A Carowinds employee was arrested over the weekend, accused of helping someone win a stuffed animal.

Joshua Long, 19, is charged with brea... Click here to read more...

Oops.

Totally curious as to how they busted the guy. Surveillance?

I'm sure the bigwigs would have just put him on probation if the prize value was like $5, but a giant stuffed animal valued at over $109? (More than a days worth of salary for a SF employee). He had it comin!

He let them win the giant banana?

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Valued at $109.00 by WHO? If you think they're paying that for the prizes, you're gullible.

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They probably only paid $10 for it at most if it was a giant Scooby.

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It reminds me of a scene from Adventureland (2009). A veteran of the park's Games department is showing the protagonist the ropes, and finishes one summary of a game with something to the extend of "...if somebody wins a big-ass panda, don't bother showing up to work the next day." Damn, I forgot the exact quote.

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^ LOL. I forgot all about that in Adventureland.

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This is funny because as a former employee of Carowinds, I do remember hearing something about Games employees getting into trouble if too many of the huge prizes were won by the guests.

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That's close to what I make in a week.

I don't know how Carowinds handles employees and games, but at SFOG we're not allowed to play games at all. I want to know how he helped the person win. Some of those games are impossible to win.

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^ Holy cow, what's the minimum wage in Georgia right now? In a WEEK?

Anyway those midway games are rigged in the parks' favor. I never play them.

Minimum wage is $6.55/hour. I only work about 5 hrs a day, 4-5 days a week, minus taxes, comes out to about $130-$145, so it's close to that number. My last two paychecks were $98 and $146.

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I worked at the Frontier City park (owned by Six Flags by then) back when $5.15 was minimum wage, and I still made more than $210 a week after taxes (take-home) and even with lunch breaks counted out. Yeah I worked a lot of hours, but that came with being a lead.

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