nerds

Did you see what I did there?  Huh, did you?  That’s all I got…

Well anyway, a recidivist robber is cooling his heels in a jail in Fairfax, Virginia after stealing 300 cards from the insanely popular game Magic: The Gathering in the possession of a self-described “nerd”.  Said nerd, one Kemper Pogue, proceeded to formulate and execute an elaborate trap toward recovering his cards.  Which, incidentally, were worth $8000.

(Are these Magic fans dedicated to their hobby, or what?)

From the story at The Washington Post:

After filing a police report, Pogue decided to do what a
Magic character like Garruk Relentless might do, and hunted down his
enemies with dogged ferocity — sans the battle axe.

He
started by posting a detailed message on Facebook to alert friends in
the Magic community about the theft. Then, he began calling stores in
Northern Virginia and Maryland that specialize

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