If You’re Losing “Hundreds Of Dollars” On A Stupid Carnival Game Then You Deserve All The Lazer Tag You Can Possibly Tolerate
Interesting reframing of the charms of old Coney Island:
Posted: April 20th, 2012 | Filed under: Brooklyn, Follow The MoneyThe city is finally cleaning up a longtime seedy strip near the Coney Island boardwalk that had been filled with rigged carnival games and ripped off beachgoers for years.
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Upon receiving various complaints late last year, the city cleared out the old-school carnival games — including one booth called “Gangster Cigars” that was caught ripping customers off on a hidden camera by Arnold Diaz of Fox NY’s “Shame on You.”
Patrons would routinely lose hundreds of dollars trying to toss a rigged ping-pong ball through a hole to win a flat-screen TV.