Who calls bingo without it in this day and age? In elementary school kids'd fark you up. I can only imagine what the ladies with the walkers and oxygen and troll dolls and multi-colored stampers would do. I'd be way to scared to call a fake bingo and get found out in the average bingo den.

If you pretend to be a retard you can yell "BINGO!" every two minutes and they will give you the money without checking your card.

Been making a living this way for 12 years, it works.

That's nothing. You should see what PBS does if you prank pledge them.

Bathia_Mapes: Why in the hell didn't the worker verify the card before giving the guy $400?

Even in a church. Verify first!!

Gig103: Those old ladies will mutilate your body if you even think about saying BINGO without having the card to back it up. I wouldn't mess around with those chain smoking monsters with their troll dolls and lucky daubers.

We have a casino with a gigantic bingo room. Those people are hardcore. I don't even know how they do it. You get a sheet of like 20 cards. I can't even keep up and their are like hundreds of people each with at least 4 sheets and the room is absolutely quiet. It's pretty freaky.

BCS time: (That's bingo cool story)

Was present in a Vegas casino bingo hall where one of the options was to play a "magic number" game, in which you have 32 calls to make a bingo, and if you get one on your "magic number" you win the uber-jackpot. I'd been a number of times before (a $4 bet would get you 4-6 drink,s depending on how fast you went through them) and the most I'd seen was someone taking away $1000 on a regular card.

So, proceeding as normal through the magic number bonus round, nobody has won anything- the caller says "and this is your last number, (whatever it was) and a lady on the other side of the room jumps up and just starts yelling incoherently, no words, just "Aaaaahhhh! Waaaaahhh!! Ouuaahhhh!!" so the caller, in a deadpan, says "If you have bingo, you must declare "BINGO" before we move on, or your payout is invalidated." She quickly yells "BINGOBINGOBINGO"- I don't know if the caller meant to turn off the mic, or cover it, or what, because the next thing everyone heard was "On the last number out of 32? You have to be shiatting me."

Took the casino people about 25 minutes to verify the card, the dauber, her ID, get the pitboss, reverify, he calls it in upstairs, etc etc- we didn't mind cuz the cocktail waitresses just kept handing us booze.

After all was said and done, caller gets back up and says "We have confirmation; congratulations to our jackpot winner for a total of $63,xxx" Everyone (about 300 ppl) stood up and cheered and applauded, was pretty cool. Now, if it were me, I'd have gotten the hell outta there immediately, but this lady calmed down and stayed, and proceeded to win another $500 on the next card, which pissed a lot of people off and erased all of the "good for you" sentiment she had built up in the crowd.

/end bingo story
//never thought i'd have reason to tell THAT one on fark

Gig103: Those old ladies will mutilate your body if you even think about saying BINGO without having the card to back it up. I wouldn't mess around with those chain smoking monsters with their troll dolls and lucky daubers.

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Corvus: Gig103: Those old ladies will mutilate your body if you even think about saying BINGO without having the card to back it up. I wouldn't mess around with those chain smoking monsters with their troll dolls and lucky daubers.

We have a casino with a gigantic bingo room. Those people are hardcore. I don't even know how they do it. You get a sheet of like 20 cards. I can't even keep up and their are like hundreds of people each with at least 4 sheets and the room is absolutely quiet. It's pretty freaky.

Does that casino have the electronic things that do it for you? Most people I see playing more than 4 cards just use the electronic "card" that plays for them; never understood the point of that.

Still, it just takes a bit of practice- you quickly learn to only pay attention to calls that are relevant to you; if you're playing a 6 pack game and you need b2 to finish it, and you're nowhere even close on your other cards, you really only pay attention to the B calls. The casino I played at (the South Point) had you playing 6 boards at once, per card. We figured it was so you didn't have time to drink as much free booze.

You've got to be a special kind of jerk to steal from a church.

That's a bingo!

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Went to Bingo once with an ex who loved to play. One of those VFW hall sort of deals. They had a caller at a podium and a big screen set up that showed a videoed close up of him pulling out the balls. Now this being my first time, I was looking more at the screen to get the numbers rather than listening to when he was calling them. Since I was seeing the screen first before he called them, I guess I was a little ahead. My lucky number comes up and I call "Bingo" before he actually called it. Now every old lady in the place glares at me like I just said their pecan pie sucked. One lady in particular is staring at me so hard, I actually feel it. As the card checker guy is verifying my win, dagger-starer gets up and starts shuffling towards me. She approaches and I notice the cane in her hand. I'm thinking "She's gonna whack me with that thing," so I start to prepare myself and eyeball the exits. She gets to me, leans down and right when I think she's about to whisper "Thinner!", She says "honey, you need to wait until they actually call the number". The way she said it, I don't know how to describe it, but I imagine it's what it's like when a well known mobster suggests that you do something. Really sinister, but worded just right that it won't hold up as a death threat in a court of law.
Then during the next two cards, after every number is called, old lady turns around to make sure, I'm not even thinking of reaching for my marker until the caller has finished saying the number. After every. single. number. Eventually I grabbed my girl, got the hell out of there and spent some of my winnings at the bar down the street. Never played again.
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I always yell "bingo" when I climax. Even if I'm alone!

LeroyBourne: You've got to be a special kind of jerk to steal from a church.

Why? Those churches regularly steal from their "flock".

