Gambling ban on Cologne seniors’ illegal bingo game to be lifted - Sensationalist Headlines

[t]https://www.thelocal.de/userdata/images/article/89bd690f7935b77e2461ee53161c944e9aedca6cf66968751b83da16d33fd146.jpg[/t] [QUOTE]Residents at a retirement home in Cologne were told earlier this week that their weekly bingo game was illegal. They have now been given a three-month licence to play the game in which the winner gets chocolates. The relief must be palpable at the Sozial-Betriebe residential home in Cologne. On Monday the old folks' home announced that it had banned all further bingo games among its residents after city authorities had warned it that the games were taking place in contravention of German gambling laws. “We were completely speechless at first when we heard about it, we never thought that we, a senior citizen's institution, were running an illegal gambling ring,” said the home’s manager, Gabriele Patzke. The pensioners at the home each contribute a sum of €0.50 to the weekly game and stand the chance of winning a box of chocolates at the end. An accountant had alerted the city authorities to a potential violation of gambling laws last year. But for the seniors to keep indulging their vice, they will have to jump through more bureaucratic hoops in the future. Besides only receiving an initial three-month gambling permit, the home will have to notify authorities each time a game is to take place.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]https://www.thelocal.de/20180116/gambling-ban-on-cologne-seniors-illegal-bingo-game-to-be-lifted[/url]

Bingo in general should be banned.

[QUOTE]They have now been given a three-month licence to play the game in which the winner gets chocolates. [/QUOTE] I can't stop laughing. Germany is so silly sometimes

I guess it technically is gambling since they input money for a chance to win the chocolate. Will renewing the license (after the initial 3 month license they got from the city) cost them anything?

First, underground high stakes bingo games, next, roving gangs of septuagenarian hooligans! [video=youtube;UY-I3QTT8mY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY-I3QTT8mY[/video]

Hahhaha! It's funny cos' they're old! Nevermind that gambling preys on compulsive and addictive behaviour patterns that require a lot of self-control and a will to be rid of! Nevermind that they might gamble away their life's savings, it's funny because they're old!!!

[QUOTE=Chris Morris;53058462]Hahhaha! It's funny cos' they're old! Nevermind that gambling preys on compulsive and addictive behaviour patterns that require a lot of self-control and a will to be rid of! Nevermind that they might gamble away their life's savings, it's funny because they're old!!![/QUOTE] It's bingo, and it's less than a dollar spent on chocolate.

[QUOTE=Chris Morris;53058462]Hahhaha! It's funny cos' they're old! Nevermind that gambling preys on compulsive and addictive behaviour patterns that require a lot of self-control and a will to be rid of! Nevermind that they might gamble away their life's savings, it's funny because they're old!!![/QUOTE] wow, they might gamble away their life's savings of 50 cents

[QUOTE=FlakTheMighty;53058492]It's bingo, and it's less than a dollar spent on chocolate.[/QUOTE] I dunno about you but chocolate is renown for rejuvenating the scales of old fish when rubbed in. Maybe the same works for old people as well. This isn't simply about chidlren anymore.

[QUOTE=Chris Morris;53058462]Hahhaha! It's funny cos' they're old! Nevermind that gambling preys on compulsive and addictive behaviour patterns that require a lot of self-control and a will to be rid of! Nevermind that they might gamble away their life's savings, it's funny because they're old!!![/QUOTE] Talk about spoil sport!!! Misery guts

Lottery corporations have been complaining for years about this place's strict gambling laws. For the most part they're a good thing, but it does lead to silly situations like this one :v: