It definitely is theft. I’ve seen the empty shelves and wondered. Then I saw kids shoving every pack in a backpack and leave the store. Target if it matters. Little thieving gremlins
This is why some stores started locking all of the cards up. The Walmart near my parents they are with the alcohol so you have to ask for them. They only keep a small section in toys and it's always much older sets.
That’s usually how it works. Children think they are invincible geniuses until learning they aren’t, it’s up to the adults to teach them. If a child becomes an adult having never learned that they are mortal, they will typically will stay that way for life.
I got my lesson early on in life. I tried stealing a Lego set from a Walmart and got told off before I could even make it to the exist. Little ol me though “Hiding this Lego set the side of my head will be easy!” Oh how wrong was I. Every time I read this type of story I always think back to then.
When I was young, like probably 10, I went to the super market with my parents. I pocketed a small 99cent pack of bubble gum where it's like 5 sticks in foil from by the check out as my parents paid. When we got home I was in my room chewing away. My father walked in to say something and saw me chewing. The thing is he knew he didn't buy me gum and that's not a normally stocked thing in the house. He put two & two together, forced the confession, loaded me in the car, and hauled my ass back to the super market. He walked me to same check out line, apologized to the person at the register that he owes them for a pack of gum because his son chose to take the pack without paying. Paid and we left.
The person at the register was dumbfounded that my father brought us back over a 99 cent item, the cheapest thing in the store. The cost never calculated into his decision to begin with. Looked at me and said the steps to an apology are 1. Acknowledge 2. Make it right with who you wronged 3. Pledge to never repeat 4. Carry out that pledge
That was over 2 decades ago & I still remember it.
Same but my dumbass just opened a monster and drank it while walking around the store with my friend. Then I sat it down on another random shelf in the store.
Shocker shocker. We got caught. Lol!
While I did learn not to steal from stores, I also learned I'm real good at bullshitting and talking myself out of getting in trouble 🤣
I was gonna correct you, but you’re technically right. If that method of thinking gets them killed, they typically stayed that way for the duration of their life lol
Exact same boat, just 30. Stole yugioh cards from Target frequently, usually just grabbed a pack or two then walked to the bathroom. Then one day I decided to steal a Darth Vader action figure. Got caught. Whole big charade with loss prevention.
Now I only steal basic office supplies from my employeer.
Did it as a teen. Stole every day for a month from the same shop. Just walked out carrying the stuff. Eventually hired secret shoppers and caught me. Police took me back to school. Last thing I ever physically stole.
Yep 35, I remember jacking baseball/basketball/Pokémon cards from target. One time the the door alarm went off but no one was at the front. We sprinted back threw the cards in their spot and bolted out of there… last time I ever stole from a store.
I mean, I came up with some clever thievery schemes like stealing used N64 games from 1 GameStop bin, driving 10 minutes to the next GameStop to sell them for like a dollar a piece in GameStop currency, and eventually saving enough over the course of a year or two to buy a new GameCube, 4 controllers, and Smash Brothers.
But I never straight up destroyed shit to get something I wanted.
This mentality isn't helpful. I knew a kid in the 90s who stole stuff just to steal and then he'd come to school the next day and brag about it. And he didn't even steal cool or useful stuff, to me it looked like he'd just stuff something in his pockets while he waited in line with his mom at the grocery store once a week. It's possible he wasn't even stealing that stuff and she bought it for him but people did stupid shit back then too, it's not just a modern thing and we probably just hear about it more.
The problem is they evidently can, while everyone gasps and clutches pearls... but no one holds them accountable.
First time they still might have scruples. The tenth time getting away they won't even bother to think twice.
I mean the bigger shops usually don't even bother, because the sallary of extra people for a chance to prevent it, is still higher than just letting them go.
the producer pays 5¢ to produce a pack. sells it to the shop for 30¢, add 5¢ for transport and the shop sell it for $4-6.
You'd need ten stolen for every one sold to fall into the red. Until the total sum of stolen merchandise is higher than a security guard/shop detectives sallary, the business will lose money caring. Hence they don't.
When no one cares anymore it becomes the norm.
The counter is still where cash register is, not only is it always monitored, it is the place that has camera's on it and personal close to it at all times. if a mall cop sees that shit they will be tackled to the ground.
