On This Day 2003: Transition Year Student’s Underground CD-Burning Empire Raided By Guards

AN illegal underground CD-Rom burning enterprise believed to be generating as much as €100 a week for a transition student has been successfully dismantled by An Garda Síochána’s serious crimes unit.

The dawn raid involved 104 officer with a dozen rooftop snipers staking out the teenager’s lair; the box room in his parents house.

Evidence found at the scene included piracy paraphernalia such as a black marker for writing ’50 Cent Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ on CDs.

Establishing a vast network of clients in St Brian of The Unmerciful Ballache secondary school, 15-year-old Thomas Quinlain had offered an on-demand service providing students with a variety of offerings for as little as €5.

“The CD Burning kingpin, known on the streets as ‘King Quin’, is no longer in the position to make custom playlists featuring The Strokes, Kings of Leon and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Today it is justice that is King,” confirmed a Garda spokesperson, with a burned DVD with the titled ‘porno’ scrawled on it visibly protruding from his jacket.

The loss in business to the local HMV has been estimated at €407mn. Quinlain faces a sentence of being referred to by his classmates as a legend.

It is believed the guards acted on a tip off from a classmate of Quinlain’s who was left angry and bitter when, despite his copy of System of a Down’s ‘Toxicity’ album missing ‘Chop Suey’, Quinlain failed to offer him a refund or another copy of the album.

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