Counterfeit tickets fooled machines

[karlskorner]

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Matt Hegarty

Apparently all those years of learning paid off for some

[hurrikane]

So...to all those people who say you can't beat the horses using a computer..feeling kind of stupid now aren't you.

[andicap]

Greed (and bad luck) killed these guys. As I understand it, their ticket grafting scheme had not been uncovered.

Anyone think there's a good movie here?

[rrbauer]

I'm up to chapter four in the book. The bad boys are at Monmouth for a weekend at the shore and pumping the SAM's for their rent money with tickets from the "outs" file!

[socalsportsbook]

Who said these guys were stupid?

I don't know about you but I would love to have been a part of that action. Think of the rush. I would not necessarily want to do it for the money. Money is not that big a deal or I wouldn't be playing the horses. Hell, they only would have scored a million a piece if they cashed.

Just stop and think about what they did. They knocked off horse racing on it's biggest day. If this was a real sport--say, World Series or Basketball--or if they would knocked over Vegas on Super Bowl day, they would be on Peter Jennings every night. Channel 2 (LA) would send that little wimpy guy who busts restaurants each sweeps month to White Plains to cover the story.

Think about the planning. When did they ACTUALLY do this? Where they at work on Breeders Cup day? Was AutoTote closed? Did one of them go to the office that day? Imagine if you had done this and you saw Valponi rushing along the rail...your blood would be boiling. I think it's amazing.

Some people have called these guys dumb. Are you kidding me. Dumb they are not. I would love to have been a part of that for the total thrill of it. I would imagine there are a lot of us who would jump at that chance. Not to be thieves but to beat the system like that. WoW!

Now everyone is getting all sanctimonous about now and thinking they stole our money. They hurt our game. Well just remember two rule where money is involved:

A-Someone is stealing it.
B--Someone is trying to steal it.

I LOVE THIS STUFF!!!

morgan

[trying2win]

Seems to me, that the lack of morals and ethics is involved in a lot of the issues here.

[Tom]

Originally posted by andicap
Greed (and bad luck) killed these guys. As I understand it, their ticket grafting scheme had not been uncovered.

Anyone think there's a good movie here?

Got to be role for Tom Arnold in this flick. Who for co-stars??

[Handle]

Seems to me people are still misunderstanding how pathetically easy it was to set this up provided you were employed by the right people.

Next time you go to your bank, look at the teller. That person could probably take money out of you account and deposit it where ever he/she feels like it within the banking system. Now, they'd probably get caught because banks aren't as stupid as Autotote is - and you might just notice the transaction. But the point is -- that's about as much "computer knowledge" as it took to pull this off.

Big thrill. I'm a valet. You give me the keys to your car and I drive off with it. Wow. I'm excited.

-Nathan