Woman arrested for hitting boyfriend during argument over a game of Monopoly

[davidn3600]

A friendly game of Monopoly turned ugly Sunday night when a woman slapped her boyfriend in the heat of anger.

As a result the woman had to go straight to jail.

Officers in Hooksett, New Hampshire, came to the home of Alyssa Ferraro near midnight after getting a domestic disturbance call regarding the classic board game.

Ferraro, 21, told officers “she got into an argument with her boyfriend over a game of Monopoly and open hand slapped him in the face,” according to a police statement obtained by CBS Boston.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/24/alyssa-ferraro-monopoly-slap_n_6213978.html

[Recursion]

11. An economist friend of mine studies it

What he doesn't tell the participants is that he isn't looking at their play within the rules, but the side-deals they make with one another, which are actually kind of fascinating.

[Warren DeMontague]

13. Which is kind of how the actual economy works, too.

[Recursion]

14. Ain't it, though? (nt)

[Warren DeMontague]

18. I like to play Monopoly with Collateralized Debt Obligations combined with Credit Default Swaps.

As long as I'm the banker, I always win!

[smirkymonkey]

38. I am a liberal socialist except when I play Monopoly.

I don't know what happens to me. I suddenly turn into the crooked banker and the sleazy real estate agent.

[joshcryer]

17. If people read the rules they'd know about auctions.

If someone lands on a property and doesn't buy it, it's supposed to immediately go to auction. Highest bidder wins.

It makes a 2 hour game of Monopoly last 20-30 minutes tops.

[Recursion]

19. I've always played with that. I'm talking about rent-immunity swaps and other things.

I didn't know people played without unbought property going into auction.

[joshcryer]

30. I literally hated that game until I learned about auctions.

My brother would consistently win against me, apparently he played without auctions with friends for years. Introduced the damn 'effin rules? He has never won against me. In fact, I have never once lost a game of monopoly with the auction rule enforced. Even with people trading properties and even with people giving out loans and stuff. (Against the rules.)

The auction is key. And everyone I've ever played with, after reading the rules, mind you, has failed to understand the auction dynamic. Monopoly is a dang board game, it should last no more than a half hour, but the auction is very often dismissed, in my experience.

[Blue_Tires]

44. +1

I found a free online monopoly flash game, and the first thing I realized was just how different the "real" rules were compared to the games I played with childhood friends...

[snooper2]

42. LOL

you made a funny

She does look sad for her crime though, we should let her go and just have her sit in jail for two rounds next time they play

[geek tragedy]

2. .

[MattBaggins]

8. oh yeah

[Tuesday Afternoon]

41. that calls for a song ...

He's a one trick pony
One trick is all that horse can do
He does one trick only
It's the principal source of his revenue
And when he steps into the spotlight
You can feel the heat of his heart
Come rising through

See how he dances
See how he loops from side to side
See how he prances
The way his hooves just seem to glide
He's just a one trick pony (that's all he is)
But he turns that trick with pride

He makes it look so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day
One-trick pony

He's a one trick pony
He either fails or he succeeds
He gives his testimony
Then he relaxes in the weeds
He's got one trick to last a lifetime
But that's all a pony needs
(that's all he needs)
He looks so easy
He looks so clean
He moves like god's
Immaculate machine
He makes me think about
All of these extra movements I make
And all of this herky-jerky motion
And the bag of tricks it takes
To get me through my working day

One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony, one trick pony
One-trick pony (take me for a ride)
One trick pony

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

45. +1

n/t

[hughee99]

47. ???? n/t

[geek tragedy]

49. Some posters have well-established patterns of behavior. nt

[hughee99]

51. Yes, I agree. Some posters do. n/t

[ecstatic]

3. sore losers

I dated a sore loser once. It really caught me off guard to see how hard he took losing (and light-hearted teasing). Had it ever lead to blows, I would have done exactly what the young man in this story did.

[SoCalMusicLover]

4. Too Bad She Isn't A Cop

Then she could probably have killed him and not been arrested at all.

[Luminous Animal]

5. Good. Everybody fucking keep their hands to themselves.

[NaturalHigh]

6. There must be something about Monopoly.

I had a friend who used to go absolutely bonkers whenever he had a bad roll playing Monopoly.

[Blue_Tires]

46. Folks get hyper-competitive and take things too seriously sometimes

I'm definitely that type...

Must be something that runs in the family -- No one dares say the real reason, but my extended family no longer plays cards against one another anymore, which used to be a regular tradition because we all know several games...

[Brother Buzz]

7. Maybe we should call the cops and try to stop the pain

But Monopoly is so much fun
I'd hate to blow the game

[Warren DeMontague]

16. You better check your local jurisdiction and statutes, buddy

blowing the game may be a crime in and of itself.

