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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWoman arrested for hitting boyfriend during argument over a game of Monopoly
As a result the woman had to go straight to jail.
Officers in Hooksett, New Hampshire, came to the home of Alyssa Ferraro near midnight after getting a domestic disturbance call regarding the classic board game.
Ferraro, 21, told officers she got into an argument with her boyfriend over a game of Monopoly and open hand slapped him in the face, according to a police statement obtained by CBS Boston.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/alyssa-ferraro-monopoly-slap_n_6213978.html
Response to davidn3600 (Original post)
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)What he doesn't tell the participants is that he isn't looking at their play within the rules, but the side-deals they make with one another, which are actually kind of fascinating.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Recursion
(56,582 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)As long as I'm the banker, I always win!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I don't know what happens to me. I suddenly turn into the crooked banker and the sleazy real estate agent.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)If someone lands on a property and doesn't buy it, it's supposed to immediately go to auction. Highest bidder wins.
It makes a 2 hour game of Monopoly last 20-30 minutes tops.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)I didn't know people played without unbought property going into auction.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)My brother would consistently win against me, apparently he played without auctions with friends for years. Introduced the damn 'effin rules? He has never won against me. In fact, I have never once lost a game of monopoly with the auction rule enforced. Even with people trading properties and even with people giving out loans and stuff. (Against the rules.)
The auction is key. And everyone I've ever played with, after reading the rules, mind you, has failed to understand the auction dynamic. Monopoly is a dang board game, it should last no more than a half hour, but the auction is very often dismissed, in my experience.
I found a free online monopoly flash game, and the first thing I realized was just how different the "real" rules were compared to the games I played with childhood friends...
you made a funny
She does look sad for her crime though, we should let her go and just have her sit in jail for two rounds next time they play
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)MattBaggins
(7,904 posts)Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)He's a one trick pony
One trick is all that horse can do
He does one trick only
It's the principal source of his revenue
And when he steps into the spotlight
You can feel the heat of his heart
Come rising through
See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
The way his hooves just seem to glide
He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is)
But he turns that trick with pride
He makes it look so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony
He's a one trick pony
He either fails or he succeeds
He gives his testimony
Then he relaxes in the weeds
He's got one trick to last a lifetime
But that's all a pony needs
(that's all he needs)
He looks so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony (take me for a ride)
One trick pony
Hong Kong Cavalier
(4,573 posts)n/t
hughee99
(16,113 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Response to hughee99 (Reply #51)
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ecstatic
(32,712 posts)I dated a sore loser once. It really caught me off guard to see how hard he took losing (and light-hearted teasing). Had it ever lead to blows, I would have done exactly what the young man in this story did.
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)Then she could probably have killed him and not been arrested at all.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I had a friend who used to go absolutely bonkers whenever he had a bad roll playing Monopoly.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)I'm definitely that type...
Must be something that runs in the family -- No one dares say the real reason, but my extended family no longer plays cards against one another anymore, which used to be a regular tradition because we all know several games...
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)But Monopoly is so much fun
I'd hate to blow the game
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)blowing the game may be a crime in and of itself.
Sparhawk60
(359 posts)As long as he keeps it behind closed doors. lol
Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Leopolds Ghost
(12,875 posts)Based on what we now know about "stand your ground" ordinances, as they apply to private property, arguments over Boardwalk could get quite heated. especially if people are using a revolver as one of the pieces.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Unless I'm winning, in which case I'm the one saying that.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Damn, don't you wish this weren't real money?
Orrex
(63,216 posts)And watch your language.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)It should be folded, spindled and mutilated.
And thanks for the reminder. From now on I shall refer to it as cr*ps.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)That game is a little boring. Amirite?
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)There is and has never been a "friendly" game of Monopoly.
By definition, all games of Monopoly are implicitly hostile endeavors. True, they're never supposed to get physical. However, the rules are pretty much set up to turn all the players into utterly greedy assholes and their victims.
Some people simply aren't capable of dealing with any amount of humiliation and embarrassment, while others take entirely too much glee in dishing it out to others while playing the game.
Monopoly has been known to turn otherwise nice people into pricks. In a way, it's a lot like real life. When people live their lives, getting ahead by exploiting and abusing others, they've doing so because the rules of the game allows it to happen.
It's that way in any system of privilege and entitlement. To stop being that way, people need to stop playing the game.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I mean, that's not "all games of monopoly", that's basically all competitive games, period. Now, there are some cleverly crafted board games via which cooperation, not competition, is central to "winning", but they are the exception to the rule, and even in the case I mention, the point is to win against the game itself. So the competitive aspect; trying to "win"- seems to be hard-wired into our very notion of what constitutes a "game".
Which is not to say all play is competitive. Legos, Minecraft on creative mode.. plenty of profound and more importantly fun experiences can be had through making or building or designing, etc. Yes, yes and all true.
Still, monopoly is hardly alone in being a cuthroat endeavor. My problem with monopoly isn't hostility to anything except the hours of my life it is sucking from my day. The cardinal sin of that game isn't that it encourages capitalism, it's that it is as boring as watching paint dry.
Or as my now-deceased old man used to call it, "Monotony".
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)Usually at that point the board goes flying across the room.... especially if the owner of Boardwalk is the banker who you just know has been cheating the whole damn game.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)It starts family fights. It ruins holiday family get-togethers.
If I get roped in, my money "disappears" and I go broke fast. Anything to stop playing.
Capitalism works the same way: all but one go broke.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)jamzrockz
(1,333 posts)It always ends with someone being butthurt. At least that's just about how it ended in my family.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Now look at the couple arrested for having sex in their car next to a jail
...is this like some new Millennial hipster fad? Instagranning your sad face mugshot, or twurting it or flapjacking or tindering it or whatever it is you kids do?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)She never hit so hard...
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)And licking hallucinogenic toads.
But we played board games too.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)you know you are getting old.
Vinca
(50,278 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...who knows that if she'll do that once, she'll do it again, and again and eventually he'll hit her back, and then SHE will call the cops and HE will go to jail.
closeupready
(29,503 posts)Oh, wait, you said guy...
Rex
(65,616 posts)I can make em an offer that they cannot refuse, for Park Place and Boardwalk. I have plans for some big red hotels. Maybe a few small green motels on Baltic Avenue.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)My wife and I refuse to play it. We don't call it Monopoly. We've taken to calling it the game of Divorce.