Man steals Pokémon cards on the job in 'largest' theft the game has ever seen, tries to sell his haul, but the law is super effective
Pokémon is one of the biggest entertainment brands on the planet, and one of its most popular and profitable offshoots has always been The Pokémon Trading Card Game. Part of the TCG's appeal, appropriately enough, is that it's an ever-evolving ecosystem that constantly receives new sets and lines to keep the collectors happy. Unfortunately, a somewhat hapless thief's get-rich-quick scheme has enraptured the community, as well as opening a very specific old wound.
The drama began with a photograph posted on a closed Pokémon World Facebook group before acquiring traction on the PokémonTCG subreddit(opens in new tab) (thanks, Kotaku(opens in new tab)). It shows a table covered in 'hit' cards, which is to say rare and holographic pulls, from a Pokémon TCG series called Fusion Strike. The number of cards in the picture is impossible to say but the depth of the stacks and filled boxes suggest there are multiple thousands.
«Saw this on a FB group,» redditor GuavaWave wrote when posting the photograph. «Allegedly, printing company worker stole hits off the line and tried to offload them to a LGS.»
This amount of these specific cards is, to say the least, not normal. These cards are so sought-after because of their rarity, so a collector having multiple thousands of the rarest in perfect condition from a single set (and a set which, as we'll come to, has its own controversy over the rare cards) was bound to raise some eyebrows: And sure enough, it did.
The alleged thief tried to sell the haul to a Dallas-based company called Trading Card World (TCW). The staff were immediately suspicious of the cards' origins and, when questioned, the seller informed them he worked for a Pokémon card printing company. TCW then contacted The
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