Posted on 11/26/2015 2:20:39 PM PST by sparklite2
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. () Police in Florida busted a game of mahjong in Florida at a condominium clubhouse. The group accused of the crime: four women between the ages of 87 and 95.
King says word spread about their weekly gathering and that a "troublemaker" in the community called the police citing a law that prohibits playing the game for money. Police closed the clubhouse.
After a bit of investigating, officials came to the conclusion that there is no ordinance prohibiting mahjong gambling of that nature.
(Excerpt) Read more at tampa.cbslocal.com ...
What idiot would think a mahjong game played by some elderly women constitutes illegal activity?
Again, a good journalist would find out who the "troublemaker" is and find out their connection to the mayor or police commissioner.
The gratuitous "Jack Booted Thugs" commentary aside... cops simply don't have the time or inclination for this sort of BS unless they're getting heat from up top.
What a great story it would be if the "troublemaker" was a political donor to the mayor's campaign...
Lazy journalism.
I feel so much safer now.
The cops kept going back to make sure the little old ladies didn’t have another game going. Geez, as if there weren’t murders and robberies that didn’t need investigating. Those cops need to be fired or the police department needs their funding cut.
Yes, it is called the jury system. Look it up sometime.
Common sense is also something I love seeing exercised, but apparently not regulated enough for you.
No, I am saying criminals break minor laws just as often as they break serious ones.
Boot leather tastes better than being totally manipulated by the media simply because they are attacking cops.
Read SCOTUS decisions, police have no obligation to respond to any call. Ever.
Post a link.
Oh, and by the way, if it is the decision I think you are citing, that’s not what it says.
DING! DING! DING! DING!
We have a winner.
.............................
In this case, didn’t you mean to say:
BINGO!
We have a winner.
Trouble is in games like those, you could be team-played and not even know it. That's especially true in poker. Signals can fly back and forth across the table, disguised as nose scratches, or even hidden in the way the chips are stacked.
Even a good player - one who's on par with the rest of the players - will get squeezed in games like those.
Grow the hell up. You want to see the police NOT respond? Call in a meth operation from which they're getting protection money. That's the way the world works.
Climate Change! Next they will bust elderly women for driving their SUV in old age.
Such brave brownshirts.
The estimate of just Federal statutes that are criminal is between 3,600 and 4,500. Add in the regulatory “laws” and that number balloons to over 300,000. As for the number of individual state laws and local laws, who the Hell knows. It has been claimed that everyone, no matter who you are and how “pure” you are, violates at least three laws per day that could send them to the pokey. The real issue is far too many laws for nearly everything, a law enforcement culture that uses these myriad laws to control those it wishes to control and the real effort to cow and scare the citizenry into blind and stupid docile obedience. It is what Rand wrote of in Atlas Shrugged. It is a situation that conservatives should be very angry about.
I tried very hard to join a Mah-jong game many years ago;
but it just went over my head and flew out the door. (I
got restless and impatient; and I don’t think you’re
supposed to do that. I can’t remember much about it; but I
sort of remember having to say “Knock Knock” in order to
participate. Never really knew why; but I do remember
dutifully saying “Knock Knock”. Anyone else want to chime
in here?
Say it ain't so!
No!!!!!
But when you do read the article you find out that the police determined that they were doing nothing illegal. It is petty shit like this that keep police from investigating real crimes.
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