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Title: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
Post by: Boscar Obarra on December 10, 2010, 04:27:03 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/sports/09stooper.html?_r=1

During an 11-year run at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, Leonardo said, he cashed in nearly half a million dollars in winning tickets without placing a single bet. In racing parlance, he is a stooper, a person who picks up discarded betting slips and feeds them through a ticket scanner in the hope that someone else might have tossed out a winner. He said he brought home more than $45,000 a year for his wife and two teenagers, paying taxes all the while.

Title: Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
Post by: Dana666 on December 11, 2010, 11:39:37 AM

I have a very hard time believing this. Next thing I\'ll hear is the guy who sells $1 bottles of Poland Spring in the summer at the Holland Tunnel entrance makes 100K a year.

Title: Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
Post by: TGJB on December 11, 2010, 11:41:53 AM

If you there\'s a hose around that guy has zero overhead. Pretty sure you don\'t want to know where those bottles come from.

Title: Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
Post by: Silver Charm on December 16, 2010, 05:31:21 PM

Or where he gets his warm lemonade......

Title: Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
Post by: Rick B. on December 17, 2010, 06:47:08 AM

TGJB Wrote:
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> If you there\'s a hose around that guy has zero
> overhead.

Ahh, garden hose -- the original \"Poland Spring\" of my youth.

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