LeroyBourne: You've got to be a special kind of jerk to steal from a church.

You've got to be a special kind of jerk to aim to be a troll

As I'm currently sitting at my desk at the bingo hall I manage, I'm totally getting a kick out of these replies.

Bingo players are evil scum. No sarcasm. Worst people ever.

When I describe bingo players to people, it goes something like this; imagine your typical lower class person, living on welfare, 6 kids at home, possibility a minority or an older person living on pension. In their lives they have no power. They are at the mercy of the government, social services, their own stupidity, whatever. But have them spend 30 dollars on bingo? OH LAWD THEY GOT POWER NOW!

Literally, they turn into demanding shiatheads at the drop of a hat. Nevermind their smells. The hygiene is....well..lacking doesn't begin to describe it. Some days I'd rather work at a rendering plant.

In college I used to work security at a BINGO place, nothing serious I did the payouts on each of the bingos and then got to tell the regulars to get the hell out when we stopped selling pull tabs.

You cannot imagine all the food stamps I would see in ladies wallets when I needed an ID for bigger payouts That and spandex is not for everyone.

Verfall: As I'm currently sitting at my desk at the bingo hall I manage, I'm totally getting a kick out of these replies.

Bingo players are evil scum. No sarcasm. Worst people ever.

When I describe bingo players to people, it goes something like this; imagine your typical lower class person, living on welfare, 6 kids at home, possibility a minority or an older person living on pension. In their lives they have no power. They are at the mercy of the government, social services, their own stupidity, whatever. But have them spend 30 dollars on bingo? OH LAWD THEY GOT POWER NOW!

Literally, they turn into demanding shiatheads at the drop of a hat. Nevermind their smells. The hygiene is....well..lacking doesn't begin to describe it. Some days I'd rather work at a rendering plant.

Hah, I know exactly what you're talking about; have had the same thing occur (to a lesser extent) at the casino; they're at least vaguely aware that the casino won't put up with their shiat.

Once I had a lady sitting across from me eating cooked, cold, white rice out of a gallon ziploc bag with a plastic knife. When the waitresses said that she could drink, but not eat in there she said "Oh, this is fine, it's not really food, it's just rice" and kept eating. Security came over and told her the same thing and she put the bag away, but not before whining about what she's "allowed" to do. Her ancient husband sat there and looked embarrassed to the extent that an elderly Asian man can.

Tony_Pepperoni: I'm surprised no one posted this yet. BINGO (new window)


Or this BINGO (new window)

grinding_journalist: Verfall: As I'm currently sitting at my desk at the bingo hall I manage, I'm totally getting a kick out of these replies.

Bingo players are evil scum. No sarcasm. Worst people ever.

When I describe bingo players to people, it goes something like this; imagine your typical lower class person, living on welfare, 6 kids at home, possibility a minority or an older person living on pension. In their lives they have no power. They are at the mercy of the government, social services, their own stupidity, whatever. But have them spend 30 dollars on bingo? OH LAWD THEY GOT POWER NOW!

Literally, they turn into demanding shiatheads at the drop of a hat. Nevermind their smells. The hygiene is....well..lacking doesn't begin to describe it. Some days I'd rather work at a rendering plant.

Hah, I know exactly what you're talking about; have had the same thing occur (to a lesser extent) at the casino; they're at least vaguely aware that the casino won't put up with their shiat.

Once I had a lady sitting across from me eating cooked, cold, white rice out of a gallon ziploc bag with a plastic knife. When the waitresses said that she could drink, but not eat in there she said "Oh, this is fine, it's not really food, it's just rice" and kept eating. Security came over and told her the same thing and she put the bag away, but not before whining about what she's "allowed" to do. Her ancient husband sat there and looked embarrassed to the extent that an elderly Asian man can.

I was standing in line at McD's with the GF and her father one afternoon, when I got slapped on the ass. No word of a lie, one of the old Asian men who regularly plays here decided to "say hello" by slapping me on the rear in front of his family, the GF's family and about 20 other people. This guy is also known as a huge prick in the hall, ripping off workers and such.

The hall I work at is actually owned by the charities that also work the bingo's, so when these inconsiderate farkwits shiat on a worker selling paper, they're literally shiatting on a volunteer. And in some cases, shiat isn't just a metaphor.

I've had people piss in chairs, shiat on floors; one woman with the runs just backed into a stall one night and literally "fired away". They steal food from concession, they steal purses and cards off tables, they pick cigarette butts in the parking lot, they verbally abuse kids who work the bingo's for their sports teams, they abuse the staff any way they can, they're just...gah!

We apparently had a women mugged of her purse in our parking lot this afternoon, at like noon.

Does "we" refer to a pack of deadly, deadly bees?

Bingo!
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dericwater: LeroyBourne: You've got to be a special kind of jerk to steal from a church.

Why? Those churches regularly steal from their "flock".

"steal" puts it lightly, and politely.

my BIL grew up in a tough NJ area. as a young fellow he would make extra money escorting daytime bingo winners safely home.

Try this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCRacroAorA

I once filled my card and shouted OGNIB...then realized I had my card upside down


(crickets)

Bathia_Mapes: Why in the hell didn't the worker verify the card before giving the guy $400?

Probably because they're from the type of community where people don't lock their front doors and the cops tell you to return what you stole or they're charge you with theft.