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$50 Football Pool Leads To Illegal Gambling Charges
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Posted on 02/09/2007 6:44:01 PM PST by Rodney King

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I'm sure there are some here who think this woman should go to jail.
1 posted on 02/09/2007 6:44:02 PM PST by Rodney King
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Everybody knows in order to not get in trouble, you must stick to $20 football.


2 posted on 02/09/2007 6:44:47 PM PST by jdm
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This is just sickening. Freedom has totally died in this country.


3 posted on 02/09/2007 6:46:03 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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Not here. This is ludicrous. Hopefully the jury will throw the prosecutors out of the court bodily and tell them to do something useful


4 posted on 02/09/2007 6:47:18 PM PST by saganite (Billions and billions and billions-------and that's just the NASA budget!)
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Downright anti-American.


5 posted on 02/09/2007 6:47:44 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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I'm sure there are some here who think this woman should go to jail.

Let them speak up so we can ridicule and ostracize them.
6 posted on 02/09/2007 6:47:50 PM PST by Jaysun (I've never paid for sex in my life. And that's really pissed off a lot of prostitutes.)
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"There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."

AYN RAND
7 posted on 02/09/2007 6:48:29 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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"The charges stem from a Nov. 20 investigation by state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents into an anonymous tip that lodge members bet on NFL games."

They need to find the bluenosed snitch and throw him out of the lodge...
8 posted on 02/09/2007 6:49:01 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
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Hell, we had a $100 per square deal on the OSU-Michigan game. $10000 at stake. Since the VP of Operations and the Director of Manufacturing both bought a square, we were safe.

No Feds, thankfully.

9 posted on 02/09/2007 6:49:11 PM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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I've done this several times. I guess I should be doing life without parole.


10 posted on 02/09/2007 6:49:12 PM PST by darkangel82 (Socialism is NOT an American value.)
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Why are the police putting these fraternal organizations out of business?

What has our society come to? You can have a a bunch of perverts parading with police protection but get a few guys having a few beers and having a good time and all hell breaks loose.


11 posted on 02/09/2007 6:49:15 PM PST by spanalot
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Moral Absolutes Ping!

Oops. Not my ping list...


12 posted on 02/09/2007 6:50:39 PM PST by Philistone
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This couldn't have even cut into the local lotto or scratch off sales... /sarc

Why were "armed agents" not sent to secure our boarders instead. (That is not /sarc.)

13 posted on 02/09/2007 6:50:52 PM PST by DocRock (What would Solomon Do?)
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A longer version of that, is the first item on my FR profile page.


14 posted on 02/09/2007 6:51:05 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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Moral Absolutes Ping!

ROFL! No doubt the Puritan wing of FR will side with the federales on this.

15 posted on 02/09/2007 6:52:27 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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>>I'm sure there are some here who think this woman should go to jail.<<

The NCAA basketball tournament is coming up - if this were enforced uniformly it would shut down the American economy.
16 posted on 02/09/2007 6:53:09 PM PST by gondramB (It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.)
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"Why are the police putting these fraternal organizations out of business? "

I really think it is because...

"Current members are required to be U.S. citizens over the age of 21 and believe in God."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elks_Lodge


17 posted on 02/09/2007 6:53:46 PM PST by angelsonmyside
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Time to turn illegal gambling over to the illegals so it would be OK.


18 posted on 02/09/2007 7:01:11 PM PST by mcshot ("If it ain't broke it doesn't have enough features." paraphrased anon.)
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I was always under the impression that pools were legal so long as the house didn't keep a portion of the proceeds - perhaps it depends on the state.


19 posted on 02/09/2007 7:02:14 PM PST by decal (Too many people mistake "tolerance" for "approval.")
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If a government has the time and money to spend resources on investigating and charging people running the local lodge's $50 football pool, that government is far, far too big and intrusive.

A whole lot of laws need to be repealed.


20 posted on 02/09/2007 9:14:16 PM PST by ellery (The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. - Edmund Burke)
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