Chumlee the old Man is going to be pissed

PAWN STARS goes UP IN SMOKE as the main attraction is taken down on drug and gun charges

at least the JAIL LAS VEGAS SHOW will have a good episode coming up

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/las-vegas/chumlee-pawn-stars-arrested-drug-gun-charges

Thanks for the post. Interestingly (or not), this reality show is not based on reality. Once, a guy went in to sell a Fender guitar - and the guy that came into appraise it pretended to not know the seller. Turns out they work together at a guitar shop.

I know it would be...problematic for a film crew to just film every attempt by someone to pawn something and hope for something halfway interesting, but recruiting for an interesting pawn seems a little cheesy.

Is there any doubt that Pawn Stars is almost entirely contrived now?

I hope they film lots of episodes while he is in jail.

Quote: Wizard

Is there any doubt that Pawn Stars is almost entirely contrived now?

Was there ever any doubt? It is (WAS?) a good show regardless.

American pickers is good to. PLEASE Don't say it's staged as well. Let me have my illusion.

I would love to be a picker... I have always liked doing stuff like that.

When I was in about 6th grade I lived in Washington state. Close to my house there was an old abandon house near the woods. The house sat vacant for many months. I would sneak in and look around. It was kinda dark and spooky, especially just after watching the exorcist. And the fact that my mother was always going on about the Green River murderer and all the serial killers that seemed to originate from nearby. I wouldn't stay long because my imagination eventually got to me.

It looked as if an old semi organize horder once lived in the house, but there wasn't a lot newspapers and garbage all stacked up. It was full of collectibles and interesting stuff including old interments, books, coca cola stuff, stamp books, military items and everything you could imagine.

Eventually I started bringing home small Items(I remember taking an old obscenely engraved Zippo that got me in trouble for multiple reasons) I knew some of it had value, I didn't realize just how much the stuff could've been worth(obviously not like nowadays). If only we had Pawn stars or the internet back then.

I hid the stuff, but my mom eventually found it(dam dog). She yelled and said it was stealing. She told me I better contact the owners before going back. Honestly I don't think she cared about the stuff she just didn't want me going in there. Of course I didn't listen, she was being unreasonable because no one wanted the stuff or cared.

Talk about a bad beat. I ended up serious breaking my arm(got 3 surgeries) on a very dangerous hillside rope swing that was on the property after collecting more stuff.(She said God was punishing me for not listening*rolls eyes)

That was that. My mom called the city heath department and everyone she could think of. Soon after the fire department cut down the rope swing and used the house as a house fire training exercise. I'm not sure whatever happened to the stuff inside or if they just burned it with everything.

There went all my treasure.

Quote: AxelWolf

I would love to be a picker... I have always liked doing stuff like that.

I have no idea what sort of things you'd like to pick through - but my father passed away 7 years ago; I put an ad on Craig's List and some old fellow and his wife came with a large truck and cleared away about 30% of it - leaving behind a stack of $100's.

I still have countless boat parts - chrome, cushions, gallons of acetone, and some of the ugliest tools I've ever seen. A lot of tool boxes too, also ugly. Some shiny stuff, too. I'd love to sell it all. Some I would even give away. You're welcome to pick through it all - an old flag for some company I've never heard of, a 3 foot doll my grandmother owned, a large military crate - used to ship my dad's stuff home, I guess. Or maybe it's just painted military green, I really have no idea.

I'm just about ready to call 1-800 got junk and have them clear it all out.

"American pickers is good to. PLEASE Don't say it's staged as well. Let me have my illusion. "

Sorry, most of the good stuff is planted beforehand.

It's all fake - there was a pawn stars episode where they brought it Bernie madoffs watch the guy claimed to want to sleep it however here is the kick. It was Steven bonner who is the general manager of Seminole coconut creek and the watch was for a giveaway- it wasn't even his to sell- he got called by the show when they heard the casino bought the watch.. The whole thing was staged- not only that I made the mistake of going there one time and realized they have almost nothing from the show on the shelves

Quote: Skeptic

"American pickers is good to. PLEASE Don't say it's staged as well. Let me have my illusion. " ...

