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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)- Employees at a Best Buy in Aurora said a man threatened to blow up the store after he learned a video game he had pre-ordered was not in stock.

The man walked into the Best Buy just after midnight in the 3500 block of N. Salida Court near Interstate 70 and Tower Road.

“The last store I called was the Best Buy by my house and they said okay, we have three copies, two are on reserve and one is here available,” said Lomon Sar. “She charged the card, it was $108… She put my name on the box.”

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The Best Buy near I-70 and Tower Road in Aurora. (credit: CBS)

Police said Sar, 31, went to pick up a hardened copy of the “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ he said he pre-ordered and paid for earlier in the day. When he arrived, it wasn’t there and he became irate and angry at the customer service desk.

“He says what’s your name and starts typing in my name and he couldn’t find anything. The manager deleted me off their system! Like, took me out of the system! Took all my information out of the system everything,” said Sar.

“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ was released at midnight Tuesday.

Police said he asked employees when they were leaving the store and said that he intended to shoot them in the parking lot as they were leaving work. He also allegedly made another statement that involved blowing up the store.

“I put my hand up to my head and said look I’m so pissed right now I could blow this place up right now. That’s how mad I am!,” said Sar.

Lomon Sar talked to CBS4 about the incident. Watch his entire interview with CBS4′s Evrod Cassimy below:

Sar was issued a summons for misdemeanor disorderly conduct and trespassing.

“Investigating officers issued a criminal summons to a man who threatened to carry out his own version of modern warfare at the electronics store. Fortunately, this situation did not end in violence,” said Aurora Police Detective Bob Friel.

“I didn’t know words can get you in that much trouble but apparently they can,” said Sar.

Sar said Best Buy did refund $108 he paid for the game.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a first-person shooter video game. It is the eighth installment of the Call of Duty series and the third installment of the Modern Warfare series. The game is rated M for mature due to blood and gore, drug references, intense violence and strong language.

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  • Buck Williams

    It’s Bush’s fault they ran out of the game…

  • Timothy Fisher

    There’s nothing wrong with games, but I think that guy needs to stick to patty cake & hopscotch for a while!

  • dasss

    He probably wanted a Tele-tubbies game or something like that

  • Col Sanders

    Waiting for BF3 fanboys to comment…

  • Larz Blackman

    Stop! It’s neither funny, witty, nor poignant.

  • rob

    They ran out of the game. What are you going to do? Hehehe.

  • Avoicenmany

    Mmmm Sounds like someones parents would not foot the bill for this one to be @ #Occupy

  • Mac

    BF3 fans are more patient! Will that do?

  • mike

    I understand how he is mad when I am waiting for a game and it doesn’t come in I could just snap someones neck.

  • Freth

    As one who has been stiffed all too many times going through the Wendy’s drive-thru, I can understand being angry if you pre-ordered a game months in advance and find out it isn’t waiting for you on the release date like it’s supposed to be. It would anger me to no end that someone dropped the ball. Customer service seems to be lacking nowadays because people are in such a hurry they make mistakes. I don’t think it’s right the way he reacted, but I would definitely have some choice words for the store employees.

  • Armoney Washington

    Some one does not know the rules of good citizenship in the USA

  • i eat green beans

    it’s bush’s fault the joke failed…

  • SHOCKING ADMISSION FROM OCCUPY 1600
  • Llywellyn

    umm he preordered it earlier in the day.

    “Police said Lomorin Sar went to pick up the “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3″ he said he pre-ordered earlier in the day.”

  • JonDoh

    See what happens when you don’t let a man vent his aggressions in a virtual world? he takes it out on the real one! :) I want to know his Xbox gemertag so that I can shred his ass in the game!

  • wayne

    I GOT MINE…:)

  • jason

    The reason he was so upset was that he had been promising everybody/others to share his video game with his fellow Occupy Wall Street protesters.

  • jason

    I want to know how long it’s been since you read a book? or went on a date?

  • God bless this land of ours

    it was his own fault the game wasn’t there. you don’t pre-order a game the day it comes out. you do it weeks or months in advance, that way the store can order it, it can be delivered, and be there for you later. what happened to common sense in this country, we’re all becoming spoiled brats that live off of our grandparents sweat sixty years ago.

  • jason

    The only thing you can snap is your wanker after staying up all night playing “I wish I knew how to be a man 3.”