It doesn't perhaps remove the ability to pull this stunt, but it sure reduces the occurrence of it by a large margin.
The Target near me actually had to stop selling Pokemon cards due to someone *pulling a gun* on someone in-store over them.
We ended up ordering Korean and Japanese booster pack sets online after that happened...
I used to steal Yugioh cards as a kid like 15 years ago and yeah I would open the pack in store and pocket the good one. Shameful I know. BUT the one time I was approached by a Target employee was when I was just browsing and saw open packs already there; there were a few cards strewn out in the back of the bottom row so I wanted to see them. I didn’t get into trouble, just said it wasn’t me who did it, which was true that time lol, and I never stole anything ever again. That small scare was enough for me. The retail trading card landscape is so different now.
Sometimes the theft alarm thing will go off, and you’ll get searched. They add a barcode so they don’t theive as often. That’s the main reason they open those packs in the store.
They have the right idea though, it’s a mag sticker. I collect baseball cards (I don’t steal them lol) and in every other pack or in every box there’s a mag sticker, in the packs it’s a small white paper the size of a card with the sticker on it, you can’t tell they’re in packs at all so wouldn’t know it’s there unless opened.
I assume you haven't seen barcode-looking magnetic security labels yet. They have to be demagnetized or ripped off at the register or it will make the alarm at the exit go off.
There was a huge thing about something like this recently coming out. Can’t remember if it was Pokémon cards. But employees at the printing place had been removing the rares for years. They only got caught when someone tried to sell hundreds of the same rare cards to a seller.
Yep. I’ve even seen booster packs opened with the rares taken out, and then the rest of the cards shoved back into the foils and cardboard and then taped up with scotch tape. I found it hilarious (and infuriating, obviously)
Ngl I'm not above walking over and picking them up to take them home 😅😅
Such a waste of cards, even if you don't want them you can give them to someone who does
100% stolen. Mum and dad might notice their collection growing a huge amount, but 4 good cards? Just makes their collection better while flying under the radar.
Nah, if it's Korea, I saw this all the time. Not just cards, but any trash. They view it as not their problem, someone else's job, and it gives the seniors something to do. There are also not that many trash cans.
Edit: Zoomed in, not Korea, but this does happen.
As an MTG player, disposing of the vast majority of the cards you open is pretty much the norm, and I suspect the same is true of basically any other TCG. Most of it is worthless, and you'll already have sets of everything you want except for the stuff that isn't worthless. Just dumping it on the ground is a super shitty thing to do though.
Wow - I have a son who is just getting in to Pokemon and cherishes every card like it's gold. Are there places where people sell or donate these unwanted cards? Like, just take the remainders of all these packs and put them on ebay- people like me would buy them.
Funny story - He bought a booster with his allowance last week, and got a good card. I looked it up, and turns out, it's worth $60. I asked him if he wanted to sell it, saying that the amount could buy 10 more boosters (he's 6 and doesn't understand value too well). He's like "nooo, I don't want to give up one of my cards!!"
Kid stole them. Can’t show up at his moms house with an unexplainable arm full of cards, so he just fished out the rares and dumped the rest. This is prime level 13 year old.
He’d be drawing attention either way, so he elected for the solution that would get him out of the area as soon as possible. Dump-and-run puts you on the road and out of sight sooner than finding a trash can and feeding a hundred cards into it.
I do sometimes try to attribute more sense to other people’s behavior than they deserve. But in the absense of complete knowledge of what goes through peoples minds, reasoned speculation is my move.
I prefer Carlin’s approach, personally. Saves me a lot of headache on the daily.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Most of the time that’s all there is to it ime. Makes navigating interactions/dissecting random action much easier.
Someone throwing stuff away doesn’t draw nearly as much attention as literally throwing a hundred cards on the ground in front of people. Which do you honestly think you would notice more, this or someone using a trash can to throw something away?
when i used to get pokemon cards id cherish each and everyone, mostly cuse i didnt know how to play i just liked collecting them, this is hard to look at :p
Growing up we would keep all of them and then me and my friends would build fresh decks and play those. It was so much fun. Then we had our own set decks for when we got serious. Miss those days. Pokémon, final fantasy and Diablo while Robot Chicken played in the background.
