I remember when the pokémon cards craze first started. I was in school, and the cards were hot property. After a while, schools began to ban them due to the fights and violence that erupted over the trading. However, it just moved underground, and so began my first foray into the world of the black market.
But we were kids, and this was a card game. Most people grew up, got jobs, moved on with their lives, or moved into serious black market trading. However, some people, unable to grow past trading cards, still squabble and bicker over the small laminated pictures, with near-fatal results.
A pair of fully grown men have been arrested after stabbing people standing in line for Pokémon cards. There are some things worth dying for, but Pokémon cards are none of them.
What Pokémon Has Bottle Stabbing As A Move?
Back when I traded Pokémon in the ’90s, they had moves like tail whip and splash. It appears this guy pulled one with ‘Broken Bottle Stab.’ Times really are changing.
As is the common scene for the mouth breathers that collect Pokémon cards these days, a line had formed outside a Game Stop. They were waiting for the doors to open so they could ‘Collect ‘Em All’. But tensions were high.
A 49-year-old man, fresh from his mother’s basement, didn’t grasp the concept of a line. He cut in, hoping to get his sweaty fingers on the Pokémon cards before the rest. However, this sparked outrage from another of the fanatics.
Deciding to solve things the adult way, the affronted Pokémon fan lashed out at the 49-year-old. Missing, he clocked his 27-year-old friend in the jaw instead. The scene quickly reduced itself to an embarrassing squabble on the floor. Grown men, wrestling over children’s playing cards.
But things took a turn for the worse when the initial line pusher, known as OrellanasFlores, got his hands on a Mason jar. He promptly smashed it over the back of the victim’s head. His friend, Calles, got carried away, and picking up a shard, repeatedly stabbed the victim while the other people in the queue for Pokémon cards watched.
They fled the scene in a car, but not before another keen-eyed Ash Ketchum wannabe snapped a picture of their plates. It wasn’t too long before the two were collected from their mothers’ basements. They were charged with assault with a deadly weapon, assault with a deadly weapon causing great bodily injury, battery with serious bodily injury, and conspiracy to commit a crime.
They will have a wonderful time in prison trading cigarettes, I am sure.