Gambling is a Waste of Money

Hello there, boys and girls.

If you live out of state or like to roam around having watched no TV news or listened to no radio news, you might not know that Governor Bob Riley's gambling task force thingy (and that's a technical law enforcement term) raided Victoryland in Shorter and Country Crossing in Dothan this morning.

Actually, allow me to rephrase: The task force thingy took a lot of cops and state troopers and stood in the parking lots of the two aforementioned places of business for several hours. Then, everyone went home mad.

If you want the specifics, go here www.montgomeryadvertiser.com and read the reports from our own Scott Johnson, who was fortunate enough to be at Victoryland this morning when the officers began to invade/chitchat quietly in the parking lot. We also have a fine photo gallery and some video. We're all over it, baby.

Anyway, I'm not here to report -- I'll leave that up to the people who have been following this -- or to take a stand, despite what the blog's subject title might lead you to believe. Instead, I'm just here in search of cheap hits and to play this thing aggravatingly down the middle.

Personally, I could care less if we gamble or if we don't gamble. Not a big thing to me. But I do wish we'd stop wasting money trying to figure out what we're going to do. Plus, I'm no expert in law enforcement management, but I have to believe that there were better things for 200 troopers to be doing this morning. Or are we leaving everything up to traffic cams now?

All that said, if we're going to have more of these raids, I plan to find out early and set up a coffee and donut stand in the parking lot.