Wow. Can you believe this? You know those basketball games on the Wildwood boardwalk where you can win a knock off Kelly Green Reno Mahe jersey? They were actually rigged this whole time! Your jump shot wasn’t actually broken. It was the over-inflated basketballs this whole time!

Via Robert Moran at the Inky:

An amusement operator accused of rigging boardwalk games in Wildwood and North Wildwood has been banned for 10 years from running such games and fined $15,500, New Jersey authorities announced Wednesday.

Christine Strothers allegedly ran games with overinflated basketballs — sometimes by as much as three times the manufacturer’s specifications — causing them to bounce erratically to lower the chances of a player winning.

Sources close to Crossing Broad with knowledge of Christine’s practices said she would allegedly run “Ladies Day Specials” where she’d offer women a discounted price to sucker their boyfriends into losing all their money trying to win that big stuffed teddy bear… that she wasn’t even offering to begin with:

During the summer, inspections were conducted at each game. Besides finding the overinflated basketballs, the commission found Strothers had displayed large plush animals that were not actual prizes and failed to show the prizes that could be won, the order said.

Some would call that bad business practice, I call it being an entrepreneur. If you don’t think you’re getting taken to the cleaners by a guy with fewer college credits than teeth, then you must walk around with the rosiest outlook on life. I don’t even care about the over-inflated basketballs. They should be investigating the oval-shaped rims:

via u/andkan1 on Reddit

You have to shoot like Allen Iverson in this video to win anything:

And how about the Attorney General on his high horse:

“Every person who plays an amusement game in the State of New Jersey deserves a fair shot at winning a prize,” state Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said in a statement.

“The Jersey Shore is one of the biggest draws in the state for families looking for fun and recreation and we are making sure those families are not being scammed out of their hard-earned money,” Platkin said.

Buddy how about we focus our efforts on cleaning up Camden, Trenton, and Newark and leave the carnies alone? Next they’re gonna do a sting on the shirt stores because they’re not really 100% cotton.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa those Wildwood days, wild, wild Wildwood days!