They fell prey to the sucker side.
This week, two nerdy burglars were arrested for suspected theft robbing a comic book store in Tennessee of thousands of dollars worth of Magic: The Gathering cards while wearing low-quality Halloween masks.
The delinquent duo allegedly broke into Grand Adventures Comic and Games in Murfreesboro on Tuesday and made off with an estimated $8,000 worth of collectible cardboard playing cards, according to investigators.
Surveillance video shows a man wearing a nun’s mask and habit – in the style of the heist movie “The city” – and the other wore what appears to be a Michael Meyers mask.
Their disguises didn’t keep the police off their trail for too long.
Philip Clodfelter, 42, and Kelly Garner, 64, were arrested after police pulled over their car for erratic driving.
According to the Musfreeboro Police Department, an officer immediately recognized the masks and said the Magic: the Gathering cards were in plain view inside the vehicle.
According to police, Clodfelter and Garner also tried to break into another store — Grand Slam Collectibles — that same evening but were unable to get in.
According to Musfreeboro detectives, the pair are now suspected of committing similar burglaries at strip malls in Brentwood and Nashville.
They are all being held on a $48,000 bond at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center.
They face multiple charges, including burglary, theft and vandalism.
That was the case earlier this summer revealed on “Fox & Friends” that Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance was an avid Magic: The Gathering player — his wife called it the dumbest thing about the Ohio senator.
Vance said in an August interview that he stopped playing when he was younger.
He told “Semafor”“The big problem with going from a 13-year-old who likes Magic: the Gathering to a 15-year-old who likes Magic: the Gathering is that 15-year-old girls don’t like Magic: the Gathering.”
“So I dropped it like a bad habit,” Vance added.
