today I wanted to tell a story I
recently told on stream about the time I
got scammed for all of the money I had
at the time I must have been 18 maybe 19
I was definitely still a virgin when
this happened not that that's pertinent
to the story but just a little bit of
lore there a little side note and my
friend Andrew had come Vis come to visit
me so we could party at my University
but unfortunately when he came up there
were no parties and if there were we
certainly weren't invited the lacrosse
Bros did did not want the gamer nerds
coming in so I've got my buddy Andrew
over and he's just eating [ __ ]
Reese's cups as we're doing nothing
except playing like Tekken Tag
Tournament 2 and then eventually we
decided to find something else to do and
we found a carnival that had rolled into
town it was like one of those pop-up
shop carnivals where they transport
everything in on like a dilapidated
school bus so they scooted in and they
setup shop nearby and we're like well
[ __ ] it we're not doing anything else
let's go to this Carnival and I swear to
God when we got there it looked like
something out of Courage the Cowardly
Dog this place looked haunted and we
were basically like the only customers
there there was like a few children or
at least the spirits of children that
were there like hanging out and they
were riding the only ride at this
Carnival which was one of those spinning
rides that it was like this giant
horrifying metal contraption that just
looked like a medieval torture device it
looked like a [ __ ] Transformer that
had gotten hit with a stick of dynamite
it looked so rusted and gross I have no
doubt that was just a tetanus disaster
waiting to happen I don't I don't even
know if those kids are even alive
anymore if they rode that [ __ ] thing
but that's about all they had they had
that one ride and then a ton of shady
carnival games not like the fun goofy
ones that you can actually win you know
like the basketball one or shooting
water into a Target they had only the
rigged ones that you can't win under any
circumstances so this was less of a
carnival that came in and more of Just
Like a Rolling scam that travels but of
course I'm 18 19 years old at the time
I'm a virgin so all I'm really thinking
about his titties and how I'm not seeing
them so you know I I kind of disregard
that and I'm going around with Andrew
and we're playing a few of the games of
course we're not winning anything not
even like those tiny stuffed animals
we're getting nothing all're the closest
thing we're getting to a prize is
stepping on a used condom in the parking
lot like there's just really nothing
that we're accomplishing we're just
wasting money and wasting time to
reiterate the location it was literally
in a parking lot in between two
condemned buildings that was the
location this [ __ ] Barron Wasteland
looked like something out of the Fallout
Universe it would have been less gross
to just wander through catacombs cuz at
least then we wouldn't have been losing
money doing it but I came to this with
like $200 in my wallet or something like
that and we were playing through these
games not winning and I'd gone down like
50 or 60 bucks I don't remember exactly
what but it was a lot like we we were
spending a lot of time just indulging in
this filthy sin now before I get to like
the actual meat here of when I lost all
my money and how this all happened I
want to drive home a point I'm not
exactly like a super gullible person I
don't think I like to imagine like I'm a
Grizzly chiseled man with hair on my
sack because as an avid RuneScape player
I know how to recognize a scam I started
playing RuneScape in 2005 and I got used
like a flashlight on that game I was
falling for a lot of scams I once gave
my [ __ ] password away to a guy who
said that didn't think my password was
cool so to prove him wrong I just gave
him my password in order to impress him
then I lost my account to him like I I I
was scammed a lot and it was an
invaluable lesson it taught me when
someone's trying to take advantage of me
how to recognize a scammer and just like
all of these red flags that should go
off in people's heads when they're faced
with a scam I you know I think every
child should be scammed at some point
teach him a valuable lesson they don't
need to lose their house or anything or
like get wrapped up with a crypto
gambling scam or whatever but you know
maybe just like a small scale scam for
candy you know teach them a little
something that I always belied that the
lessons I learned in RuneScape through
getting scammed would be very helpful
and so far they have been but on that
day nothing could have prepared me for
the scam that I was going to encounter
at that godforsaken
Carnival the game was the toss a ball
off a backboard make it land in a bucket
and you win one of the jumbo prizes like
the [ __ ] Wombo sized unicorns and and
bears and [ __ ]
so for those that don't know the game is
a wooden backboard it's a big circle and
it's at an angle slanted this way
underneath it is a basket that's poking
out just enough for a ball to bounce off
the backboard and fall in the basket and
you only have to do it one time and you
win the biggest prize so this Carnival
is not very big obviously Andrew and I
had passed this a few times and it
wasn't like there was some Heavenly glow
on it like this is the game for me this
is the one I want to play but as we
passed it for like the third or fourth
