A group of Singaporean adolescents has successfully traded their entire adult lives for a handful of shiny cardboard illustrations depicting fictional pirates.

The ambitious trio decided that a five-year stint in Changi and several rhythmic applications of the rotan was a reasonable market value for a rare Monkey D. Luffy card.

Police intercepted the aspiring buccaneers just sixteen hours after they ambushed a 34-year-old man who really should have been reconsidering his life choices instead of meeting teenagers at 1 am to trade cartoon scraps.

“Liddat also can? Go jail because of anime card, so bodoh one,” remarked a confused neighbour.

“Uncle also same, thirty-plus already still playing cards in the middle of the night, then kena whacked by small boys.”