It Is the Year 2026, and a 72-Year-Old Man Was Just Convicted of GPS Stalking a Pokémon Card Delivery Driver
Old people have been engaging in wild Pokémon-related hijinks as of late, which is not a sentence I expected to be typing in the year of our lord 2026. But the 30th anniversary card set released this month has sent both fans and scalpers of all ages into a frenzy, and outlets around the world have been reporting fistfights, mail theft, and all manner of other unedifying behavior amongst those trying to get their hands on the new release. Even by the standards of the last couple of months, a story that broke this week about one Kent Kubasta of Wooster, Ohio, stands out.
- ▪Old people have been engaging in wild Pokémon-related hijinks as of late, which is not a sentence I expected to be typing in the year of our lord 2026.
- ▪But the 30th anniversary card set released this month has sent both fans and scalpers of all ages into a frenzy, and outlets around the world have been reporting fistfights, mail theft, and all manner of other unedifying behavior amongst th
- ▪Even by the standards of the last couple of months, a story that broke this week about one Kent Kubasta of Wooster, Ohio, stands out.
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| Publication time | Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:40:13 +0000 |
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Old people have been engaging in wild Pokémon-related hijinks as of late, which is not a sentence I expected to be typing in the year of our lord 2026. But the 30th anniversary card set released this month has sent both fans and scalpers of all ages into a frenzy, and outlets around the world have been reporting fistfights, mail theft, and all manner of other unedifying behavior amongst those trying to get their hands on the new release. Even by the standards of the last couple of months, a story that broke this week about one Kent Kubasta of Wooster, Ohio, stands out. First, the facts: Kubasta was convicted of placing an illegal GPS tracker on a delivery driver’s van so that he could track when and where said driver was making deliveries of Pokémon cards.
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