ROTHENBURGER: Here’s one party host who didn’t play his cards right
SOME GUY IN PINEVIEW VALLEY is more than three thousand dollars poorer today and I don’t feel at all sorry for him.
For those who missed the story yesterday, police were called to a home on Hugh Allan Drive about 1 a.m. Friday to break up an illegal card game. Those flashing lights outside were on a police cruiser, not a Christmas tree. Inside, RCMP found an “allegedly very uncooperative” host who was entertaining nine others.
The 37-year-old home owner ended up being fined $2,300 for contravening the order on gatherings and events, and $230 each for failure to comply with directions from an enforcement officer, promoting or encouraging attendance at a non-compliant gathering, and abusive or belligerent behaviour.
A poker party host having to cash in his chips and fork over three grand to the law is delicious enough in its irony that even the RCMP couldn’t resist a play on words in their news release. “A homeowner may have been winning in his game of cards but definitely lost his ante after being fined over $3,000 for hosting a non-covid-19 compliant game,” it said.