PSA: If you cheat at Monopoly . . .

[Bateluer]

http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-monopoly-stabbing,0,6756278.story

SANTA FE, NM. (KTLA) -- A 60-year old woman has gone directly to jail after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend following a game of Monopoly.

Police say Laura Chavez flew into rage after accusing her 48-year-old boyfriend of cheating at the board game.

She reportedly broke a bottle over the victim's head, before repeatedly stabbing him with a kitchen knife.

When officers arrived at the Santa Fe property in the early hours of Wednesday they found the victim "bleeding heavily from his head and right wrist area," Deputy Kurt Whyte told The Sante Fe New Mexican.

Chavez was arrested on suspicion of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, battery upon a peace officer and assault upon a peace officer.

Her boyfriend remained in the hospital.

First, WTF!?

Second, this has a boyfriend?

 

[sjwaste]

Don't do meth, folks.

 

[tm37]

Did he actually cheat?

If so she will have a strong case for justifiable battery.

I am interested in how bad he was winning.

 

[gevorg]

It must be that time.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

If it takes you more than 3 hours to win or, lose, a game of monopoly, you're doing it wrong.

 

[Pardus]

 

[HamburgerBoy]

My aunt cheated at Monopoly against one of my brothers. He still hasn't forgiven her.

 

[Lord Zado]

My parents "cheated" at Monopoly when I was younger. I still tease them about it to this day. Monopoly is serious business!

My parents claim it wasn't cheating, but basically, it was 3 of us playing and I was winning and my mother landed on my property and was going to lose everything she had, but rather than sell everything back to the bank, she sold everything to my father at a discounted price and he paid off her debt to me. So all of the sudden, he had more properties than me and eventually beat me. You shouldn't be able to sell properties directly to other players. Trading is fine.

 

[purbeast0]

SANTA FE, NM. (KTLA) -- A 60-year old woman has gone directly to jail after allegedly stabbing her boyfriend following a game of Monopoly.

god damn that line owns.

only would have been better if they said she did not collect $200.

 

[Jaepheth]

My parents "cheated" at Monopoly when I was younger. I still tease them about it to this day. Monopoly is serious business!

My parents claim it wasn't cheating, but basically, it was 3 of us playing and I was winning and my mother landed on my property and was going to lose everything she had, but rather than sell everything back to the bank, she sold everything to my father at a discounted price and he paid off her debt to me. So all of the sudden, he had more properties than me and eventually beat me. You shouldn't be able to sell properties directly to other players. Trading is fine.

That's not cheating.
That's a "Fuck you" exit strategy and is perfectly legit.

 

[GundamW]

My parents "cheated" at Monopoly when I was younger. I still tease them about it to this day. Monopoly is serious business!

My parents claim it wasn't cheating, but basically, it was 3 of us playing and I was winning and my mother landed on my property and was going to lose everything she had, but rather than sell everything back to the bank, she sold everything to my father at a discounted price and he paid off her debt to me. So all of the sudden, he had more properties than me and eventually beat me. You shouldn't be able to sell properties directly to other players. Trading is fine.

lol. Good for them.
Just like in real world, buy up others and squash the competition.

 

[NetWareHead]

That's not cheating.
That's a "Fuck you" exit strategy and is perfectly legit.

It sure is a "fuck you" exit strategy but how is that legit? I need to check the rules when I get home but the way we always played is that if you cant pay cash when landing on another player's property, then you need to find other ways to complete the transaction until the debt is paid. The steps are as follows:

1. Exhaust all available cash
2. Sell any hotels/houses back to the bank
3. Mortgage properties to the bank.
4. Sell properties to the player who you owe debt to.
5. If not possible, then bankruptcy and all assets revert to the player owed.

Mom cant just start another transaction with dad while a debt is owed to her son, sell him her property and dad pays her debt. Dad acquired mom's properties when it should have gone to the son.

 

[Krazy4Real]

god damn that line owns.

only would have been better if they said she did not collect $200.

Haha! Yeah, I laughed when I read that too.

 

[CPA]

It sure is a "fuck you" exit strategy but how is that legit? I need to check the rules when I get home but the way we always played is that if you cant pay cash when landing on another player's property, then you need to find other ways to complete the transaction until the debt is paid. The steps are as follows:

1. Exhaust all available cash
2. Sell any hotels/houses back to the bank
3. Mortgage properties to the bank.
4. Sell properties to the player who you owe debt to.
5. If not possible, then bankruptcy and all assets revert to the player owed.

Mom cant just start another transaction with dad while a debt is owed to her son, sell him her property and dad pays her debt. Dad acquired mom's properties when it should have gone to the son.

Looks like NetwareHead is right:

BANKRUPTCY
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You are declared bankrupt if you owe more than you can pay either to another player or to the Bank. If your debt is to another player, you must turn over to that player all that you have of value and retire from the game.
In making this settlement, if you own houses or hotels, you must return these to the Bank in exchange for money to the extent of one-half the amount paid for them.
This cash is given to the creditor. If you have mortgaged property you also turn this property over to your creditor but the new owner must at once pay the Bank the amount of interest on the loan, which is 10% of the value of the property.
The new owner who does this may then, at their option, pay the principal or hold the property until some later turn, then lift the mortgage. If they hold property in this way until a later turn, they must pay the interest again upon lifting the mortgage.
Should you owe the Bank, instead of another player, more than you can pay (because of taxes or penalties) even by selling off buildings and mortgaging property, you must turn over all assets to the Bank. In this case, the Bank immediately sells by auction all property so taken, except buildings. A bankrupt player must immediately retire from the game. The last player left in the game wins.


MISCELLANEOUS
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Money can be loaned to a player only by the Bank and then only by mortgaging property. No player may borrow from or lend money to another player.

 

[digiram]

I used to cheat against my kids in Mario Monopoly. I would trade a kirby (purple) for her Mario or Luigi (blue).. haha. Hope they don't stab me while I'm asleep.. haha

 

[AstroManLuca]

My parents "cheated" at Monopoly when I was younger. I still tease them about it to this day. Monopoly is serious business!

My parents claim it wasn't cheating, but basically, it was 3 of us playing and I was winning and my mother landed on my property and was going to lose everything she had, but rather than sell everything back to the bank, she sold everything to my father at a discounted price and he paid off her debt to me. So all of the sudden, he had more properties than me and eventually beat me. You shouldn't be able to sell properties directly to other players. Trading is fine.

A similar thing happened to me the last time I played Monopoly. One player landed on my Boardwalk with a hotel on it. She proceeded to sell all her properties to another player for $1 each, then gave me what little money she had. So I only got maybe $500 out of the whole thing when I should have either gotten all her properties OR the combined mortgage value of all her properties. I don't even remember if we finished the game or not (monopoly rarely ends), but later on I realized that what she did was not allowed.

 

[Wyndru]

Let me guess, there were drugs/alcohol involved.

Oh, and that graph is so accurate, the game just drags on. Just like trivial pursuit.

 

[TwiceOver]

Ya know, it is beautiful down there in NM. And the temps were actually tollerable for a northern boy like myself. But you just can't get past how crazy the people look, and obviously are.

 

[JulesMaximus]

A similar thing happened to me the last time I played Monopoly. One player landed on my Boardwalk with a hotel on it. She proceeded to sell all her properties to another player for $1 each, then gave me what little money she had. So I only got maybe $500 out of the whole thing when I should have either gotten all her properties OR the combined mortgage value of all her properties. I don't even remember if we finished the game or not (monopoly rarely ends), but later on I realized that what she did was not allowed.

Did you smash a bottle over her head and proceed to stab her repeatedly until the cops showed up?

 

[thraashman]

My parents "cheated" at Monopoly when I was younger. I still tease them about it to this day. Monopoly is serious business!

My parents claim it wasn't cheating, but basically, it was 3 of us playing and I was winning and my mother landed on my property and was going to lose everything she had, but rather than sell everything back to the bank, she sold everything to my father at a discounted price and he paid off her debt to me. So all of the sudden, he had more properties than me and eventually beat me. You shouldn't be able to sell properties directly to other players. Trading is fine.

Friends and I played Monopoly a couple times in the student center when we had large gaps between classes in college. After one game bogged down and no one would make trades or deals unless they were ridiculously in their favor (wanting 3 more expensive properties than the 1 I was trying to get and stuff like that), I decided to do something like this. I paid every cent I had to the person being the least dickish for his cheapest property. I then sold him everything I had for $1.

Note: I did this deal when I wasn't in any financial worry to pay off a debt when landing on a property. I was just picking the winner.