time the dude finally calls over he's
like you guys are just wandering around
come over here let's just like talk and
hang out and you know we weren't doing
anything so we'll come flirt with this
guy whatever and he's just so
charismatic we're just talking shooting
the [ __ ] I think he brought up Sports
and at the time I was like a sports fan
so we talked a little bit and then he
just started talking about his game he's
like if you guys want to play you can
just like play this game it's $5 for
three throws you know might as well and
we'll just keep talking I was like
that's a good deal $5 three throws and
it looks really easy and he's like well
I don't want you to think that this is
like rigged or anything I want to show
you that this can be done cuz you know
he must have seen us lose
so he demonstrated that it could be done
so he walks up he's like a little off
off to the side of where I'm standing
where I have to stand to shoot and he
bounces it off the backboard first try
right in the bucket he's like yeah I can
do this all day picks up the ball does
it again picks up the ball does it again
he does it like three times in a row and
it's like okay this game looks really
easy so then he hands me the the balls
it's an absolute disaster I'm sticking
my dick in my own ass I can't get a
single Ball even close to the bucket no
matter how lightly I throw it or where
I'm hitting the backboard for some
reason it's like it's being shot out of
a cannon once it hits that backboard and
it's not making any sense to me cuz I'm
doing like the exact same thing he is
I'm putting a little spin on it it's
just not getting the job done nothing's
working and then he hits me with this
proposition for $10 I'll give you 10
throws and I'll give you your money back
from this round and the previous round
and still give you the big prize I was
like what in tarnation this is the
nicest guy on Earth what a great deal 10
throws $10 and I get all of my money
back plus the big prize what am I
waiting for I'm [ __ ] losing money not
playing right now how am I going to say
no to this that right there is a huge
red flag I didn't know this until well
after the fact but this is a well-known
Carnival scam when they start saying you
could win your money back they're
they're doing that because they know you
can't the game is rigged he shows me
again he's like hey let me just make
sure you know that you can do this just
do it just like this so then he just
makes it five more times right in front
of me like he just shows that it is very
easily achievable hands me the balls I
go through all 10 balls nothing even
close like sometimes you can get it to
bounce off the backboard and hit the
basket inside but the ball so light that
it bounces right out like every single
time so now I'm $15 in the [ __ ] and
I'm feeling really bad Andrew is trying
to be like the guardian angel on my
shoulder like Charlie let's just go
ahead and leave you're not going to make
this it's it's clearly too difficult and
there's some trick to it you don't know
and I took that as a challenge I'm like
excuse me [ __ ] what did you say
to me you say I can't do this sign me up
for another round let's ride and it's
the same deal he doubled the price again
so $20 for 10 balls but I can win my
money back so for $20 I can win my $15
back and then I'm I'm back where I
started Ed and everything's good and I
get the big prize so again I go through
all 10 balls nothing nothing at all now
this is a lot of money again this was
$200 that's everything I had in my
wallet that's everything I had at the
time for spendable cash so this is a lot
of money that I am uh juggling around
here we didn't go to the carnival with
the intent to spend a lot but just
getting wrapped up in boredom and just
like the will to not keep being a loser
at the carnival just kept me spending so
after the $20 I'm like Jesus Christ what
is going on you know it's definitely a
me problem I've seen this [ __ ] guy do
it you know 10 times now now let me
paint a picture of the guy for you
because it's not like he was some kind
of athlete where it's like oh this guy
probably plays in the NBA he's just got
real talent no this guy had a body like
a bag of hot dogs like he is not some
Guru of backboard bouncing or anything
so clearly if he can do it I should also
be able to do it anyone should be able
to do it he so he demonstrates it's
possible against he's like bro look I
really hate to see you lose this much
money I'm not going to double the price
this time look just give me another $20
give you 10 more throws and you can win
all your money back and I'll still give
you the prize I'm like thank you for
being such a nice guy damn near wanted
to lean over and Pat him on the ass I
was like man this guy what a saint so I
give him another $20 and I do my 10
throws and you know how the story goes
it doesn't go in none of them go in
they're not even close so at this point
now what am I $55 $60 down almost and
it's been like
half an hour of just this Andrew's
sitting there watching this whole train
wreck happen and it's just it's not
getting any better the guy's gone from
Charming to full-blown scam mode he like
completely drops the facade of being
nice after like the second time I did
$20 for 10 throws he's like y you want
to do 20 more you can win your money
back you probably want that money back
so he starts guilting me into it I'm
like he's right I need that money back
