I’ll hit a big one, one of these days, and be back on top.

[JBmadera]

Had to laugh, "the high roller look", but really it's sad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/nyregion/not-betting-a-dime-a-voucher-vulture-cleans-up-at-the-slots.html?_r=2

[NJ Stinks]

I can't think of a decent reason this guy had to allow himself to be interviewed.

[VastinMT]

I can't think of a decent reason this guy had to allow himself to be interviewed.

Agreed. The man found money. So he told the world exactly where to find it.

Which, I suppose, is why he's doing what he does.

[Shelby]

I learn something new every day. :faint:

[Valuist]

I learn something new every day. :faint:

Exactly. According to this guy, stooping actually had a "golden age".

[Jay Trotter]

My parents go to a Native American casino just across the border in Belcourt, North Dakota. My Mom is not a stooper but happened to see an unattended machine with credits on it. She cashed it out and took the slip -- I believe it was about $20.00.

A couple minutes later she is approached by casino security who ask her to accompany them back to their office. She is then raked through the coals and advised it is illegal to cash out credits that aren't yours. The problem wasn't that she took someone's credits who had left briefly, as that wasn't the case. Apparently, those unattended credits belong to the casino.

She was let off with a "stern warning" and advised not to do it again. Now she's afraid to go back to that casino!

[Beachbabe]

"So honey, what's your new boyfriend do for a living?"

"He's a 'stooper'. "

[Shelby]

:lol:

[ElKabong]

“It’s a legitimate living — the money’s been left behind,” he said on Wednesday. “It’s surer money than stooping; it’s steadier, and it’s cleaner — you don’t have to fish through garbage cans.”

Well now, looks like life is looking up for Mr Used To Be A Stooper :lol:

[horses4courses]

My parents go to a Native American casino just across the border in Belcourt, North Dakota. My Mom is not a stooper but happened to see an unattended machine with credits on it. She cashed it out and took the slip -- I believe it was about $20.00.

A couple minutes later she is approached by casino security who ask her to accompany them back to their office. She is then raked through the coals and advised it is illegal to cash out credits that aren't yours. The problem wasn't that she took someone's credits who had left briefly, as that wasn't the case. Apparently, those unattended credits belong to the casino.

She was let off with a "stern warning" and advised not to do it again. Now she's afraid to go back to that casino!

Working in surveillance in a Lake Tahoe casino, the situation your mother was in is exactly what could happen here, also.

We come across "credit punchers", "silver miners", "seagulls", or whatever else they are referred to as, all the time. Business is not what it used to be, though, due to the spread of casino gambling nation wide, so it's slim pickings now compared to back in the day for those looking for free money.

Those who do it regularly, and get caught, are "86ed" - permanently barred from the premises.
People such as your mother, make honest mistakes that receive a warning.

I have to say I'm surprised, though, by the article shown above.
Casino cruising (looking for other people's slot credits) should, in my opinion, always be discouraged by gaming establishments.
The alternative leads to a constant flow of undesireables walking the beat at all hours of the day and night.
A casino that tolerates this practice is endangering it's clientele, and will lose good business over time if it cannot control the matter.

If the racinos put up with it now, they are likely to change their tune down the road.

[bks]

A few lines in, it becomes clear what this article is "about."

At the end, we get the confirmation:

He works 12-hour days and finds $600 to $1,200 a week, Mr. Bemsel said, but winds up blowing most of it on bad horse picks. “The whole reason I do this is to feed my gambling addiction,” he said. “It’s an illness.”

He paused during his racino rounds on Wednesday and said, “I’ll hit a big one, one of these days, and be back on top.”

Intended moral of the story: this is what gambling will do to you.