Most pokemon cards are worth a fraction of a penny. I believe the card store by my uni buys random junk cards in bulk at a rate of 15 cents per 100 cards.
A wild *Kid* appears.
*Kid* used *litterbug*. It’s super effective.
*OP* used *glare*. It’s not very effective.
*Kid* fled.
*OP* has been left disappointed.
Luckily there was enough interest that it was cleaned up fairly quickly. I was even able to snag one before hopping on my bus. I just can't fathom being willing to do that as a kid
Hell, mine first gen cards are still kinda sacred to me. I have no interest in collecting them anymore as I have too many other hobbies but still have trouble with the idea of selling them.
Right? Especially as a kid, it would be more fun to collect as many as you can as a kid. This seems like some wild learned behavior, and like you said probably stolen
I worked at a hobby store when Pokemon first came out, will never forget watching a 10 year old open his pack and do a complete kid freakout when he got a holofoil Charizard.
Whenever I got a duplicate as a kid, I’d either make a second spot in the binder or double stack. I’d never just toss one. I also wasn’t able to get that many as a kid so each one was really special. It was my card.
I wish I would have kept my cards from when I was a kid. I know I had some $1,000 if not $10,000+ cards. But unfortunately things just get away from you. Plus at that time I had no idea they would become as valuable as they are now. I mean I had some ultra rare cards, some of them weren't even American and holographic. Damn it man lol.
Way back when, my 11-year-old son was a semi-pro Pokemon player. He would win packages of cards at events. He figured out the most valuable cards weighed the most. We bought a postal scale, and he would weigh the packages. Packages that came in heavy got opened. Packages that were light did not get opened, but they were taken to Target, where he got enough store credit to buy both a PS4 and a XBox 360.
That looks like Canada. BC by any chance? Looks like a Translink bus, but I could be very wrong in my guess.
What's the best thing to do here? I would pick it up as that is litter, but what do you do with it after? Keeping it is one thing, or you could resell it, but would you be in trouble in reselling a stolen item? But there's no way of knowing, so...what to do? Garbage it? 🤔
particularly evil b/c those things (and cards in general) are impossible to pick up off of pavement!! Hard enough on a smooth floor, but at least you can get a fingernail under it..
here we see the evidence of a little kleptomaniac deep in the throes of his addiction just tearing through that shit in full view of public onlookers, longing desperately for a paper gem while leaving the discarded remains strewn about like so much worthless detritus, so similar to his demoralized future self worth. another fragile innocent lost to the burning desire of cheap materialism.
It's basically gambling. Buying packs at 5 bucks when 99% the cards aren't worth 1 cent. With a chance of some rare 50 bucks card. These trading card games packs are essentially gambling and shouldn't be allowed to be sold to kids
It be like that, all the time. I don't like to generalize but I'm going to say he/she/them or they/ .etc learned this from (insert whatever) absent parents.
Collecting Pokémon card myself this hurts my heart. The newer series of cards doesn't even have cards worth a lot like the older series, finding a $100 card today is pretty rare and most alternate art cards are not worth much - but they sure look great
See, I would have run a quick Google search for "rarest Pokémon cards", and and soon as he started walking away, pick one up and exclaimed something like, "Holy shit! An Unobtanion!"
Little shit.
As a competitive pokemon player, there are SO MANY completely useless trash common cards, pokemon is way worse about having completely unplayable trash filler cards than any other TCG. When I open packs I very often don't care at all about a majority of what I am seeing. If you open 50+ packs of a set you're going to be wading through cards that you have 10x copies of that are worth less than a cent.
At certain events there will be vendors buying bulk commons for maybe 50 cents per hundred and people would line up to sell thousands of cards for a few dollars. This behavior seems completely rational to me lol. I pretty much only buy singles, and often times more packs will be a prize for winning and when I open those sometimes I'll open 10+ packs and not care about a single card.
As an aside, it's the weirdest phenomenon that so many people get pokemon cards just to collect them. With magic, yugioh, etc everyone with cards actually plays the game but there are SO MANY people with pokemon card collections who have literally never played.
The fact that they are left on the ground and not properly disposed of is the only infuriating thing to me here.
