Aside from being an illegal chance-based game, it teaches kids how much fun it is to wager bets several years before they can gamble legally. Get one nights sleep and start setting up in the morning. Assisting the NBCs Today show (and reimbursed for expenses) as their police carnival games expert, I was assigned by Thomas to investigate Michigan carnivals and especially the games at the 2012 Arab Festival, which draws about 300,000 patrons. CBS News exposed a carnival company which was cheating soldiers and their families out of money at the 2011 Fourth of July Freedom Fest at Fort Hood, Texas, the largest military base in the country. I typed out my detailed fraud/gambling complaint for Richardson and provided him with a copy of the Michigan Carnival Games Manual. Well I dont think theyre shady as much as they simply look like they have come from extremely impoverished environments, or have led very harsh lives given the state of their average dental health, and their overall haggard look. Huston, vice president of Operations at Pugh Shows at the time, was present when Argo was arrested. Carnival life in 2023 is mostly different than the old days, but in a few ways its the same. "For someone who has been convicted, served his time and is now released and rehabilitated, they have a right to work as well.". While planning for a San Antonio, Texas, state fair, Wade Shows carnival owner Frank Zaitshik stated that it costs him $100,000 to hire off-duty police officers. Some of the cash generated from Franks games should easily cover the overtime pay for carny-cops and perhaps some gratuity items such as free corn-dogs and Winnie the Pooh bears. Your child could be getting on a ride that is run by Charles Manson. Pusser ultimately survived the attack, but his wife Pauline was killed. Civilized folks are always suspicious of transients, and it goes back a lot further than Gypsies. Pete Halat, Kirksey McCord Nixs former lawyer who once served as the mayor of Biloxi. The assailants who were masked and armed ambushed the camp and used chains and padlocks to restrain their victims. They will always refer to any bad guys as independent contractors and not employees of the carnival even when they are paying the carnival owner for the privilege of occupying cheating space. Im more afraid of the patrons than the carnies. Six flags is much better and safer. It should be standard procedure throughout the U.S. for all police departments to require officers to complete written reports on all midway game complaints, with case numbers issued to complainants and victims. Therefore theres a psychological disconnect created by the incongruity of the bright flashy lights and colorful displays and cheesy music and rides, and the down-trodden, rough-necked cigarette smoking laborers who set it all up and keep it running. I disagree. Willie Lovett was the longtime chief of police of the Savannah Chatham, Georgia, Metro Police Department. During my 30-40 minute survey for Thomas, I counted 166 attempts by hoodwinked teens at $2 a shot. Yeah, it was a great movie, but I dont get the connection to carnies. Gummo was about white trash in a small dirt-poor town. It's definitely not the mall parking lot show that most think of when you hear "carnival." William A. Riedthaler, renowned games enforcement expert, informed me that the total figure might be as high as $40 billion. Step right on up! I was a carnie for a summer. He has since risen to the pinnacle of the carnival world with his rigged games, his cash, his protectors, and his friends in high places. Watch Gummo. No rigged games, daily ride inspections, and regular and random drug testing andbackground checksgo a long way towardcleaning up the carnie image. (AP) Three carnival workers have been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Kansas fair whose bodies were Most carnies are just people with nowhere else to go - usually no family to speak of orskills to get them a career. For example, this letter - from someone actually defending carnies and who says theyre much-maligned and decent people, acknowledges obviously rigged games as a given. It is not uncommon for sheriffs or police chiefs to lend themselves to sizable remunerations to ensure that these affable outlaws operate on trouble-free turf. Every carnival game designed has the potential to be rigged. With a greater number of gambling and crooked games, the carnival owner will increase his undivided claim to the unshared game loot. But despite the massive crackdown on former members that followed, many believe that the group is still secretly active today. The carnival industrys sleazy image is in dire need of a facelift. Michael L. Cella was convicted of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and sentenced to 3 years in prison for fondling the children while strapping them in for rides. Gaffed and chance-based games travel to thousands of carnival lots and fairs each year, raking in billions of dollars in ill-gotten gains with virtual impunity. It goes back to the Nomads versus the Egypt, Rome versus the Barbarians. A lot of money came flowing in, said retired FBI Special Agent Keith Bell. I had observed the tub agent cheating the youngster with a deep-rooted bait-and-switch, shenanigan, called the deadening-ball trick, a slick maneuver to covertly conceal a gaff ball at the bottom of the angled tub prior to his demonstration. A prime example is the Chief Willie Lovett case. In Scotland they are simply known as "'''Travellers'''" ( not to be confused with Irish travellers or Gypsies) . They never went anywhere and interacted at least occasionally with normal society. I estimated that the 12 innocent-looking basketball games alone accounted for $25,000 in 2012, based on the numbers of neighborhood kids trying their luck endlessly for four days. Pleeeeease! In