'Occupy' Political Movement Targets Disfranchised Bingo Players
added 14.11.2011, 6:20PM
Things have been quiet in the recently tumultuous bingo scene of late. 'Too quiet' some grizzled veterans of the gaming industry have opined and they could be right. In the past year the usually staid bingo rooms of the Las Vegas metro area have been a hotbed of horrendous and depraved activity. What has historically been a slow paced diversion for somewhat dim witted oldsters has devolved into a maelstrom of deviant behavior. First it was the so called 'thug bingo' trend where senior citizens and down on their luck drifters would use the bingo room as a gathering place for drunken revelry. That gave way to a short lived 'planking' fad with surly bingo patrons laying prostrate all around the casino and generally trying to get in the way. The planking fad quickly deteriorated into a situation where bored, drunk and drug addled patrons would essentially try to 'out gross' their peers. The methods by which they'd do this are ghastly and too vulgar to be recounted on a family oriented gambling website. Suffice to say that it included urination, defication and other disgusting behaviors.
The bingo culture had deteriorated to the point that many lifelong employees were walking off the floor and out of the casino in disgust at having to restrain naked patrons, remove soiled adult diapers from the seating area and other repulsive acts. Even in the high unemployment of Southern Nevada casinos had difficulty filling vacancies in the bingo room and many casinos moved to eliminate the game altogether. The drunken and bored geriatrics stayed away--for awhile--but now they're back with a vengance.
The latest twist is what the meth crazed bingo devotees are calling 'Occupy the Bingo Hall' or 'OBH' for short. Essentially, it's just a new excuse for the same sort of lawless and deviant behavior that we saw during 'Bingo's Summer from Hell (TM)'. The difference now, however, is that the oldsters are trying to justify their antics with the same anti-capitalist, me-first entitlement hogwash of the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement. For awhile they were joined by many of the same riff raff--aging hippies, union thugs, professional protesters, career criminals and the chronically homeless. As the movement has died out nationwide, the fellow travelers have left the bingo patrons to their own devices.
As has been the case throughout the past year we can't recommend that decent people participate in live bingo, particularly in Southern Nevada. Until conditions improve, online bingo is the only good option.
