A distressing new video that was filmed at an unidentified casino has gone popular on social media. On Twitter, it has received 11 million views and purportedly depicts a woman urinating while seated at a slot machine. Unidentified woman watches as liquid splashes on the base of her slot stool while holding a cell phone to her left ear.
It’s assumed that she didn’t want to stop playing for any reason. Urinating on casino floors isn’t as rare as one might believe, as unsettling as it may seem.
An ex-problem gambler named Arnie Wexler told the Louisville Courier-Journal in 2007 that many heavy gamblers wear adult diapers to avoid having to leave a slot machine or gaming table. Wexler at the time ran a gambling hotline and counseling service out of New Jersey. He claimed that if they are unprepared, they “simply pee in the seat.”
Wexler was quoted in an article about a video poker player who at the Caesars Southern Indiana casino chose to try his luck at the machine next to his before filing a complaint with the Indiana Gaming Commission. The player discovered that his soggy shorts needed to be changed much more urgently than his luck.
For obvious reasons, casinos prefer never to acknowledge this problem. However, for the Courier-Journal article, a Caesars Southern Indiana spokesperson made the rare admission of having “a procedure to immediately remove broken and soiled chairs from the gaming floor.” According to Wexler, all major casinos have “seat changers,” a crew dedicated to removing soiled chairs and replacing their cushions. (The Caesars spokesperson admitted that her casino “dropped the ball” in this particular case.)
Gary Green, former manager of an Oklahoma casino he asked Casino.org not to name, confirmed just how routine seat-peeing is.
“We had an entire storage area of pee-soaked cloth chairs from this bizarre behavior,” he said. “It was neither rare nor surprising, at least at that property.”
Why They Won’t Leave
“I used to work security for a casino,” claimed one of the commenters on the new Twitter video. “If they weren’t with a friend who could hold their spot or [weren’t] close to a bathroom they would do their bidness (sic) right there. I would go whole 12-hour shifts and watch people not budge an inch.”
Compulsive gamblers often believe the myth that once they start playing a machine, they must continue until they hit a jackpot, regardless of what bodily needs might present themselves.
If they should leave, their thinking goes, someone else who has been watching their play might swoop in and enjoy “their” jackpot. Alternatively, if they’re winning, players often believe they can’t leave a machine because it’s “hot.”
By the way, every possible jackpot has the same preprogrammed chance of occurring on every spin. There is absolutely no cumulative memory of previous spins.
How Illegal is This?
In Nevada, urinating on a casino floor is a misdemeanor. A convicted first-time offender can receive up to a $2,000 fine and/or 364 days in a county jail.
If the offender is a male who decides to spare his pants, he could also face an indecent exposure charge, forcing him to register as a sex offender.
In 2021, a man allegedly urinated on himself and the floor of the Presque Isle Downs & Casino sportsbook in Erie, Penn., according to the Meadville Tribune newspaper. He faced a fine of $50 plus court costs and fees of $164.25, according to the citation, which was discharged as part of a plea deal.
Having covered all this, the viral video in question raises as many questions as it does issues.
First of all, how did a videographer, standing more than 10 feet away, just happen to capture the exact moment this woman urinated? In the video, any sound from her supposed urine stream is drowned out by the ambient casino noise.
The upside of staging a scene for social media virality far outweighs the downside, particularly if the liquid came from an overturned water bottle, which wouldn’t be a crime.
Incidentally, if you decide to search for the video to judge for yourself, be forewarned. A sexist caption used to describe the woman is as vile as the supposed act itself.
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