the 1960s, the Dixie Mafia emerged as a loose confederation of crooks and con artists based in Biloxi, Mississippi. The long hours of travel, erection (no pun intended, as I cant even imaging a Carny getting a hard-on with all the Meth in thier system) and tear-down of the carnival are custom-made for Meth abuse and Nut-jobs. On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the citys firefighters. Most a are White, with 66.4% of Carnival Workers belonging to this ethnicity. One month later, on October 1, 2002, Frank contributed $10,000 to the Republican Party of Florida Federal Campaign Account as Jeb Bush was running for reelection to governor of Florida. Getty ImagesBuford Pusser supposedly took out several members of the Dixie Mafia to avenge his wifes death. Certain totals correspond to successful yardage gains printed on the perplexing conversion chart. A continuing criminal enterprise is an example of organized crime. Yeah, maybe. With the recent publicity on the ills of Tubs of Fun, chances are that the carnies will re-package the scam with a different look until the heat dies down; perhaps bring back the old wooden bushel-baskets instead of plastic laundry tubs and eliminate the deadening ball for one year. This is the little-known story of the Cornbread Cosa Nostra.. The last two victims also withdrew money from the ATM. Carnival game players lose 95 percent of the time says a carnival game enforcement specialist, Corporal Glenn Hester of the Glynn County Police Department of Brunswick, Georgia. There are no exemptions for carnival zones. She cleaned and closed up the pie stand, only to stay up into the wee hours counting money and balancing all of the cash registers' records, snatch a couple hourssleep, and get up early enough to set everything up and restock before the fair opened the next morning. By maintaining two sets of books, the carnival can cheat the charity out of a large amount of revenue for their purposes.. Oct 21, 2022 / Comments Off on Chiefs, Criminals, & Carnival Workers: A Brief History of Tattoo with Adam Romano Comments This short lecture shares the story As for the coworkers I got along with, I never asked them about their criminal background, so I couldnt tell you. Risky Rides: Carnival Workers' Grueling Hours May Threaten Safety. Burbank's policy--like other municipalities'--has no teeth because it cannot stop someone with a criminal history from working at a carnival, said lawmakers and law enforcement officials advocating stronger legislation. Basically, sedentary people dont like transient people. What level of education is required for Carnival Workers? At three events checked this summer by the attorney general and sheriff's offices, no background problems were discovered. Although there have been several complaints about gambling and rigged games at the Arab festivals, they have never been investigated by police. Ward Hall? It's the exact opposite of what most folks describe. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. Step right up! Thomas did not get the opportunity to measure the elliptical rims as hoped. Step right up to the king of all carnival rip-offs, Razzle Dazzle, which searches for and destroys its prey. They primarily operated in Biloxi, Mississippi, but the groups reach soon stretched from Atlanta, Georgia to Tulsa, Oklahoma. "For small fairs, it's very hard to even have a carnival," Ostermeier said. As reported in the Savannah Morning News, the government contended Lovett and Randall Roach (Magic Midway carnival owner) schemed from 2004 until September 27, 2013, when Lovett retired. Not to say that all carnies are no-goodniks, but I think theres enough evidence and history to see where the reputation comes from. Heres my take on it - it isnt that theyre any different than anyone else in a highly-transient, blue collar labor force, its just that theyre the only ones in such a position who come into contact with average families and kids in a situation where theyre ostensibly supposed to be having fun and the environment is supposed to be happy and jolly. The festival officials did not like my presence (which is normal), so they called police about me. Its a fundamental divide in human society, and the sedentary city-folks have mostly won. You have to be clean-shaven, no tattoos (if you do, you have tocover them), and wear clean uniforms. After the mob apparently ordered a hit on the judge, Sherry and his wife were murdered in their Mississippi home in 1987. They collected roughly $12,000, although the victims may have underreported the theft to avoid tax troubles. Authorities initially speculated that the gang members had killed McDaniel because they were afraid that he was an informant, but others suspected that he was actually taken out by Pusser. A 9-day North Carolina State Fair has grossed $9 million for the state. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. These small carnys get seedier every year. The gang then broke into 10 trailers in search of valuables and cash. If you were one of the players lucky enough to have your money on that color at 32-to-1 odds against, you would win a stuffed animal. YouTubePete Halat, Kirksey McCord Nixs former lawyer who once served as the mayor of Biloxi. We have a lot of interesting family friends from the fair business. They dont have ties in the community. Other towns, such as Naperville, hosting its Last Fling last weekend, rely on the carnival companies' honesty to check if sex offenders are working in the midst of children. He would work hard when he worked, but then would go on benders. They live on the road throughout the summerand fall, setting up and tearing down rides, or hosting games to bilk people out of their money (unless you know the secrets to beating their tricks). Carol Stream has one of the stronger local