6b. Re: Not paying back your markers
Date: Sun Apr 8, 2007 2:00 am ((PDT))In a message dated 4/7/2007 8:13:41 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
AB6PQ@aol.com writes:Any of this still going on?
I suspect not with the major Strip casinos but there well may be collectors
for some of the smaller ones. I've heard stories like that in other cities
.. very current stories.
I'm amazed that this might still be going on in any legal casino -- non-legal gambling operations is another story, of course.
What ever happened to the great American traditiion of going in, getting a marker, losing lots of money, and then suing the casino because they shouldn't have let you play? (I never got that one, either).
While I understand the fear of physical harm, it certainly is a shame that the police can't offer some protection in such a situation -- such as being there in the background "tomorrow" to arrest these hoodlums (they must be breaking some kind of law) when they come back to collect. Of course, I also understand that the police can't be there all the time, but society really ought to be able to clean up something like this.
Or, in some cases, it might be appropriate to hire your own thugs for protection and to threaten retaliation if any harm is done. They make the rules, you play by them?
The realist and the idealist in me are struggling with this one.
--BG
···
============