Quoting foreign media kare11, late at night on February 10, a serious theft occurred at a local game card store in Forest Lake, Minnesota, USA, and a man stole a rare Pokémon card worth $250,000 and some cash and escaped.
Trading cards are very popular in Western society, especially Pokémon cards, with a large number of players and collectors, and rare Pokémon cards are extremely valuable. It is reported that the card shop called "Punch Out Gaming" is a mom-and-pop shop that has a good business in the local area, not only trading trading in exchange cards, but also selling all kinds of video games.
There are more and more collectors of Pokémon cards, the store is usually as lively as Wal-Mart supermarkets, and good business is targeted by criminals. On February 10, a man entered the shop next door to the store, and because the two walls were connected, the man punched a small hole in the wall and went directly into the store's storage room. He then spent two hours packing up those valuable Pokémon cards and stealing them, all the activity captured by surveillance cameras. The thief did not go through the front door, so the alarm was not triggered.
The shopkeeper and his wife are now very depressed, although they have taken the insurance, but it is still difficult to hide their loss when they see their years of efforts in vain. They also believe that the criminal is not a person because there are so many boxes that have been dragged away that it is difficult to complete in a short period of time.
The police investigation is still ongoing, because the store is well-known in the local area, many of the incidents have been widely supported by netizens on the Internet, who will pay close attention to the circulation of these stolen cards in the market and report them as soon as they are discovered.