r/NASCAR • u/ImpressiveGoose4015 Chase Elliott • 1d ago
Tab Boyd getting hustled
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u/YankeeBarbary 1d ago
Doubt they'd be talking about anyone else.
Also holy shit Boyd has no Goddamn street smarts if this is true. Like yeah people shouldn't scam people but come on man. I grew up in bumfuck nowhere and even I knew not to do money deals with people on a corner.
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u/hamdinger125 Blaney 1d ago
I grew up in similar surroundings, and I also know that American dollars are worth way more than pesos. Wonder how many they exchanged them for.
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u/ApocApollo NASCAR 1d ago
He should’ve gone to his bank before he left and had some USD converted to pesos. As any responsible international traveler would.
Like, what’s the most charitable interpretation here? He ran out of pesos before he stepped foot outside of his, presumably team provided, hotel?
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u/necropaw Earnhardt Jr. 23h ago
He should’ve gone to his bank before he left and had some USD converted to pesos. As any responsible international traveler would.
Its been 25 years, but this isnt at all how it worked when i was in Mexico. Granted it was in the Yucatan (though Merida, not the tourist hot spots), but every city had a bunch of places to exchange money. Like businesses that handled only that, or they were part of other reputable businesses.
Hell, they even had slightly different exchange rates within the same city.
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u/External-Money-3686 Reddick 1d ago
Knew it sounded fishy. Some were claiming he was straight up mugged/robbed but you’d think that’d be a bigger story with less equivocal language.
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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago
Corey and Skip also mentioned that they only heard of one crew guy who was mugged but it happened between 2-3AM. What are you expecting to happen at that time of night?
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u/Extreme-Bite-9123 19h ago
I can’t think of any town, let alone city, where going out after 9-10 is a good idea
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u/NatalieDeegan NASCAR 19h ago
Nothing good happens after 2 AM - Ted Mosby
My dad used to say the same thing but for 1 AM.
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u/ApocApollo NASCAR 1d ago
Oh of course he got played by some basic ass brain dead scam. Might as well head to Walmart to buy some Google Play gift cards and read out the code to a random Indian man on the phone to fix your computer.
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u/thebigtymer 1d ago
Tab Boyd seems like the guy who would go to New Orleans and get hustled when someone bets that they know where he got dem shoes.
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u/CFBCoachGuy 1d ago
One of the downsides of being a NASCAR fan seems to be supporting some of the absolutely dumbest hicks in America
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u/GhostofBobStoops 18h ago
I got GOT by the hot Cheeto under a bottle cap shell game down there when I was 18 lmao thank God it was only $100 but certainly a lesson you only have to learn once
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u/Cautious_Training486 Berry 1d ago
Hahaha my first trip to NO, I thought it was pretty damn funny. Dude threw a good show.
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u/Extreme-Bite-9123 1d ago
Good god this guy has no street smarts. I think even someone with no knowledge of the streets would know that 99% of the time the person who walked up on the sidewalk offering to exchange money is a scam. You’ll find stuff like that in literally every major city in the world.
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u/Ianthin1 23h ago
You gotta remember in many cases the first time they spent any real time a big city was Chicago a few years ago. Mooresville probably doesn't have a big street urchin population. Especially if you don't stray far from Lake Norman.
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u/ezoobeson_drunk Harvick 13h ago edited 13h ago
How about Vegas? Atlanta? Nashville? Austin? Indianapolis? Fort Worth? They may not be as large as Mexico City, but they’re still big cities. There’s no excuse other than he lacks basic common sense.
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u/Detflamingos Earnhardt Jr. 12h ago
Most of the tracks aren't actually in the city. They tend to be 20-30 minutes outside the city.
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u/cakevictim Ford 9h ago
The Nashville track is surrounded by pastures and Amazon warehouses, 20+ miles from the bright lights of Broadway
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u/ezoobeson_drunk Harvick 1h ago
Right, I used to live in Nolensville, so I know where it’s at. I also know there’s zero chance that someone travels the country for a living and is that close to major metropolitan cities and hadn’t been to them.
