Illegal Gambling in Lincoln?
By: Mr. Wilson on
February 20, 2009
The Nebraska State Patrol has been confiscating the machines as illegal gambling devices because they are entirely games of chance, not skill. Possession of one of the machines is a class 3 misdemeanor in Nebraska.
Unfortunately, I know of a local business which has had one of these machines on site for the past few weeks. It was still there on Tuesday, the last time I stopped in. I doubt the owners have any idea the machine is illegal so I will try to get in touch with them and encourage them to investigate the legality of their particular machine. The KETV report suggests the machines in the Omaha area are all coming from the same distributor, though it doesn't name that distributor. It's possible the machine I'm aware of isn't the only one in Lincoln.
If you know of a local business that has one of these machines, I encourage you to contact them immediately.
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That machine looks similar to the ones found in kids places such as The Pizza Machine and Chuckie Cheese. Drop a token in and hope it pushes the other tokens off. If you get tokens you get tickets. Tickets mean prizes.
I’m naive, but what’s the difference?
I’m guessing the picture is the token version. The ones in the bars are probably of the coinage version. Drop a quarter in and it pushes other quarters off. If you get quarters, you get to keep them.
Technically I think its gambling, but I don’t see how anymore harmful than they are of keno or pickle cards.
I remember when the county fairs (gage, anyway) had one of those-and it wasn’t tokens,either. But that was probably 15 years ago.
That would have been right around the start of the Nebraska Lottery. It wouldn’t surprise me if Nebraska became more anal about that sort of gambling device when its own gambling revenues were on the line.
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