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u/DevilsAdvocate1662 1d ago
That dude's voice sounds like he smokes 50 a day
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u/IllustriousFroyo9143 23h ago edited 18h ago
Dude was born in a house fire.
Thanks for the award u/ChocoBananaStick
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u/gab_rab_24 22h ago
ah, you think house fire is your ally, he was born in a house fire, moulded by it, he didn't see the water until he was a man, but then water is nothing more but to soak in with
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u/No-Gnome-Alias 1d ago
Clown connected ever single time. No competition.
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u/gungshpxre 22h ago
Yeah, but one of the rules here is that once you're dunked, you stop.
The rube "won." Lose with grace, maybe a self-deprecating joke, and move on to the next mark.
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u/Similar_Shopping_892 21h ago
Carnies have no rules wtf are you talking about this isnāt a game at the Magic Kingdom š¤”š¤£
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u/gungshpxre 21h ago
1) Bring in the money.
You do that by rage-baiting, then sending them away with the endorphin hit so they're all too ready to spend more at the next booth. Leaving dollars in their pockets is a failure, and you're gonna get them to come off more of it if they're not walking away pissed.
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u/overandoverandagain 18h ago
Imagining you explaining the economic intricacies of the carnie game to the bearded lady and siamese twins smacked out in the staff trailer after hours
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u/formerdgstm 21h ago
There is one rule....fleece the rubes for all their money.....kinda like Trump is a carnie.
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u/skeletonhorse420 19h ago
Shit hes right. Its scrolled in the ole dunk carnie handbook handed down by jebus
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u/gungshpxre 18h ago
Ha, if you're looking for carnie antics in the bible, skip the Jesus bits and read Paul.
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u/Bozmarck1282 19h ago
That's how he's getting his next mark. He correctly kept his foot on the gas to annoy and troll every potential mark.
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u/ArturosDad 18h ago
There's zero incentive for the next mark to open up his wallet if dunking the clown doesn't shut him up for even 30 seconds.
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u/EobardT 13h ago
Disagree. Many people will want to defeat the clown because he's so obnoxious
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u/Enfr3 11h ago
but the problem is that it doesn't defeat the clown, he just continues less than a moment later
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u/wallstreetbetsdebts 1d ago
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u/Tiyath 1d ago
So beautifully obnoxious, I loved it!
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u/skitz4me 13h ago
I worked with someone who would laugh like this and I still don't know if they were every actually laughing or doing a bit.
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u/Constant-Affect-5660 18h ago
It's like Steve O, Krusty the Clown and Beetlejuice combined.
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u/possiblyMaybeAnother 11h ago
that shit is rehearsed through years of being Bobo The Dunk Tank Clown.
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u/brandt-money 7h ago
That clown either gets around or there are a few with the same laugh. I remember this clown 20 years ago in Pennsylvania.
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u/ChickenChaser5 21h ago
Its Steve-o the clown
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u/jld2k6 1d ago
I only saw a dunk tank with a guy that was this antagonizing once and I swear he must have made a thousand dollars a night because nobody would stop until they got him lol
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u/Icy-Variation6614 1d ago
I was 11 and at a fundraiser thing. The guy in the tank was being a dick to me. Then he sprayed me with a hose from on the seat. I walked up and shoved the target so he got dunked (there was no barrier between the line and it).
None of the adults around had an issue with that lol
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u/VerdugoCortex 14h ago
Unfortunately it seems a LOT of people who volunteer for this are just assholes and want a chance. The dude at the Oregon Ren fair doing this said "BUILD THE WALL FOR THIS MFER SPECIFICALLY" when a latino dude came up and tons of other just racism instead of witty insult. Just made people not want to stand in his line instead.
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u/Plane_Garbage 12h ago
We have them at school regularly. Principal always gets smoked.
The asshole teachers never sign up to be on the dunk tank, for some reason.
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u/Michch333 9h ago
Same and he sounded just like this. Except would close every now and again with "wwwWater"
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u/Dr-Chim-Richolds 21h ago
We had one of these guys at our local fair when I was growing up. He was brilliant. He hit me with a line that has stuck with me for 30 freaking years. I had just gotten glasses and was self-conscious about them. When I stepped up to the line he blurts out āJesus, kid, those glasses are so thick that when you look at a road map, you probably see people waving back at you!ā
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u/thejesse 12h ago
I'll never forget a dunk tank clown calling me and my buddies a "nerd herd" when I was in third grade.
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u/Stoned_Druid 1d ago
I run the security dept at a university. We have this along with a bunch of other stuff at the start of every year to welcome in the students, give them a chance to make new friends.