Dick move Skeptic. Dick move. He's probably just making it up and trolling anyways, Axel =P

Quote: Romes

Dick move Skeptic. Dick move. He's probably just making it up and trolling anyways, Axel =P

I saw it happen once. 18 times in a row.

Those shows are interesting, Pawn Stars & American Pickers....but I think I'm a little burnt out of those shows. It is/was on every-single-f***ing-day in the break room at work (dealer). I swear every episode of American Pickers is the same...or else I can't tell the difference. Fortunately, sometimes someone would change the channel to Family Feud, Jeopardy, or that one game-show where they guess letters and words and stuff.

Quote: AxelWolf

I hid the stuff, but my mom eventually found it(dam dog).

I'm assuming your family pet (dog) found your treasure hidden in your room? Or were you calling your mom a...?

I used to be big in to the Storage Wars/etc where they bid on abandoned storage lockers/containers/rooms and then would find cool stuff. I literally stopped watching it after it became public they were all staged. =( What a let down.

A lot of the stuff on the show Rick just
pretends to buy. People bring in the
prize of their collection and pretend
to sell it just so they can be on TV.

A real pawn shop would never even
look at 90% of the stuff on Pawn Stars.
I believe the only reality show that's
not scripted is the oldest one, Cops.
It's also the cheapest to make. Go
into a city and put a cameraman in
5 different cop cars for a week and
hope enough happens to make a
show. No stars to pay, no directors
to pay, no crew to pay.

All Reality Shows are not fake, at least Jon Gosselin did have all those kids! And now he is DJ'ing at Hollywood Casino in PA.

http://hollywoodatpenn.com/2016/03/01/jon-gosselin-father-of-eight-dj-by-fate/

And would hope Chumlee would make enough to stay away from Meth.

Quote: Boz

All Reality Shows are not fake,

They're all fake in this way: They're structured
by the production company. They tell the
'reality' stars what to do and how to act. In
that way, the show is scripted without
actually using a physical script.

If they didn't do this, it would be a mess. The
'actors' would have no idea what to do, where
to stand, what to say. They're shows about
real businesses or real families or real professions,
but the rest is faked to get the most melodrama
out of every show.

Quote: AxelWolf

Was there ever any doubt? It is (WAS?) a good show regardless.

American pickers is good to. PLEASE Don't say it's staged as well. Let me have my illusion.

I would love to be a picker... I have always liked doing stuff like that.

When I was in about 6th grade I lived in Washington state. Close to my house there was an old abandon house near the woods. The house sat vacant for many months. I would sneak in and look around. It was kinda dark and spooky, especially just after watching the exorcist. And the fact that my mother was always going on about the Green River murderer and all the serial killers that seemed to originate from nearby. I wouldn't stay long because my imagination eventually got to me.

It looked as if an old semi organize horder once lived in the house, but there wasn't a lot newspapers and garbage all stacked up. It was full of collectibles and interesting stuff including old interments, books, coca cola stuff, stamp books, military items and everything you could imagine.

Eventually I started bringing home small Items(I remember taking an old obscenely engraved Zippo that got me in trouble for multiple reasons) I knew some of it had value, I didn't realize just how much the stuff could've been worth(obviously not like nowadays). If only we had Pawn stars or the internet back then.

I hid the stuff, but my mom eventually found it(dam dog). She yelled and said it was stealing. She told me I better contact the owners before going back. Honestly I don't think she cared about the stuff she just didn't want me going in there. Of course I didn't listen, she was being unreasonable because no one wanted the stuff or cared.

Talk about a bad beat. I ended up serious breaking my arm(got 3 surgeries) on a very dangerous hillside rope swing that was on the property after collecting more stuff.(She said God was punishing me for not listening*rolls eyes)

That was that. My mom called the city heath department and everyone she could think of. Soon after the fire department cut down the rope swing and used the house as a house fire training exercise. I'm not sure whatever happened to the stuff inside or if they just burned it with everything.

There went all my treasure.