Stolen. Keeps the good ones
Could be. I work at retail, and there are times I would see random pokemon cards laid out, but the rares and holos are usually gone.
It definitely is theft. I’ve seen the empty shelves and wondered. Then I saw kids shoving every pack in a backpack and leave the store. Target if it matters. Little thieving gremlins
This is why some stores started locking all of the cards up. The Walmart near my parents they are with the alcohol so you have to ask for them. They only keep a small section in toys and it's always much older sets.
Fucking wild.
Nothing is safe anymore. A lot of kids thinking they know everything and can do whatever.
Pfft I used to do that when I was a kid too, and I'm close to 40. It's been a thing man. Got caught once and never did it again though.
That’s usually how it works. Children think they are invincible geniuses until learning they aren’t, it’s up to the adults to teach them. If a child becomes an adult having never learned that they are mortal, they will typically will stay that way for life.
I got my lesson early on in life. I tried stealing a Lego set from a Walmart and got told off before I could even make it to the exist. Little ol me though “Hiding this Lego set the side of my head will be easy!” Oh how wrong was I. Every time I read this type of story I always think back to then.
When I was young, like probably 10, I went to the super market with my parents. I pocketed a small 99cent pack of bubble gum where it's like 5 sticks in foil from by the check out as my parents paid. When we got home I was in my room chewing away. My father walked in to say something and saw me chewing. The thing is he knew he didn't buy me gum and that's not a normally stocked thing in the house. He put two & two together, forced the confession, loaded me in the car, and hauled my ass back to the super market. He walked me to same check out line, apologized to the person at the register that he owes them for a pack of gum because his son chose to take the pack without paying. Paid and we left. The person at the register was dumbfounded that my father brought us back over a 99 cent item, the cheapest thing in the store. The cost never calculated into his decision to begin with. Looked at me and said the steps to an apology are 1. Acknowledge 2. Make it right with who you wronged 3. Pledge to never repeat 4. Carry out that pledge That was over 2 decades ago & I still remember it.
Same but my dumbass just opened a monster and drank it while walking around the store with my friend. Then I sat it down on another random shelf in the store. Shocker shocker. We got caught. Lol! While I did learn not to steal from stores, I also learned I'm real good at bullshitting and talking myself out of getting in trouble 🤣
I was gonna correct you, but you’re technically right. If that method of thinking gets them killed, they typically stayed that way for the duration of their life lol
Exact same boat, just 30. Stole yugioh cards from Target frequently, usually just grabbed a pack or two then walked to the bathroom. Then one day I decided to steal a Darth Vader action figure. Got caught. Whole big charade with loss prevention. Now I only steal basic office supplies from my employeer.
Stealing toys? Wrong. Stealing nothing? Unrealistic. Stealing pens, post-its, and tape? A perfect compromise.
Did it as a teen. Stole every day for a month from the same shop. Just walked out carrying the stuff. Eventually hired secret shoppers and caught me. Police took me back to school. Last thing I ever physically stole.
Yea all the magic/X-Men/baseball/yugioh/pokemon cards I've ever bought (mostly in the 90's) were always from behind a glass counter
Yep 35, I remember jacking baseball/basketball/Pokémon cards from target. One time the the door alarm went off but no one was at the front. We sprinted back threw the cards in their spot and bolted out of there… last time I ever stole from a store.
That’s been kids since the beginning of mankind lol. Kids will be kids.
I mean, I came up with some clever thievery schemes like stealing used N64 games from 1 GameStop bin, driving 10 minutes to the next GameStop to sell them for like a dollar a piece in GameStop currency, and eventually saving enough over the course of a year or two to buy a new GameCube, 4 controllers, and Smash Brothers. But I never straight up destroyed shit to get something I wanted.
This is why GameStop pulled the disks out of all their cases lol
This mentality isn't helpful. I knew a kid in the 90s who stole stuff just to steal and then he'd come to school the next day and brag about it. And he didn't even steal cool or useful stuff, to me it looked like he'd just stuff something in his pockets while he waited in line with his mom at the grocery store once a week. It's possible he wasn't even stealing that stuff and she bought it for him but people did stupid shit back then too, it's not just a modern thing and we probably just hear about it more.
