The boardwalk shtick here seems to be a scam where you bet the guy whether you can stand up a beer bottle using a metal ring hanging from the end of a cord tied to a short stick. The bottle rests on its side on a slanted board, and using the ring at the end of the little fishing rod you have to get the bottle upright on the board. The carny does it over and over to make you think it's easy, and the suckers don't realize that he's not in business because it is easy. I saw two guys working this scam on the boardwalk. In Tel Aviv, the shtick was "which cup is the ball under" as the guy whisks a trio of inverted plastic cups across a tabletop at amazing speed, swapping hands and shooting the ball from cup to cup.
I reiterate my earlier statement--Eilat really is like Wildwood NJ, but all the signs are in Hebrew and Russian, and they have tropical fish off the jetties.
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That bottle thing is a total scam. The bottle is weighted more on one side than the other. The carny sets it one side up for himself and other side up for you. No matter how careful you are, you will be able to do it.
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