Zeb, the scalpers during the 2010 World Series ripped-off so many people for anywhere from $300 to $1,500, as I was THERE 10 feet from the ticket windows when families were showing up with Giant's personnel after having their fake tickets scanned at the Willy Mays Plaza entrance, only to find that they were counterfeit, purchased from scalpers at the corner 5 minutes earlier. Those same scalpers were shoving all the people in 5 Will-Call ticket window lines out of the way, pushing, cussing and threatening kids, families, AND Giants (female) staff to try and buy returned tickets so they could scalp them. They were telling the uniformed cops, fans in line, and the staff to go "F" themselves. The same guys repeated this every 30 minutes from 4 to 7 PM. They were basically ALLOWED to do anything they wanted and KNEW they could get away with it.
ONLY ONE ticket during the 7 hours I waiting as 1st in line at the barricade was ever released for sale. A lady turned around 3 feet in front of me to offer me the ticket, and a BIG NFL lineman sized scalper came in out of "nowhere", grabbed the ticket from her hand, gave her $20 and BOLTED before the cops could come.
The lady was scared to death, shaking, there was nothing anyone could do, as the dude ran across the Plaza towards the bridge and parking lots into a crowd of thousands.