When bingo player Rochelle Olson sued comedian Sascha Baron Cohen, or rather his alias Bruno, she had no idea that the outcome would end up with her being ordered to pay the funny man’s legal expenses. After a lengthy court battle, judges ruled in favour of Cohen and Olson was left to pick up the costs.
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A fight at a bingo hall in Charlotte, North Carolina ended in disaster when two players were wounded. The fight broke out over a dispute about a game, which caused one player to pull out a knife, wounding two other players in the process. Doris Deese and her son Curtis were at R & L Beach Bingo on Wilkinson Boulevard when the fight broke out.
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An astounding £5 million plus in unclaimed lottery prizes has been sitting at the UK National Lottery since November 2009, as no winners have come forward to claim their prizes. With huge prizes that reach well into the triple digits, this comes as a shock to many. What makes someone not claim a win, and how are winners able to lose out on such a huge windfall?
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As online bingo sites step up their bingo promotions and offers, casinos are also starting to get in on the rewards, resulting in an overlap between the two.
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Pensioners in a North Whales council estate have been battling to play bingo after an eight foot fence was erected in place of the shortcut they had been using to get to Llanddulas Royal British Legion, where they enjoy regular bingo games. Now these old age pensioners have to endure a 200 yard uphill walk through the estate, or miss out on their favourite pastime.
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While bingo players have nearly always consisted of more women than men, lately there has been an increase of male players as more sites begin to target a broader audience. Gone are the overly pink and girly sites that cater to the female masses; in their place are sites that have a toned down neutral look, with darker greys, blacks, whites and purples rather than the pastel pinks seen before.
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A recent charity event hosted bingo games in Brewton, Alabama, to raise money for the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life event. The games gave players a chance to enjoy a few rounds of bingo, with proceeds going to a highly worthwhile cause.
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The bingo game has had a total revival over the past year or two, with new clubs for the young, trendy and fashionable opening up across the US and the UK. These clubs offer a winning combination of bingo and partying, allowing players to play a few rounds of bingo before enjoying a few drinks and some dancing, with some of the world’s top DJ’s spinning the beats.
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A recent online bingo advert for a leading UK bingo group has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for racist connotations and stigmatisation. The advert depicts a white man in a suit and a black man in a floral shirt, both sitting around a campfire on a beach. The black man plays a ukulele and repeats in song everything that the white man says.
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The bingo player hailed as ‘Britain’s most shameless woman’ is asking for more benefits, after claims have emerged that she has spent most of her current benefits on bingo and electronic gaming machines. Julie Potten, a 38 year old Kent resident, receives £92 a week for incapacity benefits due to her mood swings.
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A recent bingo hall arson report has been linked to other fires that have been purposefully set in the past few weeks. The arson incident took place in the town of Beaumont in the United States, where a fire was started in a shed in the back of the hall. Luckily, no one was hurt in the incident but officials have not disclosed the damage caused.
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Yet another crime has occurred at a bingo hall, this time in the parking lot of the Bingo Palace in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In an incident that rocked this sleepy US town to its core, a woman was robbed at gun point as she was getting out of her car when arriving at her local hall. Grand Forks Police Sgt.
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One of the worst crimes a bingo player can commit is that of theft within the game. In Masaryktown, Brooksville an unnamed female was arrested for the heinous crime of cheque forgery in her local Masaryktown bingo hall. When Amanda Thomas strolled into the halls of the Masaryktown Community Centre, she went straight for the cashier with two packs of bingo cards.
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Bingo machines have now been banned across California, after the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a preliminary injunction that had previously permitted the machines to operate in the state.
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Many players have been deeply saddened to see bingo halls across the country having been reduced to rubble. Continuous development across many towns and cities has seen a number of classic Art Deco buildings that were once cinemas or theatres, and were reinvented as bingo halls in the 1960’s and 1970’s, now demolished to make way for sky-rise apartments and office blocks.
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New Indian bingo game show National Bingo Night on the Colors network has received the country’s highest opening television viewers rating of any debuting celebrity show in the country. Hosted by popular Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan, the show received a rating of 5.1 by the TV rating agency TAM Media Research.
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Popular directory and portal Bingostreet has opened nominations for their Online Bingo Site of the Year for 2009, which allows players to choose their favourites from the nominees who make the grade for being the best of the best.
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