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[Trina]

What I am about to say will probably come off as being and sounding harsh but i have to say it. These women, elderly as they may be, broke the law. If it was just a group of 5 or so then maybe it would be a little different but the group was rather large, plenty of women and plenty of money. Look at all of the chips that were seized and all of the cards. If they can afford the kind of money that they were playing per chip then I am sure that they are more than capable of paying the fines that they will be handed for their law breaking activities. Yes they are just doing something that they enjoy to pass the time but maybe they should have done it some other way, in a casino or make a tournament online of their own since some sites do offer that. At least that way it probably would have been a little more difficult for the authorities to catch them out. I hate nosy neighbours, nothing better to do with time than to complain about other people. I guess the other thing is that we may not know the full story. Maybe these ladies were being really loud. You get plenty of people in a room together and it is noisy, let alone when you add poker too it with celebratory cheers and what not.

[Jacob412]

Maybe it was done to prove a point, to show others that it is not ok to do this and that you will be prosecuted if you are found to be doing this in your homes. It is not a matter of a few ladies getting together around a kitchen table to play a few hands like they do in desperate housewives on televison or something like that, this was plenty of women all gathering at one place to play multiple hands of poker, not one kitchen table needed, you would need many kitchen tables to accomodate the women that were playing in these home tournaments and it was against the law, they probably knew that it was illegal too, who knows, i do not think the fine was harsh, if they can afford to be gambling at such a large sized tournament every week then i am sure they should be able to pay the fine for the law that they broke whilst doing so. Maybe they will learn from this but i doubt it, they will just be sneakier from now on.

[cindy2010]

I happen to think that these elderly female criminals, yes that’s what they are, criminals, actually got off pretty lightly, they were not hard done by by the authorities, they were hardly punished at all for breaking the law, all they got was told not to do it again and got slapped with a fine. I actually think that if these women were a heap younger, by a few decades at least, that they would have been punished more severely for these illegal poker tournaments so in essence everyone who has been complaining about it has gotten it very wrong indeed. And there wouldn’t be an issue over it at all if it had been young people.

[skylarking]

I have to agree with that as well, i don’t believe that people would have been so disapproving of the punishments handed out to these elderly women for their illegal poker tournament if the poker tournament was being done by a group of young people rather than old people. Just because they are elderly it does not give them the right to go around breaking the law when ever they want to no matter how much they think that the law is not important. Why should elderly people get off for crimes like this when the rest of us younger people would be punished for it? We do not owe them anything and i think it is about time that people understand that these people are elderly, doesn’t mean that they are fragile or innocent.

[simplelife]

Yeah there have been some real criminal masterminds who were considered to be elderly over the years. These people have been masters of disguise, fraudsters and even thieves and robbers, you can’t judge some one by their age, gender or anything else, everyone is different in their own ways and to stereotype groups of people and assume their innocence because of these stereotypes is nothing short of completely stupid and unrealistic. You can never tell what anyone is capable of by just looking at them, you have to know them deep down in order to know what they could get up to. The cops did what they have to do and they did it in a nice way so no one should be complaining about it because they were only doing their jobs.

[wisewords]

There are some people that just like to make a fuss over nothing. These are the kinds of people who think that the police were doing anything at all wrong by charging these women. If they were breaking the law then they deserve to be charged and to face the same penalites as anyone else would if they were found to be guilty of such crimes. We can’t just go about letting people get away with breaking the law because of anything, not their age, gender or race or anything else like that. It is simply not right to go about doing that. What kind of an example would we be setting for the younger generation if we start letting people get away with illegal activities because of their age?

[leimo]

The police did the right thing. Would you want them to just let an elderly person get away with it if they came up to you in the supermarket and stabbed you with a pair of scissors or something like that? Ok that is a strange and far out kind of thought there but the point remains clear, you would not want the police to let them get away with it so why expect the police to let them get away with breaking this law. I could see that it would be right for them to let them off with just a warning if it had only been a couple of people that were playing in these home games but there was a whole lot of them playing so that really does rule out the possibility or even right to any leaniency.

[dittle]

These women should have known and probably did know that there was a big risk that they would get caught out for holding such large scale poker tournaments with such regularity and that they would be punished for breaking the law. Nothing excuses them for their behaviour nor should it. They need to step up and take responsibility and accept their punishment just the same as anyone else would be expected to. I actually find it pretty amusing that these elderly women are basically criminals lol holding illegal gambling events for good amounts of money, sure beats spending your time knitting and quilting when you find yourself bored every week. I wonder how much these women were winning on average?