Bingo parlor sues over closing
The owners of a Riverdale bingo parlor are claiming city officials bullied them into shutting down by suggesting there was illegal gambling going on at the establishment and threatening to throw employees in jail. Now, the owners of Riverdale Dinner and Bingo are suing the city.
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Gambling history facts:
- Playing cards are believed to have been invented in China and/or India sometime around 900 A.D. The Chinese are thought to have originated card games when they began shuffling paper money (another Chinese invention) into various combinations.
- Dice games have existed in one form or another for over 2000 years and were originally played with dice fashioned from the knucklebones of sheep.
- U.S. News and World Report did a comparison of crime rates in cities with gambling versus those that do not. The crime rates were significantly higher in the places that allowed gambling.
- Men and women tend to have different preferences in their gambling. Men are more likely to gamble in games such as blackjack and lotteries and women are more likely to engage in bingo and raffles.
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