Hey, our moms threw out our baseball cards and we didn't do this!

Dboneesq

At least none of us have admitted it! LOL

Man Burns Down House Over Action Figures

A 29-year-old man, Yoshifumi Takabe, was arrested for burning down his house after his mother threw away his Gundam action figures, according to various reports.

According to a story by The Escapist, factory worker Yoshifumi Takabe, 29, doused his room with kerosene and set it on fire in a suicide attempt. Takabe, who shared the home in Kobe, Japan with his mother, was distraught after learning that she threw out the "valuable" Gundam anime/manga models. His mother was in the house at the time, the story said, but neither of them were hurt. The house, however, burned down to the ground.

initialD

Shogun Warriors are SWEET!!!

I feel his pain!!

Thank god mom never touched any of my crap

HAHAHAHA too funny!

IchiroDeported

My Mom made me keep all my toys :0) and the accessories. she was a wise woman!

storm888

Many folks in Japan take their collectibles VERY seriously.

84Mattingly

Over the past few weeks I have raided the parent's attic to grab my "vintage toys". I have a lot of transformers/GI Joe to go through. Thank god my Dad grew up during the Depression and made me save some of my boxes

Dboneesq

I guess what it comes down to is this: You touch this I burn down your friggin house!

storm888

"I guess what it comes down to is this: You touch this I burn down your house!"

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In this kind of circumstance, I have found that causality is seldom directly
related to the act that immediately precedes the presumed effect.

Clearly, the arsonist was pist at his mother BEFORE she tossed his stuff.

Japanese Nationals that live at their parents' home until they are 30 often have
some psychological baggage that even the famous "mama's boys" of Italy don't
have.

strangecreature

I had an uncle who used to talk about how my grandmother threw away all his baseball cards from the 50's, that included some Mickey Mantles'. He would get very angry just talking about it and it hapenned decades ago.

jerster

Give me back my stapler...

csmtampa

hahahahaha

nightcrawler

I guess I shouldn't feel so bad about my Mom giving away my Mechano and Lego collection. Lucky for me I never did have any good cards as a kid.

1989FleerBillRipkencollector

I'll be keeping alot of my boys toys for them. I look forward to them asking, "Dad, do you still have my old toys?".

Pathetic he did that.

rbdjr1

Some years ago, I would go to all the yard sales, that offered cards for sale.

One early weekend morning, took a ride to a yard sale, and in the garage was box after box of mostly star and rookie cards. I asked the lady if these were her cards, and she said they belonged to her son, who was away at college.

each card was meticulously sleeved and priced (marked $1 to $5) (as if they were going to be sold at a card show).

I told the lady, there was little chance of anyone buying these cards, other than maybe someone looking through a box or two and buying a card or two for a dollar or so! (She would need "50 yard sales" to sell all those cards! LOL!)

My suggestion was to let me buy all the boxes of cards for a flat rate of $100 if she could use the money? I told her it was a pain in the arse just to load all those boxes in my car, and it might take me forever to sell those cards. Otherwise I mentioned you will have to bring all those boxes back to your son's room again! (And I knew she didn't like that idea!).

So she sold them to me. I'm sure her son was pissed-off when he found out all his cards were sold by mom!

I still have not touched those boxes after all these years, so I guess I'm out that $100 Maybe that kid and his mom got the last laugh?


Not!


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P.S. At least mom didn't throw them out! (And the house was never burned down! I wonder if mom ever gave her son that $100?)

itzagoner

it's a conspiracy.....all collector geeks moms and dads know that if you reduce the availability of said items, your own stuff becomes more valuable.