August24
Crooked Carnival Games
This story on ABC news in the US looks at carnival games, sending a sharpshooter to try and win the shooting gallery.
He doesn’t and the reporter implies the game is fixed.
What you have here is a classic ‘alibi store’ - a game of skill that is almost impossible. The flatty can demonstrate the game is possible but the mark has little chance of winning.
So how to beat the shooting gallery?
In this game, the mark has to shoot out a star in a piece of paper. If there is even the smallest piece of star remaining, the mark doesn’t win a prize.
The key to winning is to shoot around the star and not through the middle.
It’s pretty unfair to accuse the carnival workers of being cheating and putting them next to crooked con artists.
The vieo is no longer available
Fixed!
Google: “US Troops cheated out of money at carnival - CBS News”
Centruy 21 Shows scammed U. S. military men and their families going to and returning from combat at a private carnival. In the U. S., traveling carnival owners pay off politicians so that they can scam festival-goers. carnival police will not do a thing becasue their bosses are also on the take. In this particular case, U. S. tax payers foot the bill and the government allowed Century 21 Shows to freely rip off citizens with no consequences following the CBS undercover exposure. Carnival games are a $10,000,000,000 hoodwink racket in the U. S. It is organized crime on American midways and no one will do a thing about it. U. S. Congressman are in the pockets of crooked carnival owners in return for protection. Only in America.
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