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.

Dana666: 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.

TGJB: 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.

Silver Charm: Or where he gets his warm lemonade......

Rick B.: 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.