Being up with the birds, bingo, dinner at 4:30, death—it’s all you have to look forward once you’ve lost the breaks going over the hill. As if that wasn’t enough, the man in Idaho is out to crush your smiles and memories like the afternoon snack in the Wednesday compartment of your pill organizer.
Police raided the Twin Falls Senior Center in Twin Falls, Idaho when word of an illegal poker game reached their station/general store/post office. The culprits? A regular group of residents enjoying a $20 buy-in Texas hold’em game. Tossing walkers, dentures, plates of pea soup, and anything else that stood in their way, officers proceeded to shatter what little joy the elderly had left and broke up the game in honor of state laws and another slow day at the office.
Idaho law states: “risking any money, credit, deposit or other thing of value for gain contingent in whole or in part upon lot, chance, the operation of a gambling device or the happening or outcome of an event, including a sporting event, the operation of casino gambling including, but not limited to, blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, baccarat or keno.” In fact, there is nothing written in legislation that permits gambling young or old.
Regardless, something such as this puts a face on the ridiculousness that is gaming legislation. Just imagine grabbing the creamed onions from your grandma next Thanksgiving and telling her she can’t enjoy them because you say so and you can see said face for yourself.
man cant believe that happened but it sure is funny