One of the metro's only remaining sports-card stores is recovering after a burglar got away with thousands of dollars worth of baseball cards.Collectible cards of an all-star lineup were stolen from Chuck's Sports Cards Plus Saturday."He just went in with his hand and tried to sweep it into something,” said store owner Chuck Colbert.Witnesses reported a man kicking at the front door of the shop around 5 p.m. Saturday. The man eventually had to pry the door open."Depressing that you know, you work and work and work and then these bums out there are just too lazy to work or too high on drugs that they’d rather steal off you than actually go out and get a job,” said Colbert.Colbert believes the thief scoped out his shop before the break-in, targeting high-dollar cards. He estimates around 200 cards valued up to $10,000 were stolen in a matter of minutes."It’s probably going to be a three or four day process (to) try to remember what’s what,” said Colbert.Kelly is a longtime collector who shops at Chuck's."I have probably about 35 to 40 million cards in storage in Columbus, Nebraska,” said Kelly.He asked not to have his full name used for fear that thieves will target his extensive collection of high-priced cards."When people steal stuff like that it does hurt a business,” said Kelly. “Whether it’s one card for $100 or one card for ten or twenty thousand dollars, it doesn’t matter the value. It’s the idea. People just need to quit.”

One of the metro's only remaining sports-card stores is recovering after a burglar got away with thousands of dollars worth of baseball cards.



Collectible cards of an all-star lineup were stolen from Chuck's Sports Cards Plus Saturday.



"He just went in with his hand and tried to sweep it into something,” said store owner Chuck Colbert.




Witnesses reported a man kicking at the front door of the shop around 5 p.m. Saturday. The man eventually had to pry the door open.



"Depressing that you know, you work and work and work and then these bums out there are just too lazy to work or too high on drugs that they’d rather steal off you than actually go out and get a job,” said Colbert.



Colbert believes the thief scoped out his shop before the break-in, targeting high-dollar cards.

He estimates around 200 cards valued up to $10,000 were stolen in a matter of minutes.



"It’s probably going to be a three or four day process (to) try to remember what’s what,” said Colbert.



Kelly is a longtime collector who shops at Chuck's.



"I have probably about 35 to 40 million cards in storage in Columbus, Nebraska,” said Kelly.



He asked not to have his full name used for fear that thieves will target his extensive collection of high-priced cards.



"When people steal stuff like that it does hurt a business,” said Kelly. “Whether it’s one card for $100 or one card for ten or twenty thousand dollars, it doesn’t matter the value. It’s the idea. People just need to quit.”



