Truck Stop 3 Card Monte

Are they still at it ? I saw them at the same locations 4 years ago . They have someone watching management . When the manager of the Pilot headed for the lot they took off . Security at the rest area called the GA Patrol but they took off . Security couldn't stop them but got their license plate number .

 

A couple months ago at the Nitro, WV Pilot, I went to the back of my trailer to get a lock off and found 4 guys playing 3 card. The one card had a corner bent, so it was easy to pick. They asked which card, and I picked the right one each time. The one guy with a hand full of cash said he just won it on a scratch off ticket or something. Next thing I know, I had a few hunderd in my hands. Well, since I wasnt born yesterday, I gave em back the dough and got outta there. Money is earned, not given.

 

I also saw this scam about a year or so ago at the Flying J in Jeffersonville, OH. A group of people were hanging out behind my truck. I went back to see what was going on, and one of them said the old guy was a driver who had won $140,000 dollars playing lotto. He was supposedly a driver and was giving fellow drivers a shot at easy money. I stood and watched as people won over and over. I was asked if I wanted a shot to win and said I didn't have any cash. One of them said to go get some out of the ATM. I acted like I was going and hopped in my truck and drove off.
The world is full of rubes though that will fall for these carnie games all the time.

 

I saw this in truckstops 25 yrs ago. cant believe its stll being done. but then Pt Barnum said " theres a sucker born every minute".

 

I got taken by this scam when I was an eighteen year old kid fresh off the farm and in the city for the first time. The first few rounds they even let me win a few dollars. Wasn't long before they wiped me out. That was one of the many lessons I learned about street smarts that year. Bottom line, you don't show your wallet or take it out of your pocket for anyone. The first time I gave money to a homeless man two of his buddies started throwing hands and I lost everything. To this day, I don't speak to anyone who wants something from me. Not the people banging on my truck at 2 am begging for gas money, or the guy who is always selling jewelry.

 

Well they are at it again on I 80 in Indianna- Prob headed to IL. We are at mm 22 toll plaza - WB

 

Seems they've popped up again recently, TA Russell road illinois. Tried to get me in, but knowing how 3 card monte is, I was quick to take the 1st opportunity to walk away when 1 of em left to "get money from the atm". Also didn't help their scheme that 3rd person there I had seen walking from the car lot and the 4th that left for the atm walked up without any of the 3 with him.

Wouldn't have been pretty if the 3 tried to do anything by force unarmed though. They picked the wrong mark considering their ages and weights haha.

 

I never played three card. But we had three cups and ball. Usually the dealer will slide the cup containing the ball off the edge of the table just so while shuffling ensuring your loss. I think a second ball was sleigh of hand ready to drop into the one that you did not pick. That was how it went anyhow.

If there was going to be a scam, it would be a person crying to anyone who will listen at the fuel line in say... Atlanta Petro Bankhead that they were never given the 200 dollars comcheck due after lumping a load as told to me once years and years ago. I told him to go away, not my problem. Violence or some other problem was a real possibility in those days when the parasite, predator or scammer do not see you taking the bait.

I sometimes consider the imaginativeness, energy, passion and stage acting that these people do while being very dangerous, cunning, smarter than any shrink could ever be to find the one angle against you in a few moments interaction, best done when you are engaged in a problem that distracts you such as fueling.

I will share this scam with you one that has gotten me a few times.

If you are sent somewhere with a load to two or more recievers, that load being stacked layers and counted per pallet exactly so for the forklift to pick off you in a few minutes bypassing stacking big wood to small wood or restacking from... 11 layer to... 8 layer etc make #### sure NO one from the first reciever touch the second half or rest of the load. Stand over that first reciever until the very last pallet comes off your rig concluding your first stop.

Make him sign papers, tell him firmly to go away and be quiet. Close the doors and proceed to your second stop in the area of say.. Hunt's Point.

The scam is this. Reciever one knows to rearrange the second reciever's load for a fee in cash knowing second reciever will charge you double to rearrange or worse have you lump it costing the appointment time of the third reciever down the line.

You follow me? Everyone can stand in line sucking cash out of you just like a walmart demanding 110 dollars to unload your trailer in a few hours time.

Gambling? At Sky City off 105 in the Atoma Casino which in those days was quite nice when not too super busy. Tables only. Never machines or outside street, lot gambling.