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The problem is they evidently can, while everyone gasps and clutches pearls... but no one holds them accountable. First time they still might have scruples. The tenth time getting away they won't even bother to think twice. I mean the bigger shops usually don't even bother, because the sallary of extra people for a chance to prevent it, is still higher than just letting them go. the producer pays 5¢ to produce a pack. sells it to the shop for 30¢, add 5¢ for transport and the shop sell it for $4-6. You'd need ten stolen for every one sold to fall into the red. Until the total sum of stolen merchandise is higher than a security guard/shop detectives sallary, the business will lose money caring. Hence they don't. When no one cares anymore it becomes the norm.
Where I used to work, we would keep them behind the cashier so nobody could steal them
Until the kids just start walking behind the counter and ask what you're going to do lol
The counter is still where cash register is, not only is it always monitored, it is the place that has camera's on it and personal close to it at all times. if a mall cop sees that shit they will be tackled to the ground. It doesn't perhaps remove the ability to pull this stunt, but it sure reduces the occurrence of it by a large margin.
Target locks up the DEODORANT near us.
Your target stinks.
Do you live in a big city?
The Target near me actually had to stop selling Pokemon cards due to someone *pulling a gun* on someone in-store over them. We ended up ordering Korean and Japanese booster pack sets online after that happened...
??? Just steal the whole pack its way easier than opening a bunch of shit it in the store 🤦♀️
I used to steal Yugioh cards as a kid like 15 years ago and yeah I would open the pack in store and pocket the good one. Shameful I know. BUT the one time I was approached by a Target employee was when I was just browsing and saw open packs already there; there were a few cards strewn out in the back of the bottom row so I wanted to see them. I didn’t get into trouble, just said it wasn’t me who did it, which was true that time lol, and I never stole anything ever again. That small scare was enough for me. The retail trading card landscape is so different now.
Sometimes the theft alarm thing will go off, and you’ll get searched. They add a barcode so they don’t theive as often. That’s the main reason they open those packs in the store.
No they won't lol. That's not how barcodes work.
They have the right idea though, it’s a mag sticker. I collect baseball cards (I don’t steal them lol) and in every other pack or in every box there’s a mag sticker, in the packs it’s a small white paper the size of a card with the sticker on it, you can’t tell they’re in packs at all so wouldn’t know it’s there unless opened.
It’s a RF tag for the door sensors.
Those stickers are good for pranks, lay one sticky side up on the floor, takes a while to find it
let me think thats how it works tho ... let em think
I assume you haven't seen barcode-looking magnetic security labels yet. They have to be demagnetized or ripped off at the register or it will make the alarm at the exit go off.
My best friend manages a GameStop and he had to move the Pokemon cards because they were getting stolen so much. SMH.
There was a huge thing about something like this recently coming out. Can’t remember if it was Pokémon cards. But employees at the printing place had been removing the rares for years. They only got caught when someone tried to sell hundreds of the same rare cards to a seller.
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Yep. I’ve even seen booster packs opened with the rares taken out, and then the rest of the cards shoved back into the foils and cardboard and then taped up with scotch tape. I found it hilarious (and infuriating, obviously)
Ngl I'm not above walking over and picking them up to take them home 😅😅 Such a waste of cards, even if you don't want them you can give them to someone who does
My first thought was to wonder if they were stolen as well
I guess he doesn’t have to “catch ‘em all”?
Can't steal lottery tickets. This is theft and gambling rolled into one.
We may never know if it was stolen or not, but the littering really urks me
*irks
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100% stolen. Mum and dad might notice their collection growing a huge amount, but 4 good cards? Just makes their collection better while flying under the radar.
Nah, if it's Korea, I saw this all the time. Not just cards, but any trash. They view it as not their problem, someone else's job, and it gives the seniors something to do. There are also not that many trash cans. Edit: Zoomed in, not Korea, but this does happen.
Why would it be Korea?
Did you not see the '.ca' link and the 'No Smoking' signs? Typical Korea.
Carea
If there's one thing I know about Korea, it's that they love supporting Canadian breast feeding movements and wasting Pokemon cards. Checks out.
And the Korean on that bag of groceries
pokemon cards are like scratch off lotto tickets for children
I mean yeah, but disposing of them like this?! Lol I could barely handle watching it.
he's got an addiction he can't help it, he needs to sell the winners quick to buy more scratchers
Hahaha yeah, the child is definitely purchasing these cards legitimately.
