Money on the floor is your money

Just like in a bar or anywhere else, the general rule of thumb in society has always been money found on the floor, is finders keepers, loser’s weepers. It’s the same with food, if you find food on the floor, you can consider it discarded, just like a cigarette, any homeless person will confirm this. That’s how society has functioned since pre-school. But apparently that’s not how things work at The Meadows Race Track and Casino in Washington County Pa.

An 82 year old was charged by police for theft for picking up and keeping the $15 he found on the casino floor. The man did what any normal 82-year old man who knows the value of a dollar would do when he saw another patron discard the money, and that’s pick it up.
William Dobosh is now being charged with theft by police for violating a state law that prohibits picking money or chips off the gaming floor and keeping them.

What the hell kind of law is that? And how the hell did a law like that get passed? Basically, anything that hits the ground in the casino is theirs. It’s not like this man the Bellagio chip thief. It’s hard to believe that police would actually waste resources and time to charge the man, when in all likelihood, he’ll be back to the casino later this week to spend those $15 that are burning a hole in his pocket.

Just to be clear, there’s really only one place where money on the floor is not up for grabs, and that’s at a strip club, somebody put in work for that shit.

It’s this type of harassment of the elderly that makes online gambling all that more attractive. At the very least, money found on the floor in your own house belongs to you, until the wife gets home anyway.

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