Bingo Bosses are the Bullies 

In Alabama it has become commonplace to look at the police and the governor’s task force as “bullies” because they have insisted that the laws regarding slot machines be followed. They have made it very clear that slot machines are illegal in Alabama, the courts have upheld the law and the rulings, and there is no other way around it. The confusion that many say that they are experiencing has to do with the offering of bingo in the state.

The law states that bingo can be offered, but that it is the paper kind that you mark off when your number is called. Many establishments in Alabama have taken that bingo term rather loosely and said that electronic bingo machines are legal as well. The only problem with that is that these machines are commonly referred to as Class III slot machines, and slot machines are illegal in the state of Alabama outside of a legal casino. 

Once the government started cracking down on the illegal slot machines, other legislators within the state tried to say that they were acting illegally by seizing the machines and closing down the businesses. But the problem with this is that there is nothing in the law of the state that says they can have slot machines, and this is why the courts supported the governor and said that the slot machines had to go. 

Then the people of Alabama started saying that the governor and the police were nothing but a bunch of bullies, and that they should leave the bingo palaces alone. Well, if they weren’t breaking the laws of Alabama they would have no problem doing that. Instead, it is their job to ensure that all the residents of the state of Alabama follow the rules and laws of the state – not just some of them.