# A slot machine that "wasn't gambling"?

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**Created:** [January 23, 2021, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slot-machine-that-wasnt-gambling/931280 "2021-01-23T11:34:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2023, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-slot-machine-that-wasnt-gambling/931280/83 "2023-03-22T15:17:16Z")

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There was a biker bar in the small town closest to me, they closed last year. Some different people rented the building and put a bunch of those “legal” gambling machines in there, I drove by one night and the inside of the little building was lit up like Vegas. But they never opened, and a month or so later I saw their application to run a game room was denied by the town council, the new owners were quoted as saying something like “I didn’t know games were so bad, there was a biker bar there before I guess we should have opened another one of those.”

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