Page Not Found (404) Sorry, what you're looking for can't be found! The page might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavaible. Or it probably just doesn't exist. Lego, light of my life, treasure of my toys. My sin, my soul. For Humbert Humbert, it was Lolita. For Thomas Langenbach, it is — allegedly — Legos. The Silicon Valley executive was arrested this month on suspicion of stealing thousands of dollars worth of the little colored bricks from Target stores in the Bay Area. How did he go about it? By allegedly putting fake bar codes on expensive sets to secure a steep discount at the register — for example, paying $49.99 for a Star Wars Millennium Falcon Lego set that Target normally sells for $139.99, reports the Los Angeles Times. Then, he allegedly sold them online at a higher price. Since last April, he’s accused of raking in an estimated $30,000, having sold 2,100 Lego items on eBay, reports NBC Bay Area. “This is the first time we’ve ever had a case like this,” a local police spokeswoman said.
The game was up when Target caught him in action on surveillance video on May 8th. (MORE: Top 10 Dubious Toys) The Lego racket was not purely mercenary. In fact, it appears to be a labor of love: police found the exec’s $2 million home near San Francisco packed with Lego structures he had built himself. There’s no indication he needed the money, either — his LinkedIn page lists him as a vice president at German software company SAP, where he has worked since 1988. The Lego enthusiast’s hearing is scheduled for June 20. The maximum sentence for such a crime is five years in Lego Kingdoms Prison Tower jail. In other Lego news, this week the world’s tallest LEGO tower was unveiled in South Korea. The near-105-foot-tall Legolisk was built by South Korean children to mark the 80th birthday of the Danish toy. MORE: All-TIME 100 Greatest Toys These are the instructions for building the LEGO Castle Target practice that was released in 2010. Download These Instructions as PDF:
BI 2001/ 2 - 30062 V.29 [0.24 Mb] BI 2001/ 2 - 30062 V.39 [0.25 Mb] View which pieces you need to build this set ) which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this siteYOU ARE HERE: LAT HomeCollectionsTarget Stores Silicon Valley executive Thomas Langenbach, 47, was charged this week with four counts of second degree burglary after he allegedly put fake bar codes on Lego sets in Target stores so that they rung up at a deeply discounted price at the register.For example, on April 20 he allegedly paid $49.99 for a Millennium Falcon Lego set that retails for $139.99 and he bought an X-wing Starfighter Lego set for $19.99 that retails at Target for $59.99, police said.Langenbach allegedly sold the Lego sets for profit on Ebay, using the handle "Toms Brickyard."Police spokeswoman Liz Wylie toldthe Mercury News that Langenbach sold 2,100 items in the last year on EBay and made $30,000.But this month, the Lego house that Langenbach had painstakingly constructed brick by brick came tumbling down.
On May 8, Target officials caught him on video replacing bar codes on Lego sets, police said, and he was arrested. He was released on $10,000 bail.He was arraigned Tuesday morning, and the case is set for a hearing June 20.Supervising Deputy District Atty. Cindy Hendrickson said Langenbach faces a maximum sentence of five years in state prison.In an interview with The Times, Hendrickson said Langenbach put a lot of effort into shaving money off his Lego purchases.He allegedly kept plastic baggies containing the fake bar codes in his car, carefully organized with the name of the item on the bag. Some of the bar codes provided him a discount of just $20, others gave him a $100 discount, Hendrickson said.Langenbach never bought a lot of items at one time, she said, and he went to several Target stores to run his alleged scam. At the Target store in Mountain View, where he was caught, for example, he put bar codes on three different Lego boxes, but only brought one of them to the register, she said."
He would have to come back if he was planning on purchasing those other items," Hendrickson said.Langenbach kept his Legos at home, where he had as many as 46 of the same item, she said, and he also had a staging area to photograph the Legos so he could post pictures on EBay."It was quite an enterprise," Hendrickson said.But what makes the case especially strange is that Langenbach didn't appear to have any trouble making money the traditional way. According to his LinkedIn page, he is a vice president at Palo Alto's SAP Labs Integration and Certification Center, and has been with the company since 1988.The Mercury News reported that he lives in a $2-million home in San Carlos, Calif., about 30 minutes south of San Francisco.ALSO:Apple once again the world's most valuable brandAmerican Express launches FarmVille reward cardMapMyFitness wants you to try to be king of the hill Seizure Led to FloJo's DeathHis 104 scores make his caseRestaurant review: South Beverly GrillBrutal Murder by Teen-Age Girls Adds to Britons' ShockComaneci Confirms Suicide Attempt, Magazine Says
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