How A Storage Wars Prank Led To $6k Bids On Lockers

In the Season 2 episode "Operation Hobo," Nabila Haniss drove the bidding ridiculously high. There were a lot of high jinks in this episode, including Dave Hester showing up with huge trucks with his name on them (which he barely filled), and Barry Weiss tricking the other buyers into thinking he was an old man on oxygen who wandered in by accident. Haniss, growing tired of the shenanigans, ran the bidding up on a locker with two motorcycles in it (although the motorcycles had to be auctioned separately from the locker, leading to some drama) so that Darrell Sheets, a.k.a. "The Gambler," took the bait and bought the locker for $6,650. He fell over $3,000 short of making even on the unit, even after finding a nifty-looking dart gun in it.

Sheets was one of the popular characters on the show, but, according to IMDB, he didn't return to the show immediately when it came back from hiatus in 2021. It's hardly surprising because, in March of 2019, Sheets revealed on Instagram that he suffered two back-to-back heart attacks, requiring emergency surgery. Sheets finally made his return to the show in 2022 when he appeared in the episode "Piles to Go Before We Sleep." We're certainly glad the "Storage Wars" star pulled through.