Comments on: Dallas Police to Poker Players: Don’t Speed on Your Way to Shreveport!

By: IttyBittyWussy

IttyBittyWussy — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 01:23:16 +0000

Why is Deputy Chief Bernal threatening to arrest the patrons and take them to jail for M/C? The maximum punishment for a M/C is ZERO JAIL TIME. Hmm, officer bluff much?

By: steve

steve — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:58:33 +0000

i find the lack of media coverage by the local outlets interesting…..a vfw hall full of veterans who sacrificed for their country and “average joes” who work for a living; dont fit there stereotype of the degenerate gamblers that require swat teams….hey we average joes deserve camera time too!!!!!

By: DanM

DanM — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:36:20 +0000

Poker is obviously dying.

By: (anon)

(anon) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:28:06 +0000

Anyone else think the state is dissapointed in the amount of cash they robed from those last 4 busts… Or are they happy with the amount that winstar gave them so winstar can have more people in there new poker room grand opening.

By: No Mo Po Po

No Mo Po Po — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 02:51:27 +0000

I know a private game in Sachse where Clonie plays poker with the PoPo’s. Maybe we can send in the SWAT to bust it up..HEY..headline “PoPos caught PoPos playing 2-5″

By: Fresh Princess

Fresh Princess — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 23:53:53 +0000

“”"”Gambling is illegal and the citizens of Dallas expect us to enforce those laws as long as they are in place”"”"

That’s it! I’m becoming a professional lotto player and opening an underground bingo hall.

By: BigSlick75093

BigSlick75093 — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 22:26:40 +0000

If the police really want to stop people from playing, then why don’t they tell us the names of the establishments that they plan on busting ahead of time. I can guarantee you that will deter anyone from engaging in illegal activity at those places

By: Dantana

Dantana — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:39:22 +0000

The Supreme Court said the same thing.

By: pisswilley

pisswilley — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:31:47 +0000

I dont want to think about gay sex…. ewwwww!!!

By: Dantana

Dantana — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:07:18 +0000

You know, it used to be illegal to have gay sex in Texas, until only recently. It’s basically the same thing as poker, when you think about it.

By: Scott Chaffin

Scott Chaffin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:48:56 +0000

Dear Wake Up,

Go scold somebody else, someplace else. It’s possible to do both, if you’ve got a fully-developed brain.

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By: Wake Up

Wake Up — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:35:41 +0000

Instead of taking the time to bitch in this forum about getting caught, please take the time to bitch to your lawmakers about the laws themselves. Then we can get back to watching Dan LEGALLY play 2-7o for his entire bankroll.

By: Garry

Garry — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:08:22 +0000

If they are going to take the approach of enforcing the laws while they are in place why are the not doing anything about the many infractions that happen on any given stretch of road? Many of the on road violations threaten life and limb of anybody in the area.

I donÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t think I have heard of anybody loosing a limb or life playing poker recently.

By: No Mo Po Po

No Mo Po Po — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:43:06 +0000

“Let me repeat, we would rather have voluntary compliance from a group of normally law abiding citizens.”

Hey PoPo, we’re playing over here at the chop shop, com’on over and arrest us and give us tickets.

By: Scott Chaffin

Scott Chaffin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:16:08 +0000

Gambling is illegal and the citizens of Dallas expect us to enforce those laws as long as they are in place.

Many, many, many things are illegal, thanks to generations of lawmakers. The fact that our city Mothers have chosen to make this illegality a priority for the enforcers should be telling to all the citizens of Dallas. As a soon-to-be-former citizen of Dallas, this distorted priority list provided no small impetus to the decision to leave my formerly-beloved home town.

Or put another way, Dallas, and it’s PD, have bigger fish to fry, yet they choose to keep frying the very small ones.

By: rrh

rrh — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:55:56 +0000

a question in regards to chief bernal’s comments above – the folks charged with m/a on saturday night are to be picked up and taken to jail or from now on the folks charged with m/a will be taken to jail? if the decision has been made to pick up saturday night m/a folks and take them to jail, why not the previous nights m/a people? the chiefs gesture in providing the comments on this web site is an honorary one – the ‘heads up’ has now been given and even if not agreed with, a fair warning has now been published. however, i do not understand going back in time and putting people in jail prior to this warning – especially just saturday night folks and not earlier violaters. does some sort of grudge or vendetta exist against the saturday night m/a folks? why not allow people to take heed and avoid the ramifications the chief mentions – thereby giving integrity to the published warning and preserving consistency to treatment of past offenders AND future offenders? if the chief chooses to single out saturday’s m/a folks, the warning above rings very hollow and consistency of prosecution begs a question – what is driving this prosecuting decision? grudge? vendetta? or is the chief anti-war and going after the veterans who fought for our country in foreign wars? one of these reasons must exist to warrant such action against saturday night’s m/a folks only and allowing other offenders in the past to acknowledge this published warning and avoid ‘being picked up’. no matter if one believes poker gambling should be legal or not, defining the law and enforcing it CONSISTENTLY is what gets respect and future abidance!! (i hope my interpretation of the chief’s comments regarding saturdays m/a folks is in error!? – if so, the chief deserves credit for ‘firing one over the bow’ prior to execution).