When I saw TWO WOMEN GET INTO FIGHT IN FOXWOODS LADIES ROOM, I was disappointed that it wasn't the punchline of a joke, but rather 2 women fighting in a Foxwoods Resort Casino restroom.
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The blogger's comment?
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EDITORIAL FOOTNOTE: Does either Connecticut casino (Mohegan Sun Casino, Foxwoods Resort Casino, MGM Grand at Foxwoods) need this kind of PR?
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For years, both casinos have failed to accept their own social responsibility and ensure that patrons leaving their wildly profitable sovereign territory were sober.
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Were either slot parlor a commercial entity, their liquor licenses would have been revoked years ago and the judicial system would have compelled compliance.
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MADD has focused on changing the laws and reducing the numbers of intoxicated drivers on Massachusetts roads with which I'm familiar.
CT MADD reports -- In Connecticut 101 people were killed in 2007 in alcohol related crashes, down 12% from the previous year.
It appears that Connecticut's Attorney General may have some impact on changing the business behavior of the slot parlors --
HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal on Monday said tribal casinos are not immune from state laws pertaining to liquor sales.
Blumenthal submitted an amicus brief to the state Appellate Court asking the court to overturn a recent trial court ruling that exempted tribal casinos from certain liquor laws.
Blumenthal filed the brief in support of Emily Vanstaen-Holland and her mother, Susan Holland, who are suing the Mohegan Tribal Gaming Authority and others in connection with an accident in which Emily Vanstaen-Holland, a pedestrian, was struck by someone allegedly intoxicated after drinking at Mohegan Sun.
Sometimes, financial liability is the only thing that makes a good neighbor.
Too bad the blogger isn't worried about these folks and the others killed after feeding the slots --
In March, a 23-year-old Navy sailor, who later reportedly told police that he had four or five drinks over the course of the evening at a Mohegan Sun club, struck a van carrying seven students headed to Boston's Logan Airport.
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Elizabeth Durante, one of the traveling students, died at the scene. Less than a month later, a local construction worker, who had been drinking at the same bar, struck and killed a 59-year-old Willimantic woman.
When you make your money from predatory gambling, you're worried about bad pr?
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