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Hoop-La stalls on fairgrounds.
I always thought that you had to be seriously good to win anything, and so did Blackpool Trading standards.
They had hundreds of complaints about people losing large amounts on the Hoop-La on the Golden Mile, so they sent in two young girls to test it. Not only did they find it impossible, they guy on the stall even 'helped' them to the cash point next door to fetch more money - the girls lost £70. Some people had lost more.
Trading Standards then raided the place and siezed rings and pillars.
They found that some of the rings didnt fit over the pillars at all, and the angle the end of the pillar plus the fact the rings were such an exact fit and of a square cross section, meant on average, even in ideal conditions, your chances of getting one ring over was 2633 to 1.
Philip Williams, 53, of Layton, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to two offences of breaching gambling laws and Darren Casey, 36, of Mereside, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to one similar charge.
Williams was sentenced to 14 weeks' imprisonment suspended for 12 months, told to carry out 270 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £2,000 costs. Casey was sentenced to 135 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £575 costs.
Fairgrounds - bunch of bloody crooks...............
I always thought that you had to be seriously good to win anything, and so did Blackpool Trading standards.
They had hundreds of complaints about people losing large amounts on the Hoop-La on the Golden Mile, so they sent in two young girls to test it. Not only did they find it impossible, they guy on the stall even 'helped' them to the cash point next door to fetch more money - the girls lost £70. Some people had lost more.
Trading Standards then raided the place and siezed rings and pillars.
They found that some of the rings didnt fit over the pillars at all, and the angle the end of the pillar plus the fact the rings were such an exact fit and of a square cross section, meant on average, even in ideal conditions, your chances of getting one ring over was 2633 to 1.
Philip Williams, 53, of Layton, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to two offences of breaching gambling laws and Darren Casey, 36, of Mereside, Blackpool, pleaded guilty to one similar charge.
Williams was sentenced to 14 weeks' imprisonment suspended for 12 months, told to carry out 270 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £2,000 costs. Casey was sentenced to 135 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £575 costs.
Fairgrounds - bunch of bloody crooks...............