City workers disciplined over ‘Dead Pool’

[proud2BlibKansan]

Some Leawood Public Works Department employees have been disciplined for betting on the final homicide total in Kansas City this year.



The “Dead Pool” worked this way: Employees put money into a pot and whoever guessed the correct number of homicides would win the cash. City Administrator Scott Lambers confirmed the pool’s existence Thursday after an anonymous e-mail was sent to local media outlets. He said eight to 10 employees were involved.



“I was advised of the possibility it existed, determined that it did exist, and the employees involved were disciplined,” he said.



Lambers would not comment on disciplinary action. But the e-mail claims most of the employees involved received one-week suspensions, with the pot holder and a supervisor who did not participate but knew about the pool receiving two-week suspensions.

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/13137517.htm

[gratuitous]

1. How incredibly stupid do you have to be?

Not to do something like this -- hell, people will bet on anything -- but to get caught? I'd summarily fire them just for unnecessary stupidity. And if there wasn't such a clause in the civil service contract, I'd make sure it got written into the next one.

[Spinzonner]

2. Why not try and see if the winners can predict times and locations too ?

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. That would be the way I would want to do it n/t

[TheDebbieDee]

7. Hahahahahahahaha!

[proud2BlibKansan]

4. It has become a racial issue

Leawood is a wealthy suburban area - probably 110% white. The African AMerican activists in Kansas City are outraged over this.

[ochazuke]

3. Well, 50 years ago, by thier City charter...

...they wouldn't let "Negros, Turks, Orientals, or Jews" live in Leawood, so I guess this is progress?

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. Knowing Leawood,

that is probably still in their charter.

For years, they allowed no signs in yards - ever. So residents who were having garage sales would hang shirts on crossed sticks and stick them on the corner with one sleeve pointing in the direction of the garage sale.

[TheDebbieDee]

8. I thought the real reason for the "No signs" ordinance

was so that (non-residents/non-white) people living outside of Leawood wouldn't know which houses were for "For Sale".

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Probably so

It certainly wouldn't surprise me.

I grew up in Prairie Village. We always hated those Leawood snobs.