Man accused of Lego thefts

I saw this news report the other day and I have two burning questions ....

Man accused of Lego thefts

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Agents had to use a 20-foot truck to cart away the evidence from a suspect's house - mountains of Lego bricks.

William Swanberg, 40, of Reno, is accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of the colorful plastic building blocks.

Swanberg was indicted by a grand jury in Hillsboro, a Portland suburb, which charged him with stealing Lego sets from Target stores.

Target estimates Swanberg stole up to $200,000 worth of the brick sets pilfered from their stores in Oregon, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. The Legos were resold on the Internet, officials said.

Burning question number one: How big is a 20 foot truck? Big enough to move three bedrooms worth of stuff from my move back to Nashville! I've got three big tubs of Legos, so please define "mountains of Legos" for me...



Burning question number two: How much is $200,000 worth of Legos? The Star Wars Millennium Falcon Lego set (below) retails for $100. So $200,000 worth of Legos translates into 2000 boxes of said Lego item... (enough to fill a 20 foot truck?)

Back in the sixties when the sheriffs rounded up a local pot bust, a car trunk full of illegal weed boasted a haul worth a quarter million dollars on the street. Right.

I'm not defending a thief, but I think in the Lego bandit case, a twenty foot truck was the only truck available for rent at the time.