[MR] Pearl Promenade Passport Prizes and Thanks

[Logan]

weeee  daddy-hood!  it would have been so much easier had my son not been
ultrasound(ed) with a labia!  labia?  really!

my question is based only on my understanding of the definition of gambling.
that definition requires, in all states, the wager and potential loss of
something of value to engage in the blind chance of winning something of
greater value.  paying admission to an event that everyone attending the
event isnt considered as such.  at least when i dealt with this just a few
years ago and checking with the laws of ga/sc/nc/va/and md.  from what ive
read, and based on what i learned just a few years ago, i dont see how what
vels is suggesting could be confused with any definition of gambling.  also,
since the kingdom isnt involved, i cant see why this is even a concern.
perhaps im missing something?

regards
logan

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-----Original Message-----
From: atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
[mailto:atlantia-bounces at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org] On Behalf Of Terri
Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 11:21 PM
To: atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] Pearl Promenade Passport Prizes and Thanks

The father-to-be wrote:
> how is it gambling?  
> does the person with one of these passport things actually wager money? 
>  or anything of value that would be considered a loss?
> regards, logan

Some county (and/or state) legislations have really, really odd ways of
looking at such a thing. I know that one of the counties in North Carolina
(don't know about the rest) views anything offered as a 'lottery' based on
'ticket sales' (price of admission) as gambling. *We* might not see it that
way, but they do and it sure adds to the headache of the exchequer's office.
Mistress Anne most likely has a nice file with all the ins and outs about it
that she can use to guide Vels' fun project to fruition.

If you think her caution was weird, you should have seen what I hit up
against one year when we thought we were going to be selling lottery tickets
for a fund-raiser at Pennsic. Whoa, was that a kerflop! I think I nearly
made the Lord Mayor have a heart attack that year, bringing an out-of-state
'raffle' to his War!


Hrothny
 


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