Most of the employees are actually nice people, but for many of them, it is almost a job of last resort. They never went anywhere and interacted at least occasionally with normal society. This is an ideal way for owners to feel they bought and own the loyalty of cops on their midways. Hey! With the corrupt fail-safe protection system in place, carny-owners dont have to worry about their lawbreakers ever having to face criminal charges. I worked the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul last year and was averaging over $30 per hour - cash, no taxes - which was phenomenal. But for veteran crime writer and crusading editor J. Patrick OConnor, the factsor a lack of themdidnt add up. I've traveled and worked on four or fiveshows of various sizes, mainly in the Midwest and Northeast. Step right on up! (Source: National Council on Problem Gambling NCPG). Dang, and I bet the smile you give wouldve made me buy more of whatever you were selling. 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. I informed her that the gaffed carnival basketball rims are not bent by the carnies, but manufactured for the carnies, and for the designed purpose of creating a false impression of size and shape. Nixs former lawyer Pete Halat, who later became mayor of Biloxi, blamed the missing money on his former law firm partner Vincent Sherry, who was then a judge of the Second Mississippi District Circuit Court. The flatty again uses two hands to slyly pick up the marbles and announces another false fairbank number 11, which corresponds to 30 more yards on the chart. That could be anybody. Several scout-cars responded and one bully-type sergeant threatened to arrest me. For me, it's more of a family tradition, and I also can't stand staying in one place too long. As for the OP, I second WhyNot. A wheel of fortune, seen at a nonprofit fundraiser is an example of a legal form of gambling. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. So, the grifter swiftly adds up the total with sleight of hand (two hands at a time), and announces a false (fairbank) number, 44, which corresponds to 50 yards on the puzzling conversion chart. As part of my research for the Today feature, each morning before the 2012 Arab Festival carnival opened, I measured the basketball rims and found, pretty much, what I had expected. Testimony was that Roach paid Lovett for protection from police while Roach cheated customers through such games as Razzle Dazzle also known as Razzle, which gave players no chance to win. Lovett was also fined $50,000. As reported in the. In the subsequent years, three suspects (not including Nix), suffered mysterious deaths that may have been caused by Pusser. Prior to that episode, Frank was arrested, convicted and fined in Waterford, Michigan (1974), for running an illegal carnival game. OK, you GOTTA give us details! 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.). I did grounds crew and stage setup for county fairs for a summer after high school. It was a clear case of arson, and five people from Marlborough were duly convicted of the crime. 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. 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. This mirror serves the rich and powerful while it shapes a negative and distorted view of the poor minority. In 2003, Frank popped for another $5,000 for the campaign of New Mexico Democrat governor-elect, Bill Richardson. Its what linguists call a cant which is their term for a private language. Knowing I was on firm ground, and having experienced a pattern of these intimidation tactics, arrest threats, and failed defamation suits on other occasions, I was wondering if these irritated cops wouldnt chance trumping up an arrest with creative writing. NAME actually had company shirts available for their carny-cops, stating SECURITY., While working the security detail on that NAME midway, are the Joliet cops supposed to protect and serve carnival-goers, or just the carnies? But he apparently believed that if he had enough money, hed be able to get out of prison. "I hope we get through this without somebody being killed or getting raped," said Rep. Bill Black (R-Danville), who also has sponsored a failed bill. Griffin is one of at least three traveling carnival workers who have been arrested in Bucks County since 2013 with criminal records one of them for crimes We open at around 5 or 6 pm on Saturday, close at 10 or 11pm, tear down rides (about four hours), drive them to the next spot (typically about 45 minutesto an hour and a half), then set them all back up (about sevenhours). 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. Step right up to the king of all carnival rip-offs, Razzle Dazzle, which searches for and destroys its prey. All embrace lucrative interests while striving for a trouble-free show, which can and does lead to tolerable criminal pursuits. Ive seen horror shows and Ive seen highschool kids. The FBI and game enforcement experts are available to present seminars to police departments. They primarily operated in Biloxi, Mississippi, but the groups reach soon stretched from Atlanta, Georgia to Tulsa, Oklahoma. 