Fishermen nearly won a tournament. Then weights were found in the fish.

Althea said:
When there is so much money on the line, it should be very hard to cheat.
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Something is lost when one must assume that the other players would cheat.....civilizations run on trust....where there is no trust there is no civility.
 
ExpressLane said:
Jason Fischer knew the two fishermen needed their catch to weigh in at about 16 pounds to secure the team-of-the-year award at a competition in Cleveland on Friday. Eyeballing their entry, the tournament director figured they were about to easily clear that mark with five fish he estimated would come in at about 20 pounds.

When the scale nearly hit 34 pounds, he grew suspicious.

“It just kind of deflated me, because I just knew it wasn’t right,” Fischer, the director and owner of the Lake Erie Walleye Trail fishing tournament, told The Washington Post.
Fischer grabbed one of the fish, ran his hand over its stomach and squeezed. He felt something hard — too hard.

Fischer sliced open the dead walleye and plunged his hand into its flesh. He rooted around until he found what he hoped he wouldn’t find.

“We got weights in fish!” he yelled, holding one of 10 steel-gray, egg-sized weights that would be pulled from the entry.

Then, Fischer disqualified the two-man team that had submitted the entry.......

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/10/03/fishing-tournament-cheating-weights-walleye/
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These guys won multiple tournaments and won tens of thousands of dollars and prizes in the year before this tournament. Things almost got violent when they were caught cheating.
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If you ain't cheatin' you ain't tryin'.
 
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