A Michigan man was charged with assault after beating a woman during a game of Monopoly because she “would not sell her Boardwalk and Park Place properties” to him. Since this did not break any rules in Monopoly, game play persisted until the man won the game by sheer intimidation.
The 54-year-old Monopoly slumlord struck the woman in the head, breaking her glasses, she told authorities, forcing the unfair trade with his thug-like business tactics. After knocking her block off, he seized the properties in question without tendering any payment whatsoever.
Some sources have rumored that he placed hotels on the property without making the proper payments. Yet another source claims he manipulated the bank, causing a microcosm of the real-life housing crisis. “He was cooking the books,” said fictitious money analyst Jim Cramer.
The monopoly slum lord was arrested shortly after the game and charged with racketeering in addition to assault and battery.
The man was ordered not to pass go, and not to collect two hundred dollars and then sent directly to jail. However, he quickly paid the standard $50 bail bond and was set free next turn.
“He should be roaming the streets by morning,” the rule book says.
2 replies on “Illegal Monopoly strategy results in Michigan arrest”
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I slapped her glasses off. She deserved what she got.
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I would have to agree that slapping that bitch in the glasses was the right COA (course of action), given the circumstances, and that it could not have been more perfectly executed.
As Chief Executive of the Monopoly Association of America, I’d like to extend an offer out to you to come lecture at our business college – to give sharp, growing minds a chance to study your greatness, and learn how to force impossible trades, such as Park Place and Boardwalk for pennies on the dollar.
Michigan glows with pride over its most recent financial tycoon, Kenneth Repke, but we know you can go international. Get your slapping hand ready. You’re famous, now. Where you’re going, you’ll be slapping people who don’t even speak your language well enough to understand why it’s happening.