was young.

I don't know the full details, so it could be made up, the details could be wrong or it might have actually been like a TV show or something, but anyhoo.

A guy who worked in a factory would leave every day with a wheelbarrow full of rubbish. One of his bosses was sure he was stealing something, so every now and then he'd search the wheelbarrow and come up dry - rubbish, rubbish and more rubbish. The manager got so frustrated, he started searching every single day and still found nothing.
Eventually, the guy figured out what he was stealing - wheelbarrows.

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[hedwards]

Well, Johnny Cash stole an entire car one piece at a time over a couple decades, if his music is any indication.

Huh. Guess that explains . . .

[Hero Zzyzzx]

this EMC Celerra NS model 120-121-122-123-124-125-126-127-128-129-130 NAS I just bought off craigslist.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I'd sure hate to lose my equipment while getting my kit off.

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[rkww]

Here's a link to the same story in American [pcworld.com]

2 Mill

[dark grep]

$2M of EMC equipment - wow, that's like five hard drives!

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[LucidBeast]

Well, it's a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56 '57, '58' 59' kit It's a '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '67 '68, '69, '70 kit

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[garyebickford]

You're talking about my dog, you insensitive clod!!

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[davester666]

Of course, once the parts were reassembled, the result was an EMC product, which has no actual value.

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[Jeremy Erwin]

The Australians got it from a British site, which helpfully changed the Americanism equipment [boston.com] to something more British.