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Oh this cracked me up. I know that today people are having fits over this and you know what? I can't be happier.
Here's the deal: In most gas stations in my local area, you'll find these video poker machines. The laws say that while companies can have them, they can't actually pay anything on them. Store credit, and that's it.
Well, some gas stations were paying cash for the things, which is highly illegal.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you hundreds of times when I'd go to one of these gas stations and have to wait in line while one of the "Poker" patrons cashed out. It was annoying at best, and frightening at worst. I remember even being threatened once when I commented to a friend of mine that I had thought it was illegal to pay out cash on the machines. The store owner gave me a strange look, and the patron at the counter said something to the effect of "If you know what's good for you, you'll get your arse out of here before it gets thrown out." So I paid and left.
Well here's the fun part of the story:
Monday, the 8th, the FBI, GBI, and a whole host of other law enforcement agencies descended on Swainsboro, Vidalia, and Lyons (probably more but those are the cities I know) and shut down no less than 29 gas stations for paying out cash on the video poker. In Lyons alone, 6 gas stations had their doors padlocked, leaving only ONE gas station to take up the slack. (He's in hog heaven, since he now has zero competition). Of the 29 stations hit, some seventy arrests were made, and charges are expected. Those charges carry severe fines, and prison sentences upwards of TWENTY FIVE YEARS in prison.
http://pkrgrlnina.newsvine.com/_news...s-gas-stations
Now as to the suck? My little city is expected to be "next" on the series of raids (or so some friends of mine in the police dept tell me). The local people who use these gambling establishments are up in arms! I swear they've been calling into the radio to complain that now they don't have anything better to do with their free time!
Here's the deal: In most gas stations in my local area, you'll find these video poker machines. The laws say that while companies can have them, they can't actually pay anything on them. Store credit, and that's it.
Well, some gas stations were paying cash for the things, which is highly illegal.
Speaking from experience, I can tell you hundreds of times when I'd go to one of these gas stations and have to wait in line while one of the "Poker" patrons cashed out. It was annoying at best, and frightening at worst. I remember even being threatened once when I commented to a friend of mine that I had thought it was illegal to pay out cash on the machines. The store owner gave me a strange look, and the patron at the counter said something to the effect of "If you know what's good for you, you'll get your arse out of here before it gets thrown out." So I paid and left.
Well here's the fun part of the story:
Monday, the 8th, the FBI, GBI, and a whole host of other law enforcement agencies descended on Swainsboro, Vidalia, and Lyons (probably more but those are the cities I know) and shut down no less than 29 gas stations for paying out cash on the video poker. In Lyons alone, 6 gas stations had their doors padlocked, leaving only ONE gas station to take up the slack. (He's in hog heaven, since he now has zero competition). Of the 29 stations hit, some seventy arrests were made, and charges are expected. Those charges carry severe fines, and prison sentences upwards of TWENTY FIVE YEARS in prison.
http://pkrgrlnina.newsvine.com/_news...s-gas-stations
Now as to the suck? My little city is expected to be "next" on the series of raids (or so some friends of mine in the police dept tell me). The local people who use these gambling establishments are up in arms! I swear they've been calling into the radio to complain that now they don't have anything better to do with their free time!
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