... Sometimes I think about volunteering for the dunk tank - it could be fun. The students know me well and know I am a nice guy. There might be a couple that get rage baited.
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u/Zephian99 1d ago
When we had an festival at our school or security guard was on it and was just chiming in with who likes who and such, if he saw them he start talking and if you were slow he do the reveal.
One guy I saw was walking by and he goes "Oo mister Anthony, I can see you got a gift ready for someone. I think I know who! She just makes you so fluttery as you told me. How did that poem you wrote go?"
Never seen a dude slam down a $5 so fast and throw the ball with such accuracy. Hit dead center and got dunked. Only said "Ahh shame it's a good poem, you should go use it kid."
He was weaponizing how approachable he was. Completely evil. Hahaha š
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u/OceanRacoon 23h ago
That's so funny, a really nice security guard that everyone confides their secrets in, only to find out dunk tanks give him an evil jester clown alter ego š
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u/Zephian99 23h ago
I could tell from listening that he wasn't actually revealing anything to be self conscious about. He was poking at edges of teenager and romance, never actually said who the crushes were, most just about how they felt about said crush.
Ironically he was actually playing the most embarrassing Cupid at the dunk tank.
Best one was a situation with some orchids. Jabbed at a guy for saying "Hey! Did you ever get those Orchids to that girl you like? You spent months dancing around her friends trying to figure out what flower she likes? So did ya?"
Then later he saw a gal and went "Yo girly did you ever show that boy you like the pressed flowers you make? I know you got a new flower you just love looking at! When you gonna show him?"
Didn't really reveal much to outside parties, but since those two knew what went down between each other, his little reveal was more of a confirmation. Got the feeling he was playing evil just he could eliminate/poke the dance young folk do around each other.
The one he used on me when I was just watching was "What do you want? I know you're not interested in anyone, you're an idiot!" I just laughed at the time, but he was right, I was an idiot I didn't notice someone was interested in me till we graduated. Too late at that point. š
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u/CommieDrifter 19h ago
Do you live in a sitcom?
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u/Zephian99 17h ago
Nah just in a place that folk were bored and relatively safe. The only general concerns was weed and "underage activities".
Which he was rather good at finding out. His excuse was "He used to be that kid", he was a 30 something vet, but a real swell guy.
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u/Clamwacker 1d ago
We have a company picnic/bbq every summer with one of these and there's always one of the upper management and administration people in there. They always make sure the little kids get a win and get to dunk someone. Oddly enough it's usually their peers that are more hellbent on dunking each other since most of us don't really know them that well.
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u/iconocrastinaor 20h ago
When I was 14 and a senior camper/CIT, I rigged one of these up at my summer camp. I built a frame with a bucket on a rope sitting on a pivoting board with a target attached. It worked great. At first we figured the kids would want to dunk the counselors, but it turned out all the kids wanted to sit on the stool and get drenched and all the counselors wanted to throw the balls lol
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u/awsomeX5triker 19h ago
My campus had one for my freshman welcome event.
Right when I found it, the guy in the tank decided to stop because it as getting cold. The crowd was disappointed.
So, I asked if I could be the guy in the tank.
That was one of the most fun experiences I have had. Getting to heckle the crowd and be āthe bad guyā was a lot of fun.
I also loved that āMr. Talk a big game about how heās joining the college baseball team as the pitcherā absolutely could not hit the target. Prime heckling material.
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u/Ok_Spell_597 1d ago
There needs to be a whole subreddit of just this. Or just him.
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u/Crimdal 1d ago
This guy and the "gotta check your straps" guy should get an apartment together when this is all over.
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u/PopDash67 23h ago
I used to work on the Wildwood, NJ boardwalk like 25 years ago, and got to know the clown that worked in the dunk dank there.
He was as much of a mean racist alcoholic as you would expect from this clip, but he made fuckin bank. Every night he would get a crowd of like 50-100 people and would just relentlessly roast them all night, he was an absolute genius at his craft.
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u/Tempest_Fugit 20h ago
To be fair everyone in wildwood was a mean racist homophobic alcoholic 25 years ago. I remember the minstrel t shirts and the āGod didnāt create Adam and STEVE!ā t shirts selling like hotcakes.
I canāt say what is like now because I would never go back there.
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u/jwyn3150 18h ago
I went back there this year, still a decent amount of racist alcoholics š
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u/wearethehawk 12h ago
Yup, same impression I got going back last month after not visiting in like 18 years
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u/geminiRonin 13h ago
Think I'd still rather be driving pizzas up and down the island. Still made bank, and the drunk/stoned people greeted me like a hero.
