Golden Mile - for crooks

Tourists conned in hoopla scam

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Hoopla stall which has been prosecuted for conning customers by Blackpool Council

26 May 2010

By Paul Fielding

CONMEN have been targeting unsuspecting holidaymakers on Blackpool's world-famous Golden Mile.

In a legal first, the owner and operator of a hoopla stall on the Promenade has been dragged before the courts accused of ripping off tourists and residents.

Blackpool Magistrates Court heard how the council's trading standards officers raided the premises and confiscated equipment, which was then set up at Lancaster University under laboratory conditions.

There Dr David Lucy was given the task of testing the probability of winning the challenge and worked out the odds of winning were 2,622 to one against.