Law enforcement officials in Palmer Lake, Colorado, have successfully eliminated all crime from their community. All actual crimes, the ones that might cause damage to you or your property, no longer occur there. It must be true, because they just spent a month conducting an undercover investigation of a $15 poker game held weekly at a local restaurant.
Multiple officers were working the case. After reading the story in the Rocky, I'm not sure the game was even illegal. Did I mention it was a monthlong investigation? I wonder how much tax money was wasted burned shredded thrown into the wind spent on this bust. A $15 poker game.
If you live in that jurisdiction you may want to take a more active interest in the activities of your local gendarmerie.
Posted by Walter at April 28, 2005 07:35 AMComing soon, courtesy of the taxpayer: Bustin' up the church bingo crowd, the Elks Lodge, the Moose Lodge, the VFW. All those sneaky God-fearing types who like to pretend they are otherwise harmless.
I want to know something with regards to the bust in Palmer Lake: Who turned the game in to the police? A sore loser? Or someone who got caught counting cards?
Posted by: James C. Hess at April 28, 2005 10:07 AMI don't think anyone had to turn them in, they were operating the game publicly because they didn't think they were doing anything wrong.
Posted by: Walter at April 28, 2005 09:16 PM