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. Everyone has their small group of people they work with on a ride and become close to. 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. Friendly associations are formed by acquainted individuals over several years. 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. Ugh. 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. I was a carnie for a summer. Furthermore, Lovett was convicted on two charges of extortion and two more charges of making false statements to the FBI. I've worked nine years at one of the largest single-unit carnivals in the country. The mark must accumulate 100 yards (or over) to win that X-Box or HD TV. Dishonest carnival operators generally keep two sets of books, reporting only that sum of money as necessary, with the remainder unreported, states the Michigan Attorney Generals Carnival Games Manual.This 1987 publication is an important tool for law enforcement officers and prosecuting attorneys. There are several national stories in 2013 depicting how one tubs agent had depleted a victims back account. Cops are discouraged from arresting the dishonest carny for two obvious reasons: money and politics. Because of the mixture of carnival-related contract money and politics, the unwritten rule in Dearborn and other towns figures to be: No enforcement of midway games!, NAME also had a contract to pay off-duty Joliet, Illinois, police officers an hourly rate of $49.92 to work security at a weekend shopping mall carnival. From his prison cell in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, Nix created a lonely hearts scam that targeted innocent gay men. 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. Most carnies are just people with nowhere else to go - usually no family to speak of orskills to get them a career. In this CBS News Online, July 12, 2011, video expos, U.S. Now, lets go back to the first question: Have you ever played a carnival game and felt cheated? Also zeroed in as targets, are members of the U.S. military. Some of them love their job;some dislike it and do it to get by. He finally got his settlement, and actually gave my Mom and Dad some money for their trouble. The police supervisor, having a policy of non-enforcement on carnival midways, refused to dispatch a unit to talk to the victim and witnesses to the larceny by trick. The mark will often return and become heavily invested, as the doubling effect will drain his bank account before reaching the goal line. I had alienated some ranking officers because I thought my job in law enforcement was to protect festivalgoers and to crack down on the crooks. Natasha Ishak is a staff writer at All That's Interesting. Are the officers who wear NAME shirts really policing officers or just bouncers with the job of protecting games and ridding the midway of sore losers?. Theres something inherently interresting in flirting with the danger of putting your entertainment in the hands of a untrustworthy-looking stranger, and I know more than one of our crew made extra money just off of their image / appearance in that way. Law enforcement must first recognize this systemic national illness and how it capitalizes on unprotected Americans. As a retired police officer, I continued to expose and help curb what I found to be a free-wheeling crime anomaly, by publishing several investigative accounts, including two books: Carnival Games: The Perfect Crimes (2010) and Carnival Games: $10,000,000,000 Hoodwink Racket (2012). Thomas did not get the opportunity to measure the elliptical rims as hoped. Testimony was that Roach paid Lovett for protection from police while Roach cheated customers through such games as Razzle Dazzle also known as Razzle, which gave players no chance to win. Lovett was also fined $50,000. We take pride in what we do. Huston, vice president of Operations at Pugh Shows at the time, was present when Argo was arrested. I think most of these businesses will be gone in a few years. But did the Dixie Mafias grip on the American South really end in the 1990s? (AP) Three carnival workers have been charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a couple at a Kansas fair whose bodies were found days later in shallow graves in a national forest in Arkansas. 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. Often described as the Cornbread Cosa Nostra, the Dixie Mafia first emerged in the American South in the 1960s. Civilized folks are always suspicious of transients, and it goes back a lot further than Gypsies. But at the other five carnivals, nine workers had warrants and several other employees gave fake names to authorities or fled the festival grounds. State law prohibits child sex offenders from working at a carnival. Cops who protect illegal games would be in violation (federally) of the anti-corruption legislation under 18 U.S. Code, Part 1, Chapter 73, section 1511 of RICO Act: Obstruction of State and local law enforcement.. The old classic carnivals with geeks & shows of dubious morality etc. 