ordinances, barring felons convicted in the past five years from working as carnival employees. He agrees with legislators pushing a law requiring background checks but wants to make sure the carnival industry has input, specifically regarding who will pay for the checks. Justice on Fire is OConnors detailed account of the terrible explosion that led to the firefighters deaths and the terrible injustice that followed. Go to work at 6 am;go to bed at 2 am the next day. In 1967, McNairy County Sheriff Buford Pusser and his wife were attacked in Tennessee likely in retaliation for Pussers crackdown on the Dixie Mafia. He would come up to my Moms (his sisters) house and stay while he would talk to the lawyers and go to court and stuff. For 15 years, his city has required carnival companies to submit employees' names--since a 10-year-old boy was sexually molested by a carnival worker who had just been released from prison for a similar offense. Along with other costs, in most cases, a contracted carnival owner pays the contract fee, (around $1million), in advance of a long-running state fair. It usually takes zero years This particular con links fraud and gambling together with a smooth-talking con artist (agent) who bedazzles his mark, and wins every time. American slang term for carnival employee, This article is about carnival employees and carnival slang. He died broke shortly thereafter. Well, up until this year the State Fair would hire a lot of day workers from the local homeless population. Federal law enforcement needs to pay attention to the probability of tax evasion, likely involving many millions of dollars annually, as well as checking for gambling equipment-trailers rolling across state lines in violation of the Johnson Act (Interstate transportation of gambling equipment). The fair is an extension of her; it is her identity and passion. But it was getting harder and harder to make money, with each fairground becoming more of a bureaucratic morass every year. WebEffective January 1, 2008, no person, firm, corporation, or other entity that owns or operates a carnival or fair shall employ a carnival worker who: has been convicted of any offense set forth in Article 11 of the Criminal Code of 1961, Is a registered sex offender, as defined in the Sex Offender Registration Act, or The same carny-cops (police officers patrolling the midway), and the same returning interstate carny-outlaws appear to be working in concert for income at annual extravaganzas.This, combined with the hoodwink nods from corrupt public servants, seems to be the big American secret at fairs and festivals. Im not a betting man, but I am willing to lay heavy odds that federal law enforcement will make carnival racketeering a higher priority once they acknowledge all the components. I completed a larceny report for Steve, who told about the carnival patch and offered to lend me the book by John Scarne entitled Scarnes New Complete Guide to Gambling.Scarne writes that the patch is a carnival front man who squares complaints with players and police. The patch, who is sometimes a lawyer (in carnival terms the mender or fixer), collects patch money from crooked game agents who pay him to bribe police or to patch up any problems with wiped out sore losers. The patch may arrive in advance of the carnival to make friends and deals. NAME and Co CEO, Danny R. Huston, can gross $200,000 over the weekend and pay the sponsor one-quarter of the gross or about $50,000 for the privilege of servicing unprotected patrons. NBC producer Sandra Thomass Today show and Dateline features used several hidden cameras at NAMEs carnivals in June, 2012, and were able to capture on film and describe the agents cheating deadening ball maneuver during both NBC 2012 exposs narrated by NBCs national correspondent Jeff Rossen, entitled Rossen Reports: Are carnival games cheating you - and your kids?". Marcello, one of the most powerful leaders in organized crime in America, operated in New Orleans around the same time that the Dixie Mafia was coming to power. Either way, you can generally find them within a few miles of where they need to show up for work the next day. Federal indictments involving four members of La Cosa Nostra in the carnival rackets resulted in convictions in 2013. Not an easy life. The carny vocabulary is traditionally part of carnival cant, a secret language. Heres my take on it - it isnt that theyre any different than anyone else in a highly-transient, blue collar labor force, its just that theyre the only ones in such a position who come into contact with average families and kids in a situation where theyre ostensibly supposed to be having fun and the environment is supposed to be happy and jolly. In my view, what Deputy Chief Dennis Richardson did isnt much different from what disgraced former Chief Willie Lovett did for nine years: Conspiracy to obstruct enforcement of criminal laws. (Lovett probably tossed every Razzle and hoop complaint at all his cheating carnivals.). Commit a petty crime in every town they go thru. In an attempt to skirt responsibility for the crooks in question, playing their crooked games, Century 21 Shows manager Jeremy Bendsons acted innocent when questioned by the reporter while playing the customary independent contractor card. Really scary people, actually. Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local police departments allow carnival lots to be free crime zones for illegal gambling, larceny, and fraud. Convicted of bank loan schemes in 1986 and never spending a day in prison, the Gregorys befriended Tony Rodham, brother of President Bill Clintons wife, and now presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and were awarded the contracts to operate his carnival, In 2008, campaign finance records show that Frank contributed to the following U.S. Congressional candidates: Joe Baca, Brian Bilbray, Gerry Connolly, Jim Costa, Randy Forbes, Zoe Lofgren, Mike Pence, Dennis Rehberg, and, In my early years as a police officer of the Dearborn Police Department and working the information desk, a man named Steve Nowosielski walked in to complain that carnival employees were stealing from the patrons with Razzle at the city carnival only 100 yards from the police station. What the Greatest Showman Got Totally Wrong, The Bittersweet Story of Jumbo the Elephant, Carnival Workers Describe What The Life Is Really Like. In 2004, four off-duty cops in New Orleans were implicated, with one of them federally indicted, for a charge related to conspiracy to protect and profit from a Razzle business during the carnival season. Aside from forming alliances with some members of law enforcement, the Dixie Mafia also worked alongside fellow mobsters. With 80 yards and only having to spend $2, the mark, psyched because of such good luck, is eager to buy more spills. Argo was arrested on May 5, 2001 in the City of Taylor, Michigan, for operating fraudulent gambling machines. He was an alcoholic. It was a crime spree that spanned four generations and crossed multiple states from Texas to Oregon, beginning in the early 1920s with ancestors who were Not only were you most likely cheated, but your police department was likely not interested in protecting you from professional lawbreakers. The ball crazily bounces and rolls until it comes to rest on one of the 96 holes. Drupal theme by ThemeSnap.com, Carnival racketeering is endemic throughout the United State and has been for years. Few cities have ordinances that require background checks. He placed ads in gay publications posing as a young stud named Eddie Johnson to attract correspondence from unsuspecting readers. He finally got his settlement, and actually gave my Mom and Dad some money for their trouble. A loud bell should sound when it is known that itinerant serial criminals are targeting members of the U.S. military and children with impunity. I pointed Thomas in the direction of a carnival supply company where she could purchase the rim, which she acquired in time for the feature. Some of them love their job;some dislike it and do it to get by. I will usually see three to eight tubs on every midway of Wade Shows and North American Midway Entertainment. All players lay a bet down on a color and only one of the players throws a rubbery ball in a bin of 96 colored holes. It was a really good business for a long time, though. We have a full drug testing center on-site. Carnival life is its own world, detached from mainstream lifestyles. The law dictates that police officers are required to take enforcement action when criminal activity is observed or reported. Theyre Other, therefore theyre not to be trusted. Also zeroed in as targets, are members of the U.S. military. As part of a self-serving marketing ploy, some carnival owners publicize their plans to make donations to local charities, in an attempt to present themselves as compassionate people in order to gain respect and support of citizens they plan to flimflam. Instead, the Dixie Mafia was a rag-tag band of crooks who were willing to do just about any crime if there was money involved. In my early years as a police officer of the Dearborn Police Department and working the information desk, a man named Steve Nowosielski walked in to complain that carnival employees were stealing from the patrons with Razzle at the city carnival only 100 yards from the police station. Frank has carnival contracts there as well. Carnys got nothin! It was adopted after a stabbing by a carnival worker in 2001. About 40 percent of adults with gambling problems started gambling before age 17. Frank had been granted state fair contracts in Michigan and Florida over the previous 25 years. In the Play Football eight-marble version of Razzle, the mark agrees to use a free pass, then spills eight marbles on a board containing 143 numbered holes with values from one through six assigned to each hole. Also available from Amazon, With the purpose of writing about true crime in an authoritative, fact-based manner, veteran journalists J. J. Maloney and J. Patrick OConnor launched Crime Magazine in November of 1998. By the time all is said and done, it's usually about a 20- to 24-hour shift of hard physical labor, depending on how smoothly things go. The sheriffs revenge story was later depicted in the 1973 film Walking Tall. That occurred even though state police checked carnival workers' backgrounds. Most carnival game agents, these days, would rather design and display attractive child-luring games that would serve to mark thousands of young teens for their allowance or grass-cutting money. Cops taking the bribes are also in violation of RICO and similar state statutes. Thomass U.S. Army Special Forces sniper, who could take out the enemy at 200 yards with one shot, was unable to Shoot out the Star from the distance of 12 feet with 100 shots. Get up to work twelve hour days for the next two weeks or so, then work a twelve hour day, take down your ride, show, what have you and drive it to the next spot, without sleep, usually a few hundred miles away. For a carnival owner or manager to deny responsibility is like saying I didnt run you over, my car did! When it comes to interviews, carnival owners and managers will act outraged while feigning ignorance about the rigged game and its perpetrator. On Sunday, prosecutors said someone driving through Almeda Malls parking lot became the victim of a hate crime when he was attacked by a group of carnival workers. As for my petty crime, I smoked a lot of pot. Now, lets go back to the first question: Have you ever played a carnival game and felt cheated? 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