Myrna Jones from Mount Vernon played $1 slot machines at the Yonkers Raceway casino. She won $80 but the machine did not produce a winner’s slip, so she called security. And then the nightmare began.
She was promply taken to a room where a state trooper accused her of hiding the slip in her bra as a scam to get another. A security woman conducted a strip search. They found nothing. After they kept her for two and a half hours, they came and said that they found the ticket in the machine.
The story was reported by wcbstv. You can watch the video here.
Some people might say that the casino should be able to protect itself against criminals. True. But it should be their risk if they become overzealous and invade the privacy of normal people.
Maybe with airport searches we are not shocked any more with these procedures (”don’t you feel safer?” I am often asked.) We are getting accustomed that the end justifies the means. Let the police tazer us, if we ask a long question, let us take off the shoes and throw away water bottles, let them listen to our private conversations, and analyze our emails, because this is all for a good purpose. Stop complaining.
But the 65-year-old great-grandmother is suing. I salute her!
And another thing. The State Police did not return the call of the reporter. Why? And why should the public cooperate with the police if they don’t cooperate with the public?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Weirded Out // Nov 13, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Why was a state trooper involved at all? Don’t they mainly issue speeding tickets?
It took 2.5 hours to search the machine?
Weird.
2 Right On! // Nov 14, 2007 at 12:20 am
I salute her too!
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