The Bama student that called in the bomb
by inigomontoya (2019-10-17 14:22:10)

Threat to the LSU stadium last weekend because his buddy was losing a bet had me wondering why that hasn’t happened before and why not?

I forget the exact rules for a football game to be considered official/complete game for most gambling house rules, but I believe has to be something like if game is ended early (I suppose weather or some other calamity) there has be less than 5 minutes to go in the game.

If there was a hoax bomb threat like the one that was made, at worst maybe would be an evacuation of the stadium like for thunderstorms and then people would pile back in.

But could someone orchestrate a bigger/more situation to end a game early and be called completely in order to efffectively cancel a bet that was losing?

Years ago I had a small bet on a game it was Nevada vs someone, and the game in fact was ended before the house rules and the bet was voided. Sometime during the 4th quarter a transformer a few miles away apparently failed and would have been hours to restore and the game was officially called and no make up. (I would have won give where the score was)

If someone had the desire to rig a mid game cancellation as a fail safe, what would the risks be?
-simply getting caught with whatever crime, threats, vandalism, destruction of property?

Or

- if a person enacted the fail-safe, then gambling regulators or wiseguys saying...how convenient—-so, you place a huge bet that was going to likely lose and now the game is voided???

And even if it did work and no one was suspicious and you got away with it, you would be crazy to ever try twice.





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