Wow, Axel, I am seriously feeling sad for your loss. I've been involved with a couple of "estate sales" and there is always something someone is willing to pay a surprising amount of money for. Burning it up just seems like such a waste.

Quote: Wizardofnothing

It's all fake - there was a pawn stars episode where they brought it Bernie madoffs watch the guy claimed to want to sleep it however here is the kick. It was Steven bonner who is the general manager of Seminole coconut creek and the watch was for a giveaway- it wasn't even his to sell- he got called by the show when they heard the casino bought the watch.. The whole thing was staged- not only that I made the mistake of going there one time and realized they have almost nothing from the show on the shelves

The time I stopped in, they had lots of stuff that was featured on the show. It all had super sky-high price tags, like $15,000 for a $500 Evil Knievel pinball machine. The bowling ball cannon was still in the middle of the floor. I thought it was cool. The girl at the register ringing up my Chum bobblehead said they make all their money from t-shirts nowadays.

Quote: AxelWolf

Was there ever any doubt? It is (WAS?) a good show regardless.

American pickers is good to. PLEASE Don't say it's staged as well. Let me have my illusion.
.

Here's how AP works. People send pics of their
stuff to the shows producers and details about it.
If the show is interested, they send a person
to scout the situation. If it looks interesting,
they'll schedule a date for Rick and Frank to
shoot there.

You know those scenes where they ride around
and look for stuff in people's yards and get
'lucky' sometimes? Completely set up in advance.
And just like PS, they often fake buying some
of the more expensive items, just for the
melodrama.

How do I know all this? Reading articles on the
net. All you have to do is look. Frank and Mike
often show up separately and pretend they
came in the van for the cameras. The woman
who runs the Iowa store is only there for
filming, she actually lives in Chicago. It's true
that Frank and Mike went to school together,
but they weren't pickers together. Frank worked
as a fire dept inspector for 25 years in Davenport.

Mike was a picker and is the brains and drive behind
the show. He's also executive producer. I watch
because they find some neat stuff and Mike is an
encyclopedia of knowledge. It's a good show, but
it's 100% set up. The store Mike has in Nashville is
nothing but a tourist trap. They have stuff from the
show, but it's either not for sale or has a price 10
times what it's worth. They do have tons of crappy
show related items to buy. T shirts, caps, key chains,
mugs, you name it.

Swamp people isn't staged. Everyone knows you choot gators in slow motion.

Quote: mcallister3200

Swamp people isn't staged. Everyone knows you choot gators in slow motion.

The big foot conspiracy people must not be staged either... as they've had zero sightings in X seasons. My brother had it on once because it made me angry that it was just a complete joke. Zero evidence, zero proof, but all these overweight guys doin "squatch calls" basically howling at the moon in the dead of night. Like one of those ghost shows they'd be like "omg I got something here!" and it always turns out to be zero. Even though EVERY guy on the show has seen a squatch, just NEVER on camera.

Quote: Romes

The big foot conspiracy people must not be staged either

I watched that show once. They hung a
bunch of fruit high up on wires in a tree,
that no other animals except BF could
reach. Next morning all the fruit was
gone! Proof! Of course they had no
night vision camera set up to record it,
that would have been too easy.

Quote: EvenBob

I watched that show once. They hung a
bunch of fruit high up on wires in a tree,
that no other animals except BF could
reach. Next morning all the fruit was
gone! Proof! Of course they had no
night vision camera set up to record it,
that would have been too easy.

Bigfoot doesn't show up on night vision. Although I think it won't show up on day vision neither.....

Just like the Loch Ness monster, although it does pop up every now and then to ask me for tree fiddy.

My buddy LID once played craps with bigfoot in Vegas. He said bigfoot tossed 19 yoes in a row! You can't make that up.

Can we please get a suspension here for high jacking

Quote: ukaserex

I still have gallons of acetone, .