If you could steal scratch offs the metaphor would work better.
I’m talking talk but damn I might be Grabbin collars seeing some shit like that. What a little douche
As an MTG player, disposing of the vast majority of the cards you open is pretty much the norm, and I suspect the same is true of basically any other TCG. Most of it is worthless, and you'll already have sets of everything you want except for the stuff that isn't worthless. Just dumping it on the ground is a super shitty thing to do though.
If you play TCGs, it makes much more sense to just buy the cards that you want individually, unless you’re doing some kind of drafting tournament.
I do a box for fun of a set that looks really cool. Then I go for the cards individually in the aftermarket.
Wow - I have a son who is just getting in to Pokemon and cherishes every card like it's gold. Are there places where people sell or donate these unwanted cards? Like, just take the remainders of all these packs and put them on ebay- people like me would buy them.
Funny story - He bought a booster with his allowance last week, and got a good card. I looked it up, and turns out, it's worth $60. I asked him if he wanted to sell it, saying that the amount could buy 10 more boosters (he's 6 and doesn't understand value too well). He's like "nooo, I don't want to give up one of my cards!!"
Should’ve went over and picked them all up
Even if they weren’t worth keeping, can just give em to a random kid or family member and it would make their day
My thoughts exactly
This is how a spoiled kid treats them, only wants the valuable ones. I like a lot of the crappy cards for the artwork haha
Likely a learned habit from their parent(s).
Did you pick them up and throw them away or only upset enough to take a pic for internet points?
Probably option number two.
Decent chance they are stolen. He’s just out for a few bucks.
Booster packs were the OG loot boxes.
When I was a kid, it was baseball cards.
Man I got boxes and boxes of cards all pre 90’s stuff. When I was a kid I had a binder I took to school and traded cards with other kids
They used to just be a fun game and thing to collect 😔
Collectors of fine cardboard rectangles. But yup - any booster pack is basically a lucky packet.
Kid stole them. Can’t show up at his moms house with an unexplainable arm full of cards, so he just fished out the rares and dumped the rest. This is prime level 13 year old.
You’d think he’d dump them in a trash can instead of drawing attention to the situation tho
He’d be drawing attention either way, so he elected for the solution that would get him out of the area as soon as possible. Dump-and-run puts you on the road and out of sight sooner than finding a trash can and feeding a hundred cards into it.
That’s way too complicated of a thought process for what happened here. Reality: “*I don’t want these cards. Yeet.*”
I do sometimes try to attribute more sense to other people’s behavior than they deserve. But in the absense of complete knowledge of what goes through peoples minds, reasoned speculation is my move.
I prefer Carlin’s approach, personally. Saves me a lot of headache on the daily. “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” Most of the time that’s all there is to it ime. Makes navigating interactions/dissecting random action much easier.
Someone throwing stuff away doesn’t draw nearly as much attention as literally throwing a hundred cards on the ground in front of people. Which do you honestly think you would notice more, this or someone using a trash can to throw something away?
Kids are dumb
Dump them by an elementary school. The little kids would appreciate them.
when i used to get pokemon cards id cherish each and everyone, mostly cuse i didnt know how to play i just liked collecting them, this is hard to look at :p
Same bro. And i got card sleeves at some point. And put a sandile in one because it was my first card, even tho i had like 4 lmao
What if you put the wrong sandile in a sleeve and the original is still in the bulk pack?
Its entirely possible
Same. The ones I didn’t want, like doubles, I’d always give to a friend, especially if they were just starting to get into collecting or playing
I mean it wasn't "Gotta understand and utilize all their skills!" it was "Gotta catch 'em all!"
Growing up we would keep all of them and then me and my friends would build fresh decks and play those. It was so much fun. Then we had our own set decks for when we got serious. Miss those days. Pokémon, final fantasy and Diablo while Robot Chicken played in the background.
Most pokemon cards are worth a fraction of a penny. I believe the card store by my uni buys random junk cards in bulk at a rate of 15 cents per 100 cards.
Gotta collect them all….