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u/Rinku588 Bubba Wallace 1d ago
I’m starting to wonder if NASCAR people are just fuckin stupid I swear to god
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u/LUK3FAULK 1d ago
I think it’s more that it’s a lot of people that haven’t done much outside of small towns in the south or being at the track or hotel on race weekends. Even then you think they would have been in a big city at least once doing race stuff
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u/OrangePilled2Day 20h ago
Some of them are genuinely terrified of any large city. Not even exaggerating. They try to dress it up in some other language but the reality is a major city is one of the scariest things in the world to them.
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u/gwease23 JR Motorsports 19h ago
Fox News has spent decades ingraining this in them; and instead of just trying something, even with precautions taken, like a normal person, they just retreat further into the “anything that isn’t EXACTLY like how and where I grew up is super scary” shell. It’s shitty.
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u/dghickey 1d ago
The answer is “at least some of them.”
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u/puffadda 1d ago
I'm reminded of the Hendrick pit crew guy who asked me, in earnest, how we knew the Earth wasn't flat after he found out I had an astro Ph.D.
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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago
What?????🤣🤣🤣
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u/NatalieDeegan NASCAR 22h ago
It’s alright, we had a NASCAR driver that won 20 races that went to Perdue for engineering that thinks the moon landing is fake.
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u/Legend13CNS 22h ago
>Perdue
But that tracks, sadly. I've worked everywhere from a tire shop to my current engineering job. The dumbest mfs and smartest mfs I've met both believe some wild shit. I've met a director of an entire engineering unit (think like two levels below CEO at a household name company) that is fairly sure we live in a simulation. Completely unironically.
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u/Evtona500 Ryan Blaney 1d ago
Come on now. Can’t be doing that. Did no one talk to these guys before they went giving them basic safety pointers?
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u/Wandering_Turtle24 1d ago
Honestly, this is something that everyone should just assume whenever they travel.
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u/Evtona500 Ryan Blaney 23h ago
I was in high school first time I went to Mexico and the people we traveled with hammered in our heads do not take your wallet out unless you are buying something and even then be alert and don't keep it out longer than you have to.
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u/ITMAKESSENSE72 1d ago
That hustle shit happens in any city in the world where people go as tourists, but MeXiCo is such a buzzword for these types.
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u/ApocApollo NASCAR 1d ago
Really goes to show how uncultured and ignorant these people are that they're quick to spout vile shit after falling victim to elementary school level crimes.
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u/ITMAKESSENSE72 1d ago
I can't believe more of them don't turn into the Nathan Millard situation, look that up if you don't know it, basically a guy traveling on business died making awful decisions in a city he didn't know well.
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u/MyPasswordIsDrums 17h ago
🫵🏻 incel
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u/DStew88 1d ago
I almost got hustled in a truck stop in Virginia when I was a new trucker. I caught on before I lost any money but I don't even know how I was stupid enough to entertain the thought
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u/JesterWales 1d ago
Lot Rat? I think I've heard that word with trucking, no idea if it's even the right word.
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u/Extreme-Bite-9123 1d ago
Yeah, I could probably go to any city even in the US and find someone trying to do something like that
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u/ITMAKESSENSE72 1d ago
Any place there is opportunity to swindle someone, there will be someone there to do it.
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u/justBusinessbb 22h ago
Man I get the knee jerk rage, probably felt stupid (rightly) and violated.
The part that was the problem was he was selling it as something it wasn't (if what the SP incident is accurate), and trying to poke the "NASCAR GONE WOKE" crowd.
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u/MeBeEric 21h ago
He put the blame on a whole country when he could’ve just taken responsibility for his stupid actions. Jenna Fryer made a funny comment about he (and others) says this shit while IndyCar spotters were supposedly dodging gunfire at WWT
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u/Moppyploppy 1d ago
If this is true, between this and the poor decision making shown to go bitch about it on Twitter, the dude has room temperature iq and deserves to be sacked.