  • Durka Durka

    Another reason why BF3 is better, the gamers themselves!

  • asdf

    lol oh hell i thought that was funny.

  • Petra

    ROFL

  • jason

    I’m sure your parents are proud of you. Is that anything like “my baby’s mama?” How old are you? 5?

  • Ezra Gonzalez

    Why, do you want to ask him out?

  • Neuromancer

    I don’t agree with this nutcase but the pig-ignorant arrogance of the dweebs that work at Best Buy often leaves me thinking that some day someone is actually going to blow one of those places up.

    As a consequence I only shop there when I have to.

  • Sfrer

    Awww, what’s the matter, did you get molested as a child by someone who liked video games?

  • babydriver

    I thought what Buck said was funny. You DO understand sacasm don’t you?

    Our world is totally out of control. Jesus will return soon. I find sarcasm a great way to maintain sanity while I wait for my Savior.

  • realist

    Thankfully your parents are footing the bill for you to sit around in the basement, clicking on Drudge links all day.
    Time to put on some new underwear and stow away the conspiracy theory books buddy!

  • the swami

    Wouldn’t he need to earn points by conquering level three, before he could acquire a bomb to use the store?

  • Dirty Skier

    Thats just cuz its Aurora, this hell hole has totally forgotten customer service. The McDonald’s off Miss & Chambers had one of two drive through screens down and was directing people that went to the broken one that drive through was “out of order” and they needed to come inside. This is why people are in the drive and using the other screen. How about putting out cones you stupid N*****s

  • expertainer

    I remember some teen cutting up his mother because she turned off his video game.

  • David Muth

    I was in that store early yesterday to buy Rocksmith.They had a table stacked with copies of MW3. Early bird gets the worm I guess.

  • Avoicenmany

    For one I OWN my home, my father has passed on, and my mother lives about 20 miles from my HOUSE. Seems I must have hit to close to home for you as you seem to know where YOU #Occupy losers live. Now I suggest you put down the cheese wiz, get your meat loaf from mom, and change your soiled diaper.

  • imsancho

    It is bush’s fault we keep telling this joke

  • imsancho

    Here you go, Battlefield is a way better game in all respects

  • Tony Blackman

    It is also Bush’s fault that parents name their children, “Larz”.

  • realist is a dreamer of Lenin

    I find it hilarious that leftist toons get so irate that people arrive at other sites via an aggregate server.

    Why are you so familiar with a complete stranger’s underpants anyway? That’s more creepy that clicking a link.

  • Mikeghey

    zzzzz…

    It’s always the dummies that play Hello Kitty Island Adventure that leave “snap the neck” comments.

  • JayDummy

    Lol! Ezra for the win.

    I know a guy named Jason; he’s an idiot. Looks like a pattern is forming.

  • JB NYC

    Whoa! What a burn!

  • JayBones

    Jason was never allowed to play video games; his dad used to dress up as Coach Paterno every Halloween if you know what I am saying…

  • Mod

    I laughed.

  • http://bighairswoosh.wordpress.com bighairswoosh

    According to the ACLU, the upset customer has a right to threaten death… as long as that violence directed toward Christians and Jews. Was this a Muslim patron visiting Best Buy?

  • jd

    I love these fake Onion articles.

  • god

    Idiot.

  • John Moser

    Geez. It’s not like it’s Skyrim.

  • John Moser

    Projection is where you are a Viking. Everything else…not so much.

  • Fanny Forbes Franklen

    Games are for children. Grown men playing a video game is degenerate.

    http://911essentials.com

  • Poe Dee

    Hummm. Some comments should be kept to oneself?!

  • tHE ARBITER

    Mine cost only 59.99! So he was getting jerked around BIGTIME. The clerk probably took it home. BUT STILL that’s no cause for threats of violence!

  • Chip A.

    He was robbedThey didn’t run out. He paid for a copy they already had, his name was on the box.

    Lomon Sar was robbed. Someone came after Sar that day and before he could pick up his copy and said, “Hey, I’ll give you $200 for one of he reserved copies of the game,” and the clerk said, “No way!” The the latecomer said, “I’ll give you $250 for one of the reserved copies,” and the clerk said, “No.” So the guy goes, “FINE! I’ll give you $500 for one of the reserve copies,” and the clerk goes, “Sold, ” and wiped out all traces of Sar’s transaction.

