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Message: [QUOTE="RichZ, post: 5311772, member: 534"] I worked for the mob. Early '60s, I delivered the Bridgeport Sporting News -- aka the [I]Scratch Sheet --[/I] a "newspaper" the sole purpose of which was to deliver [B]the number[/B]. My route was the East End of Bridgeport. Funny, how you could ride your bike down the street in some really seedy neighborhoods with a hundred bucks or more in your pocket -- a lot more if some customer of one of the bars, barbershops or diners on your route hit the number big and was feeling generous -- and never get robbed or even bothered. It was a while before I realized that we were [I]protected[/I] by the mob as well as the police. I did that for a couple years, and some years later, the whole operation disappeared when the state legalized gambling and started running their own numbers racket. [/QUOTE]