[Al C.risafulli]

I've been watching these threads for a couple of days now, and after reading all this, here's my opinion:

1) I don't recall there being any broken English on T206museum.com. Perhaps I'm mistaken, but the person who wrote that website seemed to write fairly well. Perhaps Mr. Chan should have used his copy editor prior to starting this thread.

2) Anyone who deliberately tries to dupe a grading company with a homemade Franken-card is not helping the hobby. Anyone who tries to do that is an ass.

3) Mr. Chan doesn't belong in jail, but that's only because he got caught too soon. That card would have been sold in REA if it wasn't discovered first - not because it made REA more "complete" but because it was an opportunity for Mr. Chan to make some cash.

4) If you can fool a grading company or an auction house with a phony overprint or underprint or error card or variation, that doesn't impress me. At all. And it doesn't cause me to lose faith in the grading companies, either. All it does is show me you're an ass.

It reminds me of the idiots who try and sneak a knife past airport security, then go on the news to tell everyone how they did it. Want to help airport security? Look for suspicious behavior, be quiet, do the things you're supposed to do, behave. Want to be an ass? Smuggle a knife in your carry-on and then crow about how bad airport security is. They may not be 100% foolproof, but they're keeping you much safer than you'd be if they weren't there, and all your ridiculous yammering is just putting ideas in other people's heads. I can understand the desire to want to fly safely, but there are more effective ways of helping than by trying to make them look incompetent.

Guys like Wonka are more helpful to the hobby than armchair scientists like Mr. Chan could ever hope to be.

-Al