Amazon Always Offers Such Delightful Surprises

August 14, 2012

[b] Man orders flat screen on Amazon, gets assault rifle[/b]

Customer who ordered a fine high-definition TV on Amazon opens the box to discover that the third-party merchant has sent him a highly defined murder weapon.
Amazon always offers such delightful surprises.

Often a box is lying on my doorstep and my heart leaps because someone has sent me a gift. Only then do I realize that, yet again, I did some late-night online shopping after a small nightcap.
One can imagine, though, that Seth Horvitz of Washington, D.C. must have felt giddy when the flat-screen TV he had bought through a third-party vendor on Amazon arrived at his apartment.
As MyFoxDC dispatches it, Horvitz eagerly opened the box, only to find a Sig Sauer SIG716.
This happens to be, as the Sig Sauer Web site declaims: "The rifle of choice when you require the power of a larger caliber carbine."
I cannot imagine who might be doing the choosing when ordering one of these things. I can only hope it would be someone with the appropriate qualifications and mental equilibrium.
Oddly, Horvitz didn't mention that he thought it strange that the box wasn't quite TV-shaped.
Still, when he saw what was inside, he immediately called the police -- who were, as Horvitz told MyFoxDC, "a little confused at first, they've never seen anything quite like it."

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