GET rid of that stuff bad bad bad


http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/acetone.htm


Potential Health Effects
Eye: Produces irritation, characterized by a burning sensation, redness, tearing, inflammation, and possible corneal injury.
Skin: Exposure may cause irritation characterized by redness, dryness, and inflammation.
Ingestion: May cause irritation of the digestive tract. May cause central nervous system depression, kidney damage, and liver damage. Symptoms may include: headache, excitement, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, stupor, and coma. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause central nervous system depression, characterized by excitement, followed by headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and nausea. Advanced stages may cause collapse, unconsciousness, coma and possible death due to respiratory failure.
Inhalation: Inhalation of high concentrations may cause central nervous system effects characterized by nausea, headache, dizziness, unconsciousness and coma. Causes respiratory tract irritation. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause motor incoordination and speech abnormalities.
Chronic: Prolonged or repeated skin contact may cause dermatitis. Chronic inhalation may cause effects similar to those of acute inhalation.

Now after that description there will surely be people out there saying "where can I get a hit o' dat, c'mon, how much, man?"

Quote: coilman

GET rid of that stuff bad bad bad


http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/acetone.htm


Potential Health Effects
Eye: Produces irritation, characterized by a burning sensation, redness, tearing, inflammation, and possible corneal injury.
Skin: Exposure may cause irritation characterized by redness, dryness, and inflammation.
Ingestion: May cause irritation of the digestive tract. May cause central nervous system depression, kidney damage, and liver damage. Symptoms may include: headache, excitement, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, stupor, and coma. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause central nervous system depression, characterized by excitement, followed by headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and nausea. Advanced stages may cause collapse, unconsciousness, coma and possible death due to respiratory failure.
Inhalation: Inhalation of high concentrations may cause central nervous system effects characterized by nausea, headache, dizziness, unconsciousness and coma. Causes respiratory tract irritation. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause motor incoordination and speech abnormalities.
Chronic: Prolonged or repeated skin contact may cause dermatitis. Chronic inhalation may cause effects similar to those of acute inhalation.

Nothing to read here. Move along.

Quote: coilman

GET rid of that stuff bad bad bad


http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/acetone.htm


Potential Health Effects
Eye: Produces irritation, characterized by a burning sensation, redness, tearing, inflammation, and possible corneal injury.
Skin: Exposure may cause irritation characterized by redness, dryness, and inflammation.
Ingestion: May cause irritation of the digestive tract. May cause central nervous system depression, kidney damage, and liver damage. Symptoms may include: headache, excitement, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, stupor, and coma. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause central nervous system depression, characterized by excitement, followed by headache, dizziness, drowsiness, and nausea. Advanced stages may cause collapse, unconsciousness, coma and possible death due to respiratory failure.
Inhalation: Inhalation of high concentrations may cause central nervous system effects characterized by nausea, headache, dizziness, unconsciousness and coma. Causes respiratory tract irritation. May cause liver and kidney damage. May cause motor incoordination and speech abnormalities.
Chronic: Prolonged or repeated skin contact may cause dermatitis. Chronic inhalation may cause effects similar to those of acute inhalation.

Smoking just one cigarette is probably worse.

Acetone is in nail polish remover and it's good for getting superglue off the skin.

Quote: DrawingDead

Now after that description there will surely be people out there saying "where can I get a hit o' dat, c'mon, how much, man?"

At work, we actually refer to acetone as "happy juice!"

He had a stripper pole in his house!

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/03/15/chumlee-pawn-stars-fame-had-12-handguns-and-vault-with-narcotics/

Quote: rushdl

He had a stripper pole in his house!

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2016/03/15/chumlee-pawn-stars-fame-had-12-handguns-and-vault-with-narcotics/

Who doesn't? (Yeah, get that image out of your head. I double-dog dare ya.)

Quote:

...and a rolled up $1 bill with...

He's doing it wrong.

I think that PAWN STARS is just fake!

Quote: Amelie

I think that PAWN STARS is just fake!

Speaking of Fake.

The Arrest report...........

http://mediaassets.ktnv.com/document/2016/03/15/DOC031516-03152016095027_1458066332162_34083064_ver1.0.pdf?_ga=1.143024245.1364747746.1458074252