Great Grandmother Strip-Searched At N.Y. Casino

[RamboLiberal]

Source: WCBSTV.com

A great-grandmother from Mount Vernon is filing suit for allegedly being strip searched at the Yonkers Raceway casino. As CBS 2 HD has learned, the angry woman says it was over a winner's slip that was missing.

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Jones says she was playing $1 slot machines. She won $80, but the machine did not spit out a paper winner's slip, so she called security and they called a mechanic to open the machine.

Meanwhile, she says she was taken to a room and interrogated by a man she says turned out to be a plain clothes state trooper who then accused her of hiding the winning slip, in an apparent scam to get another.

"He said, 'On camera it shows you put the ticket in your bra,'" Jones said. "I said no it shows me take out a dollar and put it in the machine."

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"They kept me down there for two and a half hours. Then they came and said they found the ticket. I said where was the ticket? He said it was in the machine."

Read more: http://wcbstv.com/local/yonkers.raceway.strip.2.565987.html

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Real brilliant you casino security idiots! I hope it costs you a million+ - all over a freaking $80!

[Maat]

1. Poor woman!

That was despicable behavior on the part of the Casino and the 'trooper.'

[man4allcats]

2. I hope she cleans their fucking clocks!

This should be worth a few million at least! It damn should would be if I were on the jury!

[DCKit]

3. THAT's going to be good for business.

Perhaps we should all make it a point to stay away from places where thugs are employed to "keep us safe."

[pnwmom]

4. I'm waiting for the DUers who will come out and say it was her fault

for gambling in the first place.

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Well... if she wasn't gambling, she'd have no problem.

:evilgrin:

[pnwmom]

6. And if she'd just stayed in bed that morning nothing bad would have happened.

A lesson to us all.

;-)

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Absolutely! I'm not getting out of bed for at least a week,

[pnwmom]

10. Then make sure you wiggle your toes enough

because you don't want to end up with any blood clots

which would be your fault

for being such a lazy thing.

:shrug:

[TAZller]

14. You clearly did not hear of the man tasered while sleeping in his own house...

[kurth]

8. Let the jury throw the book at their retarded asses

[MidwestTransplant]

9. You can never be to careful. Anybody could be a terrarist and this may be a way they raise funds.

[pnwmom]

11. Yeah, and that bra-money isn't traceable, I hear. n/t

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

12. atleast it was in New York,

In Nevada casino security can do damn near anything and is protected by state laws that protect the gaming industry and a blunderingly ineffective regulatory body. I encountered somebody who was mistakenly identified as being part of a banned cheating ring and he was held for hours before the police showed up and refused to arrest him for trespassing, hotel security also helped themselves to some of his belongings in his room and confiscated his cell phone that was lost in their care. (which was found and returned to Sprint and eventually him, ofcourse only after buying another one)

Read your states merchant statute, you would be suprised what businesses are allowed to do on suspicion alone under the auspices of "investigative detention"

[Raejeanowl]

13. Hope That She Does Sue Them n/t

[NutmegYankee]

15. How can a private business perform a strip search???

They have no authority. That had to be criminal. I hope she cleans them out.

[LiberalFighter]

18. If it is like here in Indiana

State Troopers are mandatory for Casinos. And the Casinos have to pay for the Trooper security.

[krispos42]

16. Kinda surprised it wasn't at an airport...

or the NYC subway. Or at the local Denny's.

[yellowcanine]

17. Oops - sounds as if she has them by the short curly ones. Go Granny!

[Doctor_J]

19. I remember when two Keno Girls were going to strip search me

but I couldn't come up with enough money

;-)

[Orsino]

20. It's wrong to profile all great-grandmothers...

...for the crimes of a few.

[Trillo]

21. Good example of Presumption of GUILT

What is the monetary value of loss of presumption of innocence?

Probably infinite, though someone will claim it's less than a trillion dollars.

[KansDem]

22. I avoid the casinos...

...ever since I read that winners of huge jackpots might not get their winnings and are offered instead a lesser amount due to "software glitches" that enabled them to win. This sounds a lot like cheating on the part of the casinos. In another era the casion owners would have been hanged.

Now, anytime someone's up for a little nickel-dime-quarter poker game, let me know! :)