# Are carnival workers actually "shady?"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-carnival-workers-actually-shady/459561>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 11, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-carnival-workers-actually-shady/459561 "2008-08-11T02:52:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-carnival-workers-actually-shady/459561/21 "2008-08-12T00:19:20Z")

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[QUOTE=BellRungBookShut-CandleSnuffed]  
Nuclear physicist?  
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Heh. You say that like you don’t know my former friend, the nuclear physicist who was a meth head wife beater.

Seriously.

I suppose fields like “school bus driver” or “preschool teacher” which do criminal background checks might weed out more of the unsavories than carnivals, but some of them always slip through, don’t they?

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**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-carnival-workers-actually-shady/459561/22 "2008-08-12T02:12:53Z")

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[“What about the carny code?”](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/5F08)

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