Reports are coming in around the country that ‘Operation Mo-Money’, a joint operation from Gibson, FBI, and the RIAA has begun.   Best Buy and Circuit City retail stores around the country are reporting that raids are randomly occurring, with armed men storming the stores and confiscating any guitars.   FBI SWAT teams, reportedly wielding plastic guns, rushed each store while representatives from Gibson and the RIAA oversaw the operation.  All Gibson guitars were confiscated, whether they were real, video game related, Activision branded or not.  “Better to be safe than sorry”.

Gibson representative Barney Sleats stated “We take our intellectual property very seriously.   It’s very clear in our patent that anything that looks like a guitar that isn’t a guitar is ours.  So selling fake guitars without giving us mo-money is bad.”   Several of the raids have produced incidents, including wedgies, noogies, and one of the representatives from Gibson got kicked in the nuts.  Hard.  He fell down.

One bystander commented, “They don’t even have real guns.  They’re plastic.  How would they feel if Remington busted into their house and took their toys away.”

One of the RIAA reps was asked what their role in ‘Operation Mo-Money’ was, they simply stated ‘We heard there was a lawsuit, so we are here’.