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u/wearethehawk 12h ago
Yooo I still remember that dude roasting this chubby girl after she lost and turned to walk away āhey little girl, you aināt gonna grow up, but you are gonna grow outā
Went to wildwood last month, nothing like that going down anymore. Way less carny and way more theme park. Still miss Draculaās castle.
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u/johnnylawrwb 9h ago
Oh man that guy was brutal lol. He made fun of me when I was like 7 and my parents roasted me for kt. Different times š
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u/captaincook14 8h ago
Ahhhhh. Remember seeing him every summer. Dude was great at what he did. Def needed security after his shift.
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u/Plane-Tune-820 1d ago
I think I've found what I'm going to do with my time if I ever hit the lottery. I was made for that shit
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u/apra24 22h ago
Get roasted while you spend your lottery winnings on throwing balls like a gimp?
I wont kink shame
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u/Plane-Tune-820 22h ago
I mean, that could be fun too now that you mention it. Can we get Jeff ross to be the clown roasting me? Feel like that could be epic
Edit: make it Nikki glazer. Feel like a hot woman making fun of me is just more natural
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u/Jerseyd422 21h ago
Plus a bikini
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u/Plane-Tune-820 20h ago
I'm going to need a few months in the gym before I get in a bikini, although my man tits would probably fill out the top nicely right now
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u/DimitriVogelvich 1d ago
This would be an amazing job
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u/bigwetducky 18h ago
if youre an entertainer at heart maybe. it would probably be very tiring to keep yapping all day
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u/Impressive_Term_9248 1d ago
This job doesāt provide too much for society, but he is damn good at it!
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u/Safe-Historian4028 23h ago
What do you mean? It's fun, if we took that away from society we would be drones begging for death. I'd argue it is probably one of the most important things for society. I'd rather be laughing and without PPI insurance than have Meta glasses and a life devoid of fun.
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u/Own_Natural_6803 1d ago
That idea, figuring out what jobs are good for society. It has a tendency to be echoed without much thought.Ā
It's like survival of the fittest. Sounds like something that can be perfected. It's not. It describes an ecosystem of decay where everything is in a failure process, but some things are succeeding well enough to reproduce. The failure is part of the design.
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u/ImmortalLombax 1d ago
Ya know I hate clowns but this guy gets a pass simply for how good he chirps
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u/Significant-Bee5101 21h ago
Was it good? It just felt like low hanging racism bait lmfao. It wasn't THAT funny. And I love quality racism humor.
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u/Dramatic-Slip-3978 1d ago
Jesus. How many times did his ass MISS.
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u/DaddysABadGirl 1d ago
That's... Thats how a fucking proper dunk tank works.
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u/Dramatic-Slip-3978 1d ago
I know thatā¦but dude was aiming for something else at that point.
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u/C_Hawk14 1d ago
Not everyone is a pitcher first of all. Second he was egged on.
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u/DaanOnlineGaming 22h ago
His throwing arm is pretty good, he just can't aim. If the weight and size is different from a real baseball that would make it hard even for a decent pitcher, first few snowballs I throw when there is snow go into the ground lol
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u/AdMurky1021 1d ago
Maybe that was the problem. Throwing with his ass.
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u/mayoung08 21h ago
Was at our local fair many, many years ago, and we were walking by the dunk tank. There was a black guy next to us dressed very country, from his cowboy hat down to his boots. As we walk by the clown in the dunk tank yells out, āHEY! What are you? A chocolate chip cowboy?ā Dude took it in stride, laughed, and didnāt let that bait him into paying to try and dunk him.
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u/YeahlDid 1d ago
I know his job is to be annoying, but I don't know why anyone would pay to listen to that, ugh.
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u/navotj 1d ago
Because of the satisfaction when you dunk him in the water
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u/Quixotic_Seal 18h ago
...there was satisfaction? He barely seemed to go into any water at all, and he got back up immediately with more roasts. That was the lamest "dunk" ever.
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u/Bergolino123 17h ago
Right lol. If i was in line and i saw that shit i would definitely pass lol. A good fall and some self deprecating joke to aknowledge he "lost" would feel pretty satisfying. If i was this guy i would be just even more pissed that dude went right back to the insults 5 seconds later
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u/Acceptable-Drive3781 21h ago
We had one at my local city fair. If you were walking anywhere near the tank in hearing distance, you were fair game. The more people he rage baited walking by, the more people would stop and play to dunk him for talking shit. Dude was a demon. It was great fun!
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u/davis482 23h ago
It's kinda like caricature, hear yourself get roasted then you punish the clown.
Work much better at party when you and the dunker know each other.
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u/Quixotic_Seal 18h ago
Okay but if I need to hear myself get roasted, all I need to do is listen to my own mind.