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. This trickery employs a miscall or miscount known as carnival fairbanking, which is a duplicitous scheme, i.e., the flatty misguides the mark through alluring favoritism as an inducement to draw his prey further into the costly illusion of winning a luxurious prize and enormous cash. 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. WebThe HBO series "Carnivle" centered around a traveling carnival in the American Southwest during the 1930s. In the carnival business, the slang synonymous with rig or trick is gaff; i.e., The game is gaffed. Most operators of gaffed games combine gambling with the gaff in order to pinch as much money as possible from the unwitting customer. Any accurate count of the marbles will correspond to no yards on the chart.). It's definitely not the mall parking lot show that most think of when you hear "carnival." It does tend to be full of gossip since everyone works and lives with each other in close quartersRide and customer safety is the number-one priority. 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. This game is not only fraudulent, (deception for money), it is much worse when adults steal from young kids. After my shift that day, I saw that city carnival for myself and was just as shocked. The cost of play builds exponentially. Its a mix. Marcello tolerated the Dixie Mafias presence as long as they played by his rules and paid for his hospitality. Some believed the word to be derogatory. "I'd recommend you stay with [your children] every ride and every attraction on the midway. Authorities on enforcement of carnival games estimate that 25 percent of all carnival games nationwide are fraudulent. So while carnival talk did not entice people, it did help the carnies to ensure that the customers never knew about the shady back-end of things, Winter says. On the night of February 18, 1969, at least five alleged members of the Dixie Mafia ransacked the Skeebow Trailer Court near Lake Pontchartrain, where traveling carnival employees had set up their camp. 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. 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. Having a secret language is a necessity to avoid discovery. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. This, combined with the hoodwink nods from corrupt public servants, seems to be the big American secret at fairs and festivals. [2] The word carnival, originally meaning a "time of merrymaking before Lent" and referring to a time denoted by lawlessness (often ritualised under a lord of misrule figure and intended to show the consequences of social chaos), came into use around 1549. Carnival Corp. has been on criminal probation since 2017 as part of a record-setting $40 million fine and plea agreement for illegally dumping oily waste into the Since then, very little has been heard about the Cornbread Cosa Nostra. Thats exactly what I did. I will usually see three to eight tubs on every midway of Wade Shows and North American Midway Entertainment. To view the full story in, 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, narrated by NBCs national correspondent Jeff Rossen, entitled , Are carnival games cheating you - and your kids? The various suspect games on NAMEs midway, vividly depicted in Biloxi and Indianapolis, are featured in Jeff Rossens and Sandra Thomass 2012 expos. Another 25 percent are illegal since they are gambling games. Sponsors, and especially church festival committees, likely make the mistake of trusting carny-managers under the ill-judged impression that they (sponsors) share game profits. We have a full drug testing center on-site. But at least half the time, itd backfire, and Id have guys my grandpas age trying to convince me that since I said anything in the truck, and I was standing in the truck, that meant when they won I was gonna give them the night of their life. Most of the carnival workers were busy manning concessions in the French Quarter of New Orleans that night. There seems to be this very strong stereotype of carnival workers as being shady, creepy, untrustworthy, scary, or somehow deviant in some other way. Very long hours - up to 20 a day for five to sevendays straight. 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. ", In this CBS News Online, July 12, 2011, video. Gummo was about white trash in a small dirt-poor town. A week after Dearborns Arab festival, Sandra Thomas took her Today show hidden camera investigation crew to NAMEs midways in Biloxi, Mississippi, and Indianapolis, Indiana, to see if the NAME carnivals at those locations displayed crooked games. 