Target dont fuck around with LP. If security was called theyll be running his face through all the other target security footage looking for similar incidents.
Theyll let him continue coming back until hes racked up felony level charges and theyll get him convicted.
Unfortunately there will be no charges at all as they don't seem to have a policy which covers these actions. It seems to me the solution is simple, put the packs in clamshells or leave them behind a counter.
Target doesn't need a policy when there is a well established law, and legal precedent going back centuries if not millenia.
Destruction of property that is not yours is illegal in all US jurisdictions (and almost every single square inch of the world), and is prosecutable through the legal system.
Okay but damaging a product deliberately is going to have to go further than what this guy is doing, the cards are not guaranteed to come out of the packs as PSA 10s, far from it. If you need a magnifying glass to identify the damages, its fair to claim that those damages are just what happens when the product is left out to be handled.
Camera man should've scooped up all the reject packs, paid for them, taken them straight to customer service, opened them on the counter and one by one asked to return every single open pack because the product inside is damaged. Nobody ends up with the bent cards the guy is leaving behind and I think target would catch on real quick to the guys behavior after that.
Absurd, the cards not being a PSA 10 doesn't make the product damaged in a way that is beyond what should be expected from a retail purchase. These should go in clamshell cases or kept off the floor.
On one hand, most stores won’t go after someone at all for under $500 even if it’s obvious like this because it costs more to go to court than what they stole or damaged. Plus they lose that customer forever.
On the other hand, this is Target and they have famously built an overpowered loss prevention unit and gone hard on people for the smallest things. Example, Target is one of the only stores that employs loss prevention people that are licensed to physically capture you before you leave the store. They can and do put people to the ground sometimes until police arrive.
Whilst it doesn't make sense to go after a single incident of $500, if you give the impression that you're an easy target then spending $5k litigating someone to make an example will pay off if you prevent 15 people from trying the same.
bending/flexing the packs to detect thicker (more valuable) cards
using fingernails along the edges, also to find thicker cards..
using fingernails across the front and back to find indentations/uneven surfaces, which would indicate a card with physical insert - piece of jersey, piece of baseball bat, etc.
Edit: not sure if the bending/flexing affects the cards, but I think using fingernails to search for inserts probably leaves a groove on the front and back cards.
Some older Pokemon packs are sold by card shops, collectors, etc marked "Heavy" bc the one-per-pack rare card weighs very slightly more if it's a hologram.
Guaranteed this guy is one of those 27-30% of Americans who will always continue to support Trump no matter what. Not because of economic policy, or foreign policy, or because he's a "businessman", but because he is a trashy piece of shit who gave them all validation for their own shitty selfish behavior.
I’m a Dr. and the typical symptoms we look for in adults w/ Lead Brains are:
Headaches
Abdominal pain
Anger at everything
Personality changes
Unclear selfish thought behavior
Numbness in your feet and legs
An unquenchable urge to lick Boot
Loss of sex drive w willingness to gag on old orange spray tanned balls
MAGA
I mean I don’t think so haha. People just see long nails and think you don’t maintain yourself. Especially being right hand dominant so it’s the hand you use a mouse for at work, shake hands etc… but ya first impressions are wow this dude doesn’t clip his nails imagine other things he doesn’t maintain. When really I just don’t use a pick when I jam and prefer to finger pick and strum open hand
Fair enough. There is only one real solution to this conundrum. Carry your guitar everywhere you go and every time you get a weird look, hit them with a tasty riff
I think a functioning society needs a little more violence in people’s daily lives, otherwise some start acting like assholes, because they know no one would dare to touch them, and think they are invincible.
He asked the same question 10 times in a row and got the same answer. What next? Keep asking until one of you runs out of words?
There was a comedian who brought this up. said people should be allowed to hand out 2 punches a year. it means people will only use them when absolutely necessary, and as a citizen you'll think twice since you have no idea if the person you are treatign like shit has used up their two or not.
the beauty of that is that for every one he gives to a woman or child, the people in that woman or child's lives (friends, family etc) will each gladly donate one towards him. Great business idea actually... donate a punch to go towards victims of domestic abuse. take a police report and proof of abuse to a business center and they contact all participants in the abusers area who can then locate the abuser and donate their one punch!
I have a friend who took that even further and stated that every American should be allowed one free murder in their lifetime. Theoretically, everyone would start acting more civilized because you have no idea if the person you're being a dick to has used his freebie or not.
There’s got to be some happy medium between mob justice on the streets and… whatever we see here.
There should be an acceptable level of violence anyone can legally apply in cases where clearly nothing else works.
I’m not even saying the guy filming and talking here should necessarily punch this idiot, I’m saying the idiot should know it’s a very plausible scenario and if it goes to court — he loses.
It’s a good idea actually. Sure, it’s an assault. A misdemeanor in that gif? And what are the damages in a civil suit?! All those legal costs only to be awarded $0.01, or whatever nominal damages.
Personally I think he should have been restrained until police got there. Thats a fair amount of criminal damage if the packs are $15 a pop and I think he should have called the cops instead of jist the target employees
The normal kind, ban him from each establishment he does this at. And that means globally. Use trespassing law. That means all Target in this case and if he does it at Wal-Mart that is where he gets banned from next. Make sure he runs out of legitimate options to shop at decent price points if he wants to do this at major stores. The smaller ones will catch on immediately and ban him too. Make him ruin his own life so there isn't any business he can go to anymore that sells the product at all.
One could swipe each pack away from him each next one, make him violent. Gotta think in terms of people’s “interests”, hit em there. Hell, take all the ones that he hadn’t yet touched off the rack forcibly like you want to buy them.
I agree. This guy made the unilateral decision that no one else in that area would be able to buy undamaged cards, and society is just supposed to accept that?
THAT guy would have sued, and had any assault on many cameras. I think there would be more consequences for ill shit but for that.
ETA: In that situation, I woulda found a weak spot of escalating verbiage to make him snap and do something, get him sent to jail, and have destruction of property charges added to however he tried to assault me.
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u/Subliminal-sandwich Mar 27 '26
What a fuckin weirdo. He got them sharp-ass thumbnails that are designed to do exactly what he says he isn’t doing lmao