# Stupid arrest, "silly" sentence: "You can't say 'Bingo!' for six months." How far can a judge go?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 22, 2013, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-arrest-silly-sentence-you-cant-say-bingo-for-six-months-how-far-can-a-judge-go/653649 "2013-03-22T15:59:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2013, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-arrest-silly-sentence-you-cant-say-bingo-for-six-months-how-far-can-a-judge-go/653649/21 "2013-03-25T05:52:25Z")

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> [@Leo\_Bloom](#):
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> [A man shouted “Bingo!” in a crowded Bingo hall.](http://www.newser.com/story/164707/man-banned-from-yelling-bingo.html)  
> … I don’t know if using a tone of voice indicated by exclamation point in the “Bingo!” sentence could be held against the guy, but the whole thing (as was obvious to the Judge) is absurd.
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> … Now, I really don’t fear for the First Amendment, although I don’t know the original case that this one apparently so closely and frighteningly resembles…

So, someone must know which case it was?

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