The Terrorists Have Won

Rish likes to use that phrase as his joking response when someone talks about a problem in society...and there's a lot of problems in society today. This is a problem that happens only among toy collectors particularly, but a symptom of a more widespread problem in society at large. Check this out:

The Vintage Collection came out with a new stormtrooper figure recently. It's a new version that looks amazing and is more poseable than things we've had before. Except, the figure on this card that I found at Walmart recently ain't it.

That's what's supposed to be in that package. What you saw above, therefore, was what we call a swap. Somebody came in, bought the stormtrooper, went home and removed the new one from the package, swapped it out for an old crappy, worthless stormtrooper, sealed the package back up, and returned it to get their full money back. So, in essence, they stole the figure.

What's sad is that these people are obviously collectors of toys. They know what happens to toy lines that don't have good enough sales. They get cancelled and go away. Yet, they'd rather screw everyone and get their collection for free. It's not like there's any need behind this. These are friggin adult toy collectors carrying this crap out, not a father stealing a loaf of bread to feed his children. It's big time dishonesty and lack of respect for the rest of society, and it really makes me sad, but even more so it makes me fear for the future.

I find something like this at a store all the time. It's incredibly common. How much longer can our society maintain cohesion when this is what it is? Get ready for real life stormtroopers to come our way someday soon folks. The terrorists have won.