Is breaking stuff out of grading cases illegal?

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Posted By: Anonymous

This many sound silly but I was just wondering. If it is legal, are there any methods?

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Posted By: Lee Behrens

If it is Julie would have alot of prison time racked up.

Seriously, It is your card do what you would like, if you want to put in the spokes of your bike go ahead.

Lee

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Posted By: jay behrens

It's getting harder and harder to find good, crisp vintage cards that make a good engine noise in your spokes. So many of them have become soft and don't make much noise in the spokes.

So what would make a better sound, a 4BH Kelley or a Just So Young?
Jay

My place is full of valuable, worthless junk.

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Posted By: Josh K.

Yes, its completely illegal - its called breaking and entering. Its the same principal that applies when you bring something new home that you just bought from the store - cant open up that stuff either.

here's an article how to do it.

http://www.brucemo.com/cards/articles/deslab.htm

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Posted By: pete

maybe if it wasnt your card...

taking a bat to your '65 mustang for 40 mins is perfectlly legal (stupid but legal)....taking a bat to your neighbor's '65 mustang for 40 mins is a felony
its your card, break it open!
pete-

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Posted By: tbob

I know people who won't tear the tags off their mattresses because of the warning stating that removal is a violation of the law. I guess they think the mattress police will come to their homes and arrest them!

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Posted By: pete

i once broke into my own house late one night when i forgot my key....i was promptly subdued and interrogated by my wife, i mean ex-wife
pete-

what are the stats on people being injured or killed trying to pry open a graded case, anyone know?

i wonder if its higher than people being injured or killed by removing the bag from their mattress.

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Posted By: Julie

PSA 6 N162 Kelly; GAI 2 Old Judge Gleason;
PSA 5 T206 Pattee; N162 PSA 6 Brouthers; SGC 80 T202 "Birmingham Gets to Third" (Johnson); PSA 8'49 Doby (don't do that...)
and about 15 more...all cracked out.

Don't buy a high grade card and crack it out (as i did with the Doby); the corners are still sharp, but I'd have to get it re-graded to realize what I paid for it.

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Posted By: warshawlaw

I imagine a lot of people are injured or killed that way--or at least have to give away half of everything they own

You've been a great audience, enjoy Supertramp!

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Posted By: Lentel

I have used a table mounted band saw for making fine cuts in wood. The teeth are very small and it will cut the edges off the slabs very clean and easy. The top just lifts right off no fuss no muss

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Posted By: pete

i was thinking of a bandsaw, very tiny teeth...but the heat may "melt" the plastic together again...it happens when cutting plexi-glass a lot.
pete-

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Posted By: BcD