That’s an awful name for a band, but it would be appropriate for a Police cover band that worked casinos. I wonder if Scrantonicity II will get any gigs when Sands Bethworks opens up?
Oh yeah, here’s a story about how intransigent players who don’t pay off their markers hear from the Clark County bad check unit–another bad band name. From the LV Sun:
Had she instead used her credit card, collection of the debt most likely would be a civil matter. But failure to pay off a marker can leave a debtor facing prison time or, more likely, probation for a felony conviction. An alternative is to commit to a rigid schedule to pay off the debt — plus an administrative fee to the district attorney’s bad check unit.
What amounts to a civil dispute in most of the nation is a criminal matter in Nevada, as encouraged under a 1983 state statute and practiced since the late 1990s. That statute equates a marker to a check. Thus, an unpaid marker is equivalent to a bounced check, and bouncing a check is classified as theft.
“It’s a crime to steal from somebody,” says Bernard Zadrowski, who heads the bad check unit. “Because the victim happens to be a casino, so what? Casinos have a right to justice just like individuals do.”
So even if you don’t pay off your markers, you should at least talk to your host about it, because otherwise you might be getting a call from the bad check unit. This is an interesting look inside a lesser-known area of casino finance.