A downtown San Jose business owner is sharing footage of an unusual break-in at Tofu’s Trading, a collectible card store specializing in Pokémon cards and collectibles. Surveillance cameras captured the store’s first break-in in the middle of the night on January 24, 2024.
Thieves stole 35,000 Pokémon cards from Tofu’s Trading, and the store’s staff mocked the culprits in a humorously edited video that has gone viral. The surveillance footage showed three suspects crawling on the floor to enter the store. Although the theft was upsetting, the staff decided to find humor in the situation by sharing the video online.
“We saw like three people breaking in through our side door which was kind of ridiculous because there’s a fridge blocking it – so I don’t think it was a targeted attack at all,” store manager Amy Simpson said.
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“A lot of stuff releasing this week and we thought it was funny, we were like, ‘Oh, these people don’t realize that it releases on Friday, not like on Wednesday at 2 a.m.” Simpson said. “I don’t think they were in for hobby necessarily because they didn’t know what to take.”
The store’s owner, Ann Ma, commented on the suspects’ lack of Pokémon knowledge. They took valuable cards worth a few hundred dollars each but missed out on a special set of cards that are released only once a year. Ma believes that the thieves were unaware of the upcoming release.
“We do have a sense of humor, so it was really silly to see them crawling,” said stream and operations manager Ann Ma. “We also like to take a bad time and find a little humor in it. There’s not much we can do right now, so there’s no point in moping over it so might as well make people laugh.”
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Tofu’s Trading staff members cleared the glass cases of cards and secured them as a precautionary measure. The total cost of what was stolen is still being calculated by insurance.
Pokémon cards remain popular, as evidenced by the number of thefts involving them. In March 2022, a Georgia man misused government funds to buy a rare, shiny Charizard Pokémon card using a COVID-19 relief payment. In 2022, an independent gaming store in Minnesota reported a theft of around $250,000 worth of Pokémon merchandise. One month later, a 28-year-old man was arrested for allegedly using a rope to descend into a Japanese store and stealing Pokémon cards and cash.
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