Police looking into bingo players’ dispute

[Algorem]

Source: Youngstown Vindicator


Police looking into bingo players’ dispute

Published:Saturday, April 5, 2008

AUSTINTOWN — A dispute between two bingo players turned physical Tuesday night at St. Joseph Church.

An 81-year-old Youngstown woman came to the Austintown police station Thursday morning to report that an 82-year-old Austintown woman had “purposely bumped” her as she was walking out of the food line at about 8 p.m. Tuesday at the church.

The bump knocked her back a few steps, causing her vision to blur, she told police...



Myers said bingo games at various locations have caused tempers to flare in the past — usually because a player sets up his or her game cards and markers and comes back to find that someone has moved them.



Read more: http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/apr/05/police-looking-into-bingo-players8217-dispute/

[Canuckistanian]

1. That's a serious allegation

Moving someone else's bingo cards, that is.

I've worked quite a few charity bingos I was amazed at all the "unwritten rules" for proper Bingo etiquette and behavior.

And one of the MOST serious is touching someone else's stuff while they are away.

Punishment can be swift and severe.

[greiner3]

2. Death by dauber?

[shain from kane]

3. Many players surround their cards with good luck charms. Don't you dare touch them.

[pattmarty]

4. Slow news day? Got high and saw this on the back page of the Daily Boner??

[Robb]

5. Economic indicator, of sorts

Bingo halls and school bingo nights get more popular when a $100 payout means food on the table.

Blood pressures go up about the whole thing, too.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. I lived in Virginia from 78 - 80 and was about 10 years old.

It was LEGAL for me to play bingo with my mother present, and thanks to her addiction I was kinda forced to more times than I can recall. For a time I would keep my winnings minus triple the cost of the cards I had, and then one day I discovered a LOT of money missing out of my piggy bank. In the hundreds. After I calmed down from the total fit I threw that day it finally sunk in that I was in a hopelessly dysfunctional family and refused to play any more bingo.

[Kukesa]

7. Mahoning Valley; Bingo is serious. 'Nuff said. n/t

[AngryOldDem]

8. That's no joke.

You don't mess with people at Bingo. Period.