[Sparhawk60]

23. Who Are We to Judge

As long as he keeps it behind closed doors. lol

[Brother Buzz]

40. And I'm sure it wouldn't interest anybody outside of a small circle of friends

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. Good thing her boyfriend isn't a cop, either.

Based on what we now know about "stand your ground" ordinances, as they apply to private property, arguments over Boardwalk could get quite heated. especially if people are using a revolver as one of the pieces.

[Recursion]

10. I usually start punching the third time someone says "don't you wish this were real money?"

Unless I'm winning, in which case I'm the one saying that.

[Warren DeMontague]

15. That's why I shoot craps.

Damn, don't you wish this weren't real money?

[Orrex]

32. Shooting is never the answer.

And watch your language.

[pinboy3niner]

33. Shooting is too good for it

It should be folded, spindled and mutilated.

And thanks for the reminder. From now on I shall refer to it as cr*ps.

[Warren DeMontague]

12. The most exciting thing to ever happen in a monopoly game, ever.

That game is a little boring. Amirite?

[Travis_0004]

20. A game of monopoly doesnt end until somebody flips the table

[MrScorpio]

21. Let's dispense with the lies, shall we?

There is and has never been a "friendly" game of Monopoly.

By definition, all games of Monopoly are implicitly hostile endeavors. True, they're never supposed to get physical. However, the rules are pretty much set up to turn all the players into utterly greedy assholes and their victims.

Some people simply aren't capable of dealing with any amount of humiliation and embarrassment, while others take entirely too much glee in dishing it out to others while playing the game.

Monopoly has been known to turn otherwise nice people into pricks. In a way, it's a lot like real life. When people live their lives, getting ahead by exploiting and abusing others, they've doing so because the rules of the game allows it to happen.

It's that way in any system of privilege and entitlement. To stop being that way, people need to stop playing the game.

[Warren DeMontague]

24. No offense, man, but I think you may be reading a bit much into it.

I mean, that's not "all games of monopoly", that's basically all competitive games, period. Now, there are some cleverly crafted board games via which cooperation, not competition, is central to "winning", but they are the exception to the rule, and even in the case I mention, the point is to win against the game itself. So the competitive aspect; trying to "win"- seems to be hard-wired into our very notion of what constitutes a "game".

Which is not to say all play is competitive. Legos, Minecraft on creative mode.. plenty of profound and more importantly fun experiences can be had through making or building or designing, etc. Yes, yes and all true.

Still, monopoly is hardly alone in being a cuthroat endeavor. My problem with monopoly isn't hostility to anything except the hours of my life it is sucking from my day. The cardinal sin of that game isn't that it encourages capitalism, it's that it is as boring as watching paint dry.

Or as my now-deceased old man used to call it, "Monotony".

[davidn3600]

25. Usually ends pretty quick though when someone lands on Boardwalk with a hotel

Usually at that point the board goes flying across the room.... especially if the owner of Boardwalk is the banker who you just know has been cheating the whole damn game.

[Warren DeMontague]

27. YOU GUYS ARE MAKING THIS A METAPHOR FOR SOMETHING, I'M SURE OF IT

[Ilsa]

31. I hate playing that game.

It starts family fights. It ruins holiday family get-togethers.

If I get roped in, my money "disappears" and I go broke fast. Anything to stop playing.

Capitalism works the same way: all but one go broke.

[snooper2]

43. I thought it was Hungry Hungry Hippo that did that?

[jamzrockz]

22. Good ole monopoly

It always ends with someone being butthurt. At least that's just about how it ended in my family.

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Is November the month of the Sad Clown Mugshot, or what?

Now look at the couple arrested for having sex in their car next to a jail





...is this like some new Millennial hipster fad? Instagranning your sad face mugshot, or twurting it or flapjacking or tindering it or whatever it is you kids do?

[pinboy3niner]

28. She came in like a Wrecking Ball...went out like a Sad Clown

She never hit so hard...

[Warren DeMontague]

29. See! These kids today. In my day, we did wholesome activities! .... Like playing board games.

And licking hallucinogenic toads.

But we played board games too.

[davidpdx]

35. Once you start saying "these kids today" or "kids these days"

you know you are getting old.

[Vinca]

34. If this had been down south she would have shot him.

[ladjf]

36. What kind of a guy would call the cops over a thing such as a slap? nt

[Johnyawl]

37. A smart guy...

...who knows that if she'll do that once, she'll do it again, and again and eventually he'll hit her back, and then SHE will call the cops and HE will go to jail.

[closeupready]

39. Jenna Jameson.

Oh, wait, you said guy...

[Rex]

48. Once I get all the railroads and utilities, I start wacking people with a nerf bat.

I can make em an offer that they cannot refuse, for Park Place and Boardwalk. I have plans for some big red hotels. Maybe a few small green motels on Baltic Avenue.

[Glassunion]

50. There is no such thing as a "friendly" game of Monopoly

My wife and I refuse to play it. We don't call it Monopoly. We've taken to calling it the game of Divorce.