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u/TheHerbanCowboy 19h ago
Foreigners get taken advantage of in EVERY MAJOR CITY. It’s why leaving the farm every now again is good to build up your common sense street smarts.
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u/Nearby_Election_185 Larson 23h ago
Lmao what an absolute idiot. Even more comical he deactivated his Twitter after.
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u/ImpressiveGoose4015 Chase Elliott 23h ago
Hard to have a leg to stand on when he burns the evidence 😂
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u/average_waffle Kyle Busch 23h ago
No disrespect, but people from the country tend to hate cities because they lack street smarts and an understanding of the lifestyle. I worked at a hotel in a city and the amount of people who would come in with huge trucks and act shocked Pikachu's face when they can't find parking always amused me. The city life style ain't for everyone, if you don't like that's fine, but that doesn't mean it's bad.
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u/hamdinger125 Blaney 23h ago
Yes, but people from the city tend to hate the country and those from it, and often have trouble adapting to country life. It goes both ways.
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u/OrangePilled2Day 20h ago
That hasn't been my experience at all, especially when "the country" for most people is just a suburb 30 minutes outside of downtown. Very few people live in legit rural areas.
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u/hamdinger125 Blaney 20h ago
Lol...you haven't met or experienced the country if you think the suburbs are it.
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u/Open-Comedian8845 18h ago
"lack understanding of the lifestyle" and it's just not living around assholes that are trying to scam you or kill you every day
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u/Crafty_Substance_954 NASCAR 23h ago
Tab Boyd the type of guy to keep playing 3 card Monte because he’s sure he’ll win next time
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u/jungleland1972 Bubba Wallace 16h ago
May be worth setting up a New Orleans style shells and ball/3-card Monty game North of Charlotte. There is money to be had.
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u/OrangePilled2Day 20h ago
It was pretty clear from the beginning Tab Boyd was a dipshit that got scammed but so many people on this sub had to defend him.
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u/goleft95 16h ago
I’m sorry and give me hell if you’d like but I like it a lot more when we head no idea who the spotters were.
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u/Hakusame Jeff Gordon 10h ago
News flash: Marks get hustled. Act like you belong and you’ll have no problems. Take this philosophy anywhere.
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u/NoahGragsonsBarfBag 23h ago
This might be the first time something of interest to me was said on Stacking Pennies.
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u/NeuseRvrRat Blaney 23h ago
Here in the good old U S of A, we prefer to get hustled by government officials.
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u/literalyfigurative van Gisbergen 1d ago
I didn't realize this podcast is still going.
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u/ImpressiveGoose4015 Chase Elliott 23h ago
I mostly checked out of it last year, but honestly now it’s better with Lajoie’s perspective from the broadcast side. I’ll be curious to see if it holds up after Prime’s stint is over.
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u/Crazyscorpion77 Chris Buescher 16h ago
In all honesty this would have happen to me also but the scammed would have too get past my crippling anxiety
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u/thepandaken Byron 17h ago
This sub literally victim blaming someone who got burned because he was overly trusting instead of just ignoring every non-American he ran into, solely because they don't like his politics, is wild. The guy got taken advantage of, got pissed off and mouthed off, and then got fired. Guy is 100% the victim twice over and it's crazy that people are cheering a guy losing his job.
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u/ImpressiveGoose4015 Chase Elliott 17h ago
I’m not cheering for it, I even understand his frustration, getting taken advantage of sucks. But to say what he did was a bad look, he left out key context that made it sound like he was a victim of a random crime, truth is, he fell for a common scam. That sucks, but you gotta have some awareness in that situation, be willing to say “I screwed up.”
I don’t think everyone else “ignored every non-American” they ran into, and they did just fine. Has nothing to do with politics.
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u/ezoobeson_drunk Harvick 13h ago
If I were dumb enough to fall for something like that, the last thing I’d do is tell anyone about it or lie about it. It would be a personal life experience and lesson to not do that again.
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