Awesomely Bad Views – Weird Night at Walmart . . .

I actually meant to write this a few days ago.  I was at Walmart, and I got the hankering for something other than Topps ’52.  So I started looking at the packs of some of the loose packs to see what the odds were in hitting nice pulls.  The first pack I picked up, I saw that the back (towards the bottom) of the pack was slightly cut, I would have missed it if I weren’t stretching out the back of the pack to read the fine print.  At first I shrugged it off, then I picked up another and the same cut was in the same place, i started picking them up by the tens, some had the cut and some had the entire bottom slit open. I went to get a security guard and let them know about the situation.  They started looking at every pack in the area and I’d have to say that nearly 75% of their sports stock had been removed.  The only things untouched I could see was the bubble packs.  I’m thinking that this pack searching has gone to a whole new level and for those of you that head for the card corner in Walmart, buyer beware.  Look for small incisions at the bottom and top of the packs.  People are getting a lot more brazen now with their efforts to search cards.  In the end if the packs are not in bubble packs, then just forget about them, assume they have been searched and you are going to get crap.  Oh by the way, that night I bought a bubble pack of Topps ’52 (I know, I can’t help myself) and pulled a Troy Tulowitzki chrome refractor!  Pays to get the bubblers.