so I give him another $20 I go through
the balls it's not even close I lose
again and I'm sweating I am sweating so
[ __ ] hard Andrew is begging me not to
keep playing the game but I'm seeing red
now and I I can't stop I have to so I do
20 again for another 10 throws to try
and win my money back I don't do it I
fail again this [ __ ] like this this
guy is still just pting still trying to
squeeze every scent out of me I'm just
this dude's little dirty cumrag that
he's ringing out and getting some money
from so we continue for another like 15
20 minutes or however long it was it
felt like an eternity and I'm down to my
last $20 in my wallet and you know I I'm
praying you know [ __ ] give that $20 a
kiss and I spend it I I I rolled the
dice I went for it one more time and I
don't win I'm now completely out of
money I tell him that and I start to
just ask if he could just give me some
of it back I'm desperate I I wanted some
of it back I I needed some of it back
and he's like bro I I just can't do that
my boss would be really mad at me if I
let that happen but look there's an ATM
over like it was like a couple blocks
away he told me the location he's like
just go to the ATM get get some more
money come back and I I will absolutely
show you the the perfect tricks you're
just not getting the technique right and
I'll show you what you're doing wrong so
this piece of [ __ ] tried to get me to go
to an ATM to get more money out to keep
playing his game which was rigged there
was no way to win from the start I I'm
shocked he didn't try get me to sign
some kind of contract with blood this
[ __ ] demon and I strongly considered
it I did cuz that that's a lot of money
it was like $140 that I spent on that
game 200 in total at that [ __ ]
Carnival but on that game in particular
there was $140 right in the goddamn
toilet right into that stinky dumpster
and I needed that back like I I I really
wanted that back but Andrew talked me
out of actually going to get more money
from the at M like from savings or
something and uh I didn't go back I just
I ate the loss that to date is one of
like the most shameful moments SL scams
of my life now it wasn't until way after
the fact in fact even on stream is where
I learned how he was actually able to do
it I thought that I remembered on one of
those shows that bust carnival games
that are rigged I thought the reason he
was able to make it and I wasn't was the
angle he was able to throw from he was
able to throw much closer than I was in
this game there is a line that you have
to throw behind there is like a little
barrier that you have to throw from
behind that in order to to participate
and I thought that was the key he was
closer than I was and that's how he was
able to Ricochet it off every time into
the basket but it's actually deeper than
that that does play a role but he
actually used a heavier ball he didn't
use the exact same balls that he gave me
his ball was weighted more so when it
bounced off the backboard it didn't fly
as far so he was able to get it off the
backboard into the basket and have it
stay in the basket and that's why mind
couldn't do it it was something I never
noticed at the time that he wasn't using
the same balls he was giving me he had a
heavier one or a heavier set to use so
even if I went and somehow found $1,000
to put into that game that night I would
have never had a chance of winning my
money back despite this guy showing me
the how it was done and promising me
that if I just made one single ball in
that bucket I'd get all my money back
and all the problems would be solved I
still absolutely despise that guy I hold
the on that [ __ ] it takes a lot to scam
someone right to their face especially
like an 18-year-old college student who
is telling you how much the money means
to him and for you to knowingly keep
misleading them and make them believe
they can win it back and that you're a
good guy like you're a giant piece of
[ __ ] besides the obvious lesson I
learned from this experience I also
learned how to [ __ ] them in the ass the
games that aren't rigged I mastered I
decided I want to win all their big
prizes because [ __ ] them I'm able to win
their biggest prizes on my first try and
I just give those prizes away to people
at the carnival so I never feel scammed
again it's definitely Petty but it's a
little bit of Revenge for what the
carnival took from me on that night so I
posted this video a few years ago and
it's showing me winning like the
basketball game and the beer bottle game
for the giant prizes both of these games
are also rigged in favor of the carnival
but I was able to master the way of
doing them so the basketball game the
rim is an oval instead of a circle so
you have to have an absolutely perfect
high arcing shot in order for it to make
it and for the beer bottle game you have
to lean at the right time and the right
like distance lean and you can stand it
up every time so I master these games I
get the big prizes and I give that [ __ ]
away just so that way they lose a little
bit of money on those prizes a little
bit of pettiness from Charlie I'm like
the [ __ ] Batman of
carnivals so yeah anyway I just wanted
to share this story maybe it'll be like
educational for someone out there but at
the end of the day I just thought it was
a fun story
I'm over it now I still don't like the
guy who did that to me but yeah I just
thought it was worth sharing that's
about it see you