The "trileros" - three-card tricksters or ones with three cups or shells - ply a trade on the margins of legality. Their seemingly petty criminality does, however, and like some illegal street sellers as well, disguise more sinister behaviour. Some French tourists in Arenal on Saturday discovered how sinister this can be.
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"Trileros" arrested for threatening tourists with a knife
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And who, in their right mind, would actually gamble their money with these street hustlers anyway?