SANTA ANA, Calif. – Nearly $1 million in rare trading cards, including highly valued Pokémon cards, were stolen from a FedEx truck parked near a California business that authenticates and grades the collectible items, according to police.
The theft is the latest in a string of heists involving Pokémon cards, which have exponentially increased in value in recent years.
The Santa Ana Police Department said in a statement on Tuesday that the heist occurred on Oct. 13 outside the Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA) office in Santa Ana.
The hundreds of stolen cards are estimated to be worth a total of $963,000, according to police.
“However, the exact value of the stolen items has not yet been determined,” according to the Santa Ana police statement.
I’ll never understand how shiny cardboard is so valuable. My generation is pathetic. We were supposed to save the world, but we’re no better than the greedy boomers that came before us.
Same reason shiny metals, shiny rocks, and shiny scraps of paper are valuable.
People like them, or are conditioned to like them, or it would take too many beaver pelts to buy a car.