  • Ezra Gonzalez

    You may be right. Would you be willing to run across a field so I can take potshots at you?

  • JeddMcHead

    I wonder what Sar’s girlfriend had to say about this. What? He doesn’t have a girlfriend? Huh.

  • Hof

    No, you’re just an a**hole.

  • jaline

    This guy is 31 years old and worried about a stupid VIDEO GAME?????? GROW UP, SIR…GROW UP!!!!!!!!!!!

  • FedUp Florida

    So did I, I downloaded it from Pirate Bay and installed it on my cracked game system. You people still pay for these things? LMAO! Fools!

  • Jason

    This does not surprise me for one second. Best Buy is the very worst place to shop in the entire country. They simply don’t care about customers. The problem is that they have managed to drive compeitors out. Companies like CompUSA, Circuit City, and Ultimate Electronics are gone now. I never, ever go into Best Buy any more, the experience is too hard on my blood pressure.

  • Jack

    LIke you should Like learn to talk like you know

  • Finbar

    Imagine what he’ll do when they botch his liver transplant.

  • Jan

    Coming from a mental deficient as you that’s pretty funny. You must be one of those degenerate adults that plays video games.

  • Mr. Beets

    If BF3 was sooo great then why has it never sold out? you can still find copies at the store that were part of the release date shipment. where as MW3 is already running out.

  • fatalwishes

    What an idiot.

    You have to have a steam account to play it right? So just buy it on steam and download it and get your money back from best buy.

  • Tha Booze

    Whats wrong bottle gone empty again?

  • Hof

    Jan, it’s called entertainment. I can understand why you wouldn’t understand that. It doesn’t rank up there with shopping and estrogen replacement therapy. Hubby go on business trips a lot? I don’t blame him.

  • Hof

    This is what happens when you don’t FIFA 12.

  • John
  • Hof

    No worries – she has a sweetheart deal with Mr. Godsey on Walton’s Mountain.

  • Not Jason

    look at all your comments on this thread big boy, you just a troll Jason? Your parents proud of you?

  • dfwfire

    Buck, I thought it was extremely funny, witty, and poignant. It was everything I look for in an internet news comment. Larz, make a stiff drink and pop one of your happy pills. …

  • TruthHurts

    Ni&&er should have been charged with felony wanton endangerment and sent with all of his people to prison, where they all belong and should stay until the die at an early age.
    But no, double standards once again for ni&&ers. Just because they are mentally deficient, they get a pass again.
    America needs to wake up, and put their foot down when it comes to uncivil, criminal ni&&ers such as this.
    You can hate what I say, but it is the cold hard truth, whether you like it or not.

  • Tom Genin

    Well it is an awesome game. lol

    Plus, there was a heist of games in Belgium where a car rammed a van carrying the new call of duty game, the assailants threw tear gas into the van and then heisted $600,000 worth of games.

    COD rules, plus they added my 6.8 to the weapon options.

  • dfwfire

    BUSH !!! AGAIN !!! D*MN YOU, EVILDOER !!!

  • Jason

    …actually, it’s my sister’s basement… *lol*

  • dfwfire

    nice !! i only wish i had come up with that first !! and so f-in’ true.

  • Oops

    yeah that was my bad…

  • Kile

    That’s funny. I walked into Best Buy today and they had HUNDREDS of copies and they were only $59.99. What a loser.

  • lol

    hahaha

  • Kile

    I go there all the time. I love it. It’s my favorite store on the planet. Circuit City and went out of business because they sucked. Comp USA is still around. Never heard of that other place you mentioned.

  • yesh

    Hofs on a nice killstreak

  • Gibbs

    Hof is so smart. He even knows when his sister has a yeast infection because his dad’s unit tastes funny. Bring on amateur.

  • dan walling

    Oh my my Hof … you’ll never recover. How does it taste?

  • Nuke you

    Hey what happened to Hof the mental deficient? The abject degenerate … where did you go loser? lol

  • HPS

    Yes it is

  • Frank Zentura

    He should consider himself lucky that a predator drone didn’t blow him to bits. Isn’t this a terrorist threat?

  • Frank Zentura

    And considering the gratuitous violence in these games is this really surprising???

  • Truth Detector

    Someone’s been playing too much Modern Warfare…

  • JohnRalph

    I was up all night praying to my Mein Lord God High Führer Obama, but alas it didn’t stop the madness.

