Oh, well! I know a great auctioneer who can sell the stuff!

These employees gambled on a future court ruling and lost - seems appropriate.

There is a sucker born every minute. Ya just got to know what they're likely to want nexts.

Have to laugh at the folks that are so excited about the ruling. If you didn't patronize them, what does it matter to you. These people can spend their money as they wish. Presuming to know anything about these people or that the people that run them are in organized crime, etc is just foolish. I know several church going folks that actually own them that would be surprised to know that they are in organized crime.

"I know the owners of two of these places. Please tell me how these church going folks in Frnaklinton and Youngsville are involved in organized crime? LOL what in the world!!!"

The "sweepstakes" is just another incarnation of video poker which has been proven to be organized crime. How many video poker operators have been convicted and sent to prison for gambling, money laundering, tax evasion, wire fraud, etc.? Not organized crime, what about the sheriff in Buncombe County that went to prison for taking bribes from gambling operators to look the other way. In our history when has the legislature passed a law making an act, here "sweepstakes," a crime and those who are violating the law band together and hire lawyers to sue the state and pay millions of dollars to legislators in so called campaign contributions? If that is not organized, what is?

There is just too much money to be made bleeding gullible poor people of their rent/grocery money to let it go.

I just don't like this. This reeks of corruption on the Supreme Court. Someone was lobbying them and dishing out money. I mean, NC opened a can worms when they decided to operate a Lottery, which is gambling . So to tell business owners that they can do as you do and that is make a profit on sweepstakes machine, is just blatantly wrong and corrupt. This needs to be investigated or taken to the Supreme Court of the USA.

I have yet to see one of these "businesses" that looks like a business we would be proud to have in our neighborhood.

The most important part to this story is the IMPORTANT point that this "paper" was financed by a part of the gaming industry. So, naturally, it questions its totally accuracy.

Well, NO - because their patrons brought us business too.

We have a grocery store next to one of them, and their patrons would swing by our store for snacks before going in, and would stop by again for breakfast and lunch foods to take home when they left.

Esser Huma

Yep - I bet. After having spent all their "cash" in the gambling joint, they come in and use their "get-food-free" card at MY expense.

I don't give a hoot about their business or yours, if you support them.

I love all the comments from those who call the players "Fools, Poor, etc" I play at the Sweepstakes Cafe and I an no FOOL nor am I poor or live off the system. I work hard for my money and pay my own bills. If I choose to spend $20, $50 or $1,000 a week it is my choice. I want to know how many of the people who made a comment between 8am & 5pm today actually have a real job??? I am willing to bet that over 1/2 of the people ranting below do not even work and are living off of the system. So judge all you want but those of us who work our tail off and can afford to blow money are laughing at all your judgemental comments over being jelious!!! I hope they do not close them down just to tick you off even more!!!

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