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By Jessica Roy 5/25/12 12:19pm

Mr. Langenbach's LEGO lair. (Mountain View Police/Wired)

LEGO Stealing Nerd Assembled Mini Legoland Inside His Mansion

Remember Thomas Langenbach, the SAP executive who used his tech chops to steal and resell thousands of dollars worth of LEGOs? Turns out he was–unsurprisingly–a bit of a LEGO hoarder, even going so far as to build what “looked like a mini Legoland,” Cindy Hendrickson, Supervising Deputy District Attorney with the Santa Clara County D.A.’s office, told Wired. Read More

By Jessica Roy 5/21/12 5:32pm

Lego my LEGOs

The "Computer Programmer" lego minifigure. (lego.com)

Professional Nerd Uses Scam to Buy More LEGOs

It’s not always sunny in Legoland, guys. NBC Bay Area reports that Thomas Langenbach, a VP at ERP software company SAP Labs in Palo Alto, has been arrested for stealing LEGOs. Mr. Langenbach, who likes to go by “Lord LEGOs” (okay, not really), used his computer expertise to create new bar codes, which he stuck overtop of regular Target bar codes in order to purchase LEGOs at reduced prices. Read More

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LEGO Stealing Nerd Assembled Mini Legoland Inside His Mansion

Professional Nerd Uses Scam to Buy More LEGOs

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