Do you know any stoopers?

dellinger63 · #1 12-08-2009, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by hoovesupsideyourhead

there is a guy named 'bones'..hes from chicago..i see him at all the tracks..derby/toga/ ect..dell and the chi town boys see him around..

didn't see him all summer and neither did the fatman. He's originally from Louisville maybe went back there. Actually have his cell and it was disconected around Million time. Hope he didn't get in trouble for his 'side' business. Chicken Man probably had a good summer picking up all his customers.

MISTERGEE · #2 12-08-2009, 01:14 PM

i do believe these are a dying breed. used to see them by the truckloads in south florida tracks. I have found quite a few winners just by accident staring me in the face without looking a few times

richard · #3 12-08-2009, 01:19 PM

It figures this guy would be hanging out at a NYC OTB. I do amire his tenacity.

Scav · #4 12-08-2009, 02:44 PM

The thing that pisses me off about these guys is that they hold up machines. And they turn around and look at you like they are doing it on purpose, like they are a cooler or something.

asudevil · #5 12-08-2009, 10:31 PM

I was amazed at the number of uncashed tickets over a 2 year period at NYRA tracks....8.5 million bucks!

Cannon Shell · #6 12-09-2009, 12:26 PM

I stooped as a kid at various tracks throughout the east coast. This was so long ago the tickets were different colors based upon the amount of the bet.

The Indomitable DrugS · #7 12-09-2009, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

I stooped as a kid at various tracks throughout the east coast. This was so long ago the tickets were different colors based upon the amount of the bet.

I'm too much of a germophobe to have ever attempted stooping.

philcski · #8 12-09-2009, 01:52 PM

I'm thinking of becoming a stooper

dean smith · #9 12-09-2009, 07:50 PM

T.D. Thornton's book Not By a Long Shot devotes some time to the Suffolk Downs stoopers. I read it awhile ago, but if I remember correctly, they are described as being the lowest-of-the-low racetrack patrons -- the "unclean". They're like the people who root through your trash at 5 a.m. and fill their trucks with old bicycles and appliances so they can sell the scrap metal.

Good book, by the way.

Making a couple of extra bucks on the side scrapping metal actually sounds like it might be pretty fun. I ain't knockin' it! And I really can't knock stooping, either. I personally would be too embarrassed to do it myself (not that I'm too proud to stoop, but I'd be mortified if someone saw me), but hey, if people are throwing money on the ground...