    After all as MSM Newsweek editor Evan Thomas stated:

    “I mean in a way Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world, he’s sort of God.”

  • birthof

    First world problems, people. This man, and every other person posting here venting about poor customer service obviously has never worked at a place providing service to the rancid hordes of mouth breathers that come to demand service with a distorted sense of entitlement.

  • Hal McCombs

    You’re kind of right. When I give someone money, intending to acquire something else, yes I have a sense of entitlement to that product, or service. I paid for it. With money I worked for.

    And guess what? If you are behind that counter, at that place of business, then YOU are getting paid to provide me with that product, or service. So Smile and do your job.

  • Sebastian Bredfjord

    because you are a black that is acting white

  • joe

    no it’s the store’s fault and he was totally justified in threatening or carrying out his threat

    have you people not played MW3?

  • Omega 13

    Larz,
    Nice Psych reference, but really… lighten up..

  • Terd Fergusson

    There is an easier to way play Modern Warfare, enlist. It’s not like there’s a shortage of action.

  • Joe Schmoe

    17 minutes of video dedicated to the dopey guy? Really?

    Also, if they removed you from their system and you didn’t have an invoice number, how did they reverse the charges on your card?

  • MorganGray

    The problem folks are missing here is that this spoiled brat made a terroristic threat over a *BLOODY GAME*!
    I understand the aggravation over poor customer service. That’s why I changed cell providers, bought a different brand of car, and stopped patronizing Starbucks. But, being an adult, and as Jason suggests above, I know what it is to be a man. I can subject my emotions to my will and deal with customer service in a rational manner without threatening to blow up a store.
    the proper response here would have been “may I speak to the manager please”? and “May I assume that my credit card will not be charged until I receive my merchandise?”
    It sure the heck wasn’t “I feel like blowing up your store”.
    Remember this is a post-9/11 world. We have punks killing people for little enough and this kind of statement has to be taken seriously, otherwise, when some piece of human debris really does dynamite a Best Buy because he didn’t get his game, people will be asking “why didn’t they take the threat seriously?”

  • retired military

    He could have gone onlline and bought the game and had no issues since it would be downloaded to his computer.

  • The Sib

    FedUp Florida, you’re a thief, and you’re the fool.

  • Craig

    You really have no clue what the demographics of gamers are today, do you? Yes, he’s a moron for acting this way, but don’t bring age into it.

  • Smuggler

    I believe it was last saturday. I did all three.

  • Nuisance

    Two stupid decisions:
    1) Making threats over a video game.
    2) Shopping at Best Buy.

  • nuisance

    What are you 12? Best Buy has the worst customer service I’ve ever seen, plus you can get better deals online. I wouldn’t drop a dime in that place.

  • christineinflorida

    What an idiot! He should’ve done as I’ve always done for my teen son- pre-order at Amazon and get same day delivery for 99 cents(or free if you have Prime)? Most of the hot pre-order games also have a $10 or $20 credit to use on next game order. No tax, no driving to the store is also a plus!

  • Nathan Winning Martinez

    gratz! i pirated the PC version from piratebay

  • Chris

    I have a Super Nentindo at home. That’s WAY better than a regular Nentindo.

  • Nathan Winning Martinez

    Tis the reason I pirate games

  • lola

    31 years old?

  • Lomon Sar

    all my info was taped on the box, the lady who took my order said that she would and she did put it on there. then at the release the next day the manager found the game with all of my info on it refunded my card then ripped my info off the box then took me out of the preoder system. wth?

  • Lomon Sar

    they also had hundreds of copies that morning of the release.

  • Lomon Sar

    you’re right i don’t have a girlfriend….i have ladies.

  • Lomon Sar

    like.

  • Lomon Sar

    poor choice of words after an extra hour or so of waiting.

  • Angel :p

    Seriously? Whats up with the racism? And i understand if hes angry,he has a right to do that,he also has a freedom of speech,and i doubt that he would seriously blow up the store for a game.im a gamer myself and im 15.If im smarter than that so is a grown male.

  • De Merrick

    really????????? that was really retarted!!!

  • Bobby

    yea he should have reserved it or even pay for it with a creditcard so they could hold it for him….

  • David Muth

    There were at least 3 CE for the 360 at 2pm on 11/8, so they must have had more than they needed to satisy the pre-orders and prepaid.

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