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Boscar Obarra

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If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
« on: December 10, 2010, 07:27:03 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.
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Dana666

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Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2010, 02:39:37 PM »
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.
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TGJB

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Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2010, 02:41:53 PM »
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.
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Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
« Reply #3 on: December 16, 2010, 08:31:21 PM »
Or where he gets his warm lemonade......
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Rick B.

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Re: If the numbers are right, he made more $ a year than most 'pros'
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2010, 09:47:08 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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