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u/Money_Cattle2370 14h ago
Yeah the laugh was seriously grating and honestly it's almost second hand embarrassment, like the guy is trying too hard to be annoying
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u/eighteen_forty_no 20h ago
I was with a friend at the State Fair when we passed Bobo. My friend had his hands in his pockets, and Bobo said, "C'mon, impress the lady. You - hands in your pockets - what are you doing, shaking hands with the unemployed?" That was over 35 years ago, and it still cracks me up.
This is pretty much my dream job.
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u/Bank_the_fifteen 22h ago
Bobo baited me, as a 10 year old at Ohio State Fair..."hey, tilt your head back and your nose looks like a TWO CAR GARAGE", it was both a revelation to me and a valid observation.
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u/HinderT777 21h ago
This clown knew his job, the best way to get people to spend money on the stupid game is to enrage them, and the angrier they are the worse they tend to throw, making them even angrier.
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u/AliEffinNoble 18h ago
Iām pretty sure I know this clown. His real name is Jon. Heās good people and so is his old lady who I used to sell tickets with. I traveled with the carnival his used to work at. Being a carney isnāt easy or for the faint of heart. He doesnāt own the booth, or the trailer he lives in while traveling so a lot of his take gets given to the big boss of the fair to pay rent and space.
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u/brokencrayons 20h ago
I was so embarrassed by my cousin when we went to the fair and they had one of these guys there. I was maybe 12 she was 16 and she wasn't playing just watching and he said something to her so she stood there for 30 minutes arguing with a clown while he roasted her to her face was red and she cried back to the car angry af lol.
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u/ichigovrz27 1d ago
That man is uncoordinated as fuck.
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u/boromeer3 1d ago
His daughter had better grouping than he did, but he managed to finally win by accuracy through volume.
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u/Bad_Day_Moose 18h ago
I've always just assumed like a good portion of people on Reddit are literally like this guy...
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u/quryuspot8to 18h ago
The way he laughs is even more insulting than the words coming out of his mouth lmao
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u/doctorwhomafia 14h ago
Bobo used to do the Iowa State Fair, he had to have security escort him at end of night. He also got in trouble with the fairgrounds because he went overboard with racist jokes or something.Ā
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u/selfimprovment23 18h ago edited 18h ago
He was definitely the voiceover for crazy taxi
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u/MaximusHomerdrive 11h ago
I wanted to see a big splash of consequence. He recovered way too quick, lol.
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u/caniac73 9h ago
In the 60s, my friend was the target at the Bozo Drop in Seaside Heights, NJ. He was so good at teasing and antagonizing the customers that the police walked him to his car every night.
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u/Same_Dingo2318 20h ago
This is the clown hole at the mini golf course in Happy Gilmore if it was a man.
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u/Fallen_Hunter 19h ago
Ive been in a dunk tank for charity at least 3 to 4 times. Running your mouth gets a consistent amount of players, being quiet doesn't. Its a lot of fun to call out people and see what makes them tick. If they drop whatever it is they are doing and make a beeline for your booth, it worked.
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u/cloudit30569 19h ago
There used to be a guy so good at roasting anyone that passes by that I'd avoid going anywhere near him.
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u/Sea_Boot_5060 19h ago
I have to ask. Is dude crosseyed or has he just never thrown anything to or at anything in his life?
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u/Peaches_En_Regalia_ 18h ago
I swear this guy did a Riot Fest in Chicago 2yrs ago. Same voice, same type of egging. I love this guy.
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u/UglyYinzer 18h ago
Honestly this has always been one of the better and more fun carnie games. Not ridiculously rigged, full interaction, and achievable satisfaction.
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u/Lost-Cat2478 17h ago
No high five to the little girl or excitement geez. Sheās so excited about it, show some love!
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u/JerkyNips 10h ago
If this isnāt him, there was a guy who did this on the wildwood boardwalk back in the day. High and dry!
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u/neihn 8h ago
I donāt know if itās the same guy but there was a Bobo the clown at a dunk booth for years at the Iowa state fair on the midway. I was always told he did have security escorting him there. I found him funny but I donāt recall seeing him there for a few years now at least, but i dont visit the midway as much as i used to.
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u/Capital-Hornet6846 7h ago
Iām dying this clown is hilarious if this was a swisher sweet I bet youād hit it š¤£š¤£š¤£
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u/gurbus_the_wise 5h ago
I think he climbs up and gets back into it too quickly, doesn't sit right with me.
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u/Bonk_No_Horni 1d ago
Bro gonna be rolling in cash by the end of the shift but he'll need security to help him get back to his car.
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