23 arrested in Alpharetta for gambling on NCAA tournament

[ATLTJL]

If you are so against it, then lobby the government to legalize gambling, which they should.

Otherwise, you're forcing authorities to make decisions on when to enforce a law and when not to.

If gambling is legal, then let us have full-on casinos. If it's illegal, then shut down every NCAA bracket you can find.

[OuiOui]

Ok, so I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this is ridiculous. Then again, I could think of several things that should be decriminalized...
Another case of being in the wrong state at the wrong time!

[arjay57]

Originally Posted by ATLTJL

If you are so against it, then lobby the government to legalize gambling, which they should.

Otherwise, you're forcing authorities to make decisions on when to enforce a law and when not to.

If gambling is legal, then let us have full-on casinos. If it's illegal, then shut down every NCAA bracket you can find.

Valid points. I know people say "It's only basketball" but what's next? College football, the Braves and Falcons, the numbers racket?

If gambling is the will of the people then so be it but let's be up front about it.

[ATLTJL]

The way I see it, gambling may as well be fully legal in all of its forms because the fundamentals of this country are based on gambling.

We call it the stock market, but anybody can invest however much money they want into a company whose valuation is often based on little more than psychology. Regardless, individual investors have about as much influence on corporate decisions as they do on where a roulette ball lands, so if I can lose all my money on the NYSE, why can't I lose it all at the Bellagio?
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[Caleb Longstreet]

The guilty have tinted the windows of their Suburbans, Mini-Vans, and high priced sedans out of shame.....for sale signs everwhere in Windward....oh the humanity! This is funny. Arresting some suburbanites for placing a wager on a.......basketball game?

There goes the neighborhood, property values dropping, casino like crime on the way! I feel sorry for the cops. They were probably embarrassed for having had to break up the party. They took a bigger chance of a lawsuit for scratching a Dooney & Dork purse than arresting these cougar felines.

There's plenty of tweakers to go after. Try them. The fines are larger and it will actually do everyone some good to put them away. But....basketball games???

[Craziaskowboi]

Oh, good heavens! All those people are betting their own money on which basketball team will win? The world has gone mad! What next, will people start exceeding the speed limit on the highway?!

I weep for the future.