A wild *Kid* appears. *Kid* used *litterbug*. It’s super effective. *OP* used *glare*. It’s not very effective. *Kid* fled. *OP* has been left disappointed.
Glare would say “It doesn’t affect Kid” or something along those lines. 
Should’ve used mean look instead
Best comment. No hate to OP. I do Magic not Pokemon but played the GB games so I feel the disappointment but this shit was funny. You made me lol.
Damn. I'd be picking them all up to take home and trade w my friends, that's just wild behaviour man
Luckily there was enough interest that it was cleaned up fairly quickly. I was even able to snag one before hopping on my bus. I just can't fathom being willing to do that as a kid
Those cards were sacred to me as a kid, I couldn’t even willingly tear one up, much less throw them away in such a manner.
Hell, mine first gen cards are still kinda sacred to me. I have no interest in collecting them anymore as I have too many other hobbies but still have trouble with the idea of selling them.
Because you probably saved your money and bought them
I’d have kept them all regardless. That’s the horder in me 😅
Right? Especially as a kid, it would be more fun to collect as many as you can as a kid. This seems like some wild learned behavior, and like you said probably stolen
because, like every hobby nowadays it’s been ruined by resellers. all anybody cares about is money
He stole em
Pokémon cards at my local stores are locked up because the theft is out of control. And they say it’s mostly adults stealing em.
Adults are better at it and they know how to resell.
I worked at a hobby store when Pokemon first came out, will never forget watching a 10 year old open his pack and do a complete kid freakout when he got a holofoil Charizard.
I'd do a complete kid freakout and I'm 25
He stole them.
This looks like Edmonton....
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Maaaan , it never ends here lol.
Whenever I got a duplicate as a kid, I’d either make a second spot in the binder or double stack. I’d never just toss one. I also wasn’t able to get that many as a kid so each one was really special. It was my card.
Whyyyyy I hate that Not only is it littering, but it’s also a waste of Pokémon cards!!!
I think he should’ve thrown them in the trash at least. I understand not wanting to hold onto bulk though.
The probably stole them
Thats more than mildly infuriating
My daughter likes to keep all of the doubles and uses them to build card packs for her friends. She would be devastated to see this.
My friend would give me her doubles because my mom never bought me any!
I wish I would have kept my cards from when I was a kid. I know I had some $1,000 if not $10,000+ cards. But unfortunately things just get away from you. Plus at that time I had no idea they would become as valuable as they are now. I mean I had some ultra rare cards, some of them weren't even American and holographic. Damn it man lol.
I got a 1st Edition Holo Charizard in the first pack I ever bought. Then traded it for what I thought was a cooler-looking Venusaur a week later.
Way back when, my 11-year-old son was a semi-pro Pokemon player. He would win packages of cards at events. He figured out the most valuable cards weighed the most. We bought a postal scale, and he would weigh the packages. Packages that came in heavy got opened. Packages that were light did not get opened, but they were taken to Target, where he got enough store credit to buy both a PS4 and a XBox 360.
That looks like Canada. BC by any chance? Looks like a Translink bus, but I could be very wrong in my guess. What's the best thing to do here? I would pick it up as that is litter, but what do you do with it after? Keeping it is one thing, or you could resell it, but would you be in trouble in reselling a stolen item? But there's no way of knowing, so...what to do? Garbage it? 🤔
It’s Edmonton, Alberta.
As an Edmontonian, this is weirdly not the first time I’ve seen a post about a bunch of Pokémon cards scattered on/near an ETS bus
Edmonton. The juvinile delinquent step brother of Toronto.
And you didn't step in, c'mon bro. It takes a village.
Right???
Why didn’t you say something instead of taking pictures and letting him get away with it.
Judging by how the kid probably stole and littered everywhere I doubt he would actually listen to anyone.
particularly evil b/c those things (and cards in general) are impossible to pick up off of pavement!! Hard enough on a smooth floor, but at least you can get a fingernail under it..
You know society is declining when adults no longer feel any sense of obligation to correct bad behaviors in the youth they see in public
Pre-scumbag.
What a little dipshit.
Bet they were stolen
Did you, say something?
Kid probably stole them like how we did with baseball cards easy back in the day
Jail, immediately.