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. He said you could make enough money each summer to last the year, and a lot of his old carnie friends travel all over the world when they aren't working fairs. ;)) He was a fun drunk, too! The gang then broke into 10 trailers in search of valuables and cash. Drupal theme by ThemeSnap.com, Carnival racketeering is endemic throughout the United State and has been for years. It's actually a really fun environment. Here is the typical scenario of a Razzle casualty: Feeling duped and dazed, the bewildered Razzle mark walks away a big loser and realize hes been somehow ripped off. In 2012, I was contacted by NBCs Today show producer Sandra Thomas, who wanted to consult with me regarding a story about carnival games. 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. This contract arrangement locks the carny-cops in as quasi-employees of the carnival or carnival sponsor and shares carnival profits in the form of pay. In 2012, a financial advisor from New York City, who read about Razzle in one of my books, wrote to inform me that he was swindled for a total of $11,000 as a result of playing Razzle at a Manhattan street fair. I conservatively estimate NAME to be a $150 million-per-year corporation based on its stated 15-million fairgoers annually and on an average of only $10 per capita. Not one ball went through any of the 12 stingy rims. It took the media to address the tubs crimes and not police in the three tub cases cited. The sheriffs revenge story was later depicted in the 1973 film Walking Tall. Seven responded with insights into their job or advice for I thought the carny rep for being shady came from the idea that carnival games were fixed so you couldnt win any good prices. I hope I have answered it for you. They dont have ties in the community. It turns out their real lives have more dimension than anyone gives them credit for. In addition to carny jargon, some carnival workers used a special infix ("earz" or "eez" or "iz") to render regular language unintelligible to outsiders. Although there have been several complaints about gambling and rigged games at the Arab festivals, they have never been investigated by police. We certainly hope this deals them a major blow, said one attorney at the time. (No, not that Cecil. WebAnswer (1 of 2): Ahh.. ciazarn. A worker with a criminal background sexually assaulted three children at Downers Grove Heritage Fest two years ago, according to DuPage County records. 15.5% of Carnival Workers are Hispanic or Latino, 8.1% of Carnival Workers are Black or African American, 5.4% of Carnival Workers are Asian, 4.5% of Carnival Workers are Unknown, and 0.1% of Carnival Workers are American Indian and Alaska Native. YouTubePete Halat, Kirksey McCord Nixs former lawyer who once served as the mayor of Biloxi. During the 1960s, a group of criminals known as the Dixie Mafia began to creep across cities and towns in the South. With the likelihood that carnival business books are being cooked, the Internal Revenue Services expertise would be invaluable in uncovering money trails. By the 1980s, many top members of the Dixie Mafia had found themselves in prison. Im curious because Ive worked shows for many years, both as a canvas boss and business manager. It would be a winning proposition to bet that changes in carnival status wont come overnight. 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. Not to say that all carnies are no-goodniks, but I think theres enough evidence and history to see where the reputation comes from. After a fruitful investigation, Thomas phoned to say that many of the games appeared to be rigged, based on results. It seems to me youre putting a lot of mental effort into coming up with a high-falutin intellectual explanation, when its simpler and more accurate to say the stereotype stems from carnies who are indeed shady. "After it became obvious that we were on the premises, a number of employees suddenly left.". Far from a sophisticated organization, this crime ring was a loose network of thugs, as the FBI called them. My dad built his own candy apple stand when he was in college and stayed in the business for over 30 years. 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. Most of the stereotypes stem form "back in the day" carnivals - whenfugitivesand all-around seedy people could only find work on a carnival. With the astronomical amounts of cash the Razzle sharks are capable of taking, one never should rule out the possibility of protection by dirty cops, often in the vicinity of a Razzle set-up. 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. (Regulation rims are 18 inches in diameter). So, I singled out a known scam artist operating one of the basketball games, Kenneth David Argo, a 12-year game agent for Huston. Frank has carnival contracts there as well. She was clearly astonished and interested in securing this elliptical type of rim for a demonstration during her Today feature. Theyre Other, therefore theyre not to be trusted. Carnivals have close ties to not only organized crime but to local law enforcement. I am well aware of the acceptability of these games by the general public and the misplaced attitude of Whats the big deal? One guy in Kansas mortgaged his house and sent $30,000 to the scammers over a period of months. To make matters worse, some of the prisoners eventually confessed the scheme to victims and threatened to out them if they told anyone. In New York City, the Colombo and Genovese crime families were involved with profits from street and church fair carnival games; their specialty being the game of Razzle. A prime example is the Chief Willie Lovett case. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. On November 29, 2002, Frank peeled off $5,000 in the same Florida account only days after Jeb Bush was reelected to governor. The carnival industrys sleazy image is in dire need of a facelift. Its only nickel and dime! I hope this article will be an epiphany to naysayers, that this blind uninformed acceptability, enabled by politics and the absence of enforcement, will one day be a big deal. I remember a lot of late nights when my mom would come home to our trailer late after the fairgrounds had closed. I quickly learned that the carnival in question donated $1,000 to the police department and some officers didnt want to upset the carnival workers and chance losing that gift. In Scotland they are simply known as "'''Travellers'''" ( not to be confused with Irish travellers or Gypsies) . He died broke shortly thereafter. I read every article, book, and case law I could find relating to these games. With 80 yards most marks are usually willing to buy more plays; however, the marble total often adds to 29, the dreaded doubling number. Each time 29 is played, the agent doubles the prize and the mark must double his wager. From murdering authority figures to burning down buildings to creating elaborate extortion schemes, the Dixie Mafia was known far and wide as an anything-for-a-buck gang. While they were initially based out of Biloxi, Mississippi, it didnt take long for their reach to spread all across the South. Pete Halat, Kirksey McCord Nixs former lawyer who once served as the mayor of Biloxi. Ignoring it, wont make it go away. But the carnival I work forhas spent a long time building their image up to try to distance themselves from the stigma. 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. I havent thought about that in a long time. On February 6, 2015, Willie Lovett was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison for Conspiracy to obstruct enforcement of criminal laws and related gambling crimes. With 80 yards and only having to spend $2, the mark, psyched because of such good luck, is eager to buy more spills. In my research spanning the last 17 years, I estimate that about 75 percent of carnival games on todays traveling midways are gambling, frauds, or a combination of both; up from law enforcements earlier estimate of 50 percent. They dont! Im not sure what other highly-transient, blue collar labor force[s] youre alluding to, but I disagree that carnies only seem different from such groups because of where and how they interact with the public. The flatty allowed this gentleman to leave and return with money retrieved from an ATM several times. Tubs of Fun, known as a bucket games, consist of plastic tubs which replace the old bushel baskets, where the agent is able to execute an unnoticeable stealthy trick only when demonstrating how easy it is to win.. 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. 47% of Carnival Workers have a high school diploma degree, 10% major in criminal justice. With a greater number of gambling and crooked games, the carnival owner will increase his undivided claim to the unshared game loot. You have to be clean-shaven, no tattoos (if you do, you have tocover them), and wear clean uniforms. Step right up to the king of all carnival rip-offs, Razzle Dazzle, which searches for and destroys its prey. 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 Carnival-related bribes and illegal transactions pave the way for the crooked migratory hustlers to trailer into your neighborhood for a weekend each year, never having a need to worry about arrest. Human flotsam. Commit a petty crime in every town they go thru. Six flags is much better and safer. He was an alcoholic. But the operation unraveled when half a million dollars suddenly went missing. Gaffed and chance-based games from the same carnival companies travel to thousands of carnival lots and fairs each year. 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. Carnival midways are the only venues in the United States where local Countless other Democrat politicians split another $100,000 from the Gregorys. "For small fairs, it's very hard to even have a carnival," Ostermeier said. Carnivals/fairs are a lot of hard work. confuse the mark, build him up repetitively and let him believe he is close to the big win. According to law enforcement sources, the outdoor amusement industry is at least a $10 billion-per-year business in North America, mostly a cash-based trade. 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