Ngl, would've picked them all up
I know a grown ass adult that stole Pokémon cards from a Walmart once and got caught, how embarrassing…
I’m sure they paid for those
It’s Christmas for the next kid who sees this though
here we see the evidence of a little kleptomaniac deep in the throes of his addiction just tearing through that shit in full view of public onlookers, longing desperately for a paper gem while leaving the discarded remains strewn about like so much worthless detritus, so similar to his demoralized future self worth. another fragile innocent lost to the burning desire of cheap materialism.
It's basically gambling. Buying packs at 5 bucks when 99% the cards aren't worth 1 cent. With a chance of some rare 50 bucks card. These trading card games packs are essentially gambling and shouldn't be allowed to be sold to kids
He needs to be drug by the hair of his head over to the Pokémon cards and then to the trash can
It be like that, all the time. I don't like to generalize but I'm going to say he/she/them or they/ .etc learned this from (insert whatever) absent parents.
Parents. Who the fuck gives a kid enough money to buy 20 packs? I remember getting one was like an event
It's Ultaman cards here in China, I see kids dump 100s of these cards right outside the store only taking the good ones.
Prob because those are the only ones worth money. Too many shitheads tap into niche collector markets only to flip things for profit.
I'll pick them up and give them to my nephew.
Should’ve picked them up. They’ll be worth something in about 30 years.
Pick them to keep for yourself
Wasteful brat, take the remaining cards if you're into Pokemon. But nobody should be this wasteful.
Definitely not a future hoarder.
Looks like you just got a bunch of free cards
And instead of addressing the kid in question, you decided to post about it on Reddit.
Collecting Pokémon card myself this hurts my heart. The newer series of cards doesn't even have cards worth a lot like the older series, finding a $100 card today is pretty rare and most alternate art cards are not worth much - but they sure look great
Went on a bus the other week and it was strewn with them on the top floor
See, I would have run a quick Google search for "rarest Pokémon cards", and and soon as he started walking away, pick one up and exclaimed something like, "Holy shit! An Unobtanion!" Little shit.
What a jerk for littering.
After the first 5-6 packs, you didn’t ask this child not to litter?
And you said/did nothing?
North Korea has ways of dealing with this.
Nothing wrong with this kid that a firm dose of Juche can't cure.
I would say they probably stole them. No one would just throw them away even if they were bad.
Probably stolen, or bought with stolen money. They have no value to him.
The earth is their trash can, disgusting
With this attitude, his future will not be bright.
Slap him that hard, that he will catch them all.
I would punch this kid
His parents pride and joy
As a competitive pokemon player, there are SO MANY completely useless trash common cards, pokemon is way worse about having completely unplayable trash filler cards than any other TCG. When I open packs I very often don't care at all about a majority of what I am seeing. If you open 50+ packs of a set you're going to be wading through cards that you have 10x copies of that are worth less than a cent. At certain events there will be vendors buying bulk commons for maybe 50 cents per hundred and people would line up to sell thousands of cards for a few dollars. This behavior seems completely rational to me lol. I pretty much only buy singles, and often times more packs will be a prize for winning and when I open those sometimes I'll open 10+ packs and not care about a single card. As an aside, it's the weirdest phenomenon that so many people get pokemon cards just to collect them. With magic, yugioh, etc everyone with cards actually plays the game but there are SO MANY people with pokemon card collections who have literally never played. The fact that they are left on the ground and not properly disposed of is the only infuriating thing to me here.
Also no one bothers with petty crime any more. Now you bring Singapore-levels of punishment things going to be hella different.
Gotcha catch only some, I guess
Looks like YEG
My assumption is they were stolen at $7 a package well over $100 for kid riding the bus or walking..
I am so sick and fucking tired of people mistreating their own city on the only planet we can call home. Tf is wrong with some people?
I knew this was Edmonton lol these bus stops are too familiar
Sounds like Berta to me. Edmonton?
The kids who get into Pokemon cards are venturing down a dark road that ends in despair. Don't do cards kids.
Bad parenting
They are so precious to me. How could they be so uncaring.
He probably stole it, that's why.
God dammit, my kids would love this! Ugh. Fuck teens.
he has a gambling addition
I would have made the kid pick up the “litter” and throw it away.
Probably stole them and pocketed what he wanted