Las Vegas Churches Accept Gambling Chips
This may come as a surprise to those of you not in Las Vegas, but last time I was out there, I noticed that for all the casinos that were out there, the number of Catholic churches outnumbered them.
Not surprisingly, that means that some worshipers will toss casino chips in the offering basket rather than cash.
Since the churches get chips from all sorts of different casinos, they've devised a method of collecting the money for the plastic offerings that have been left.
The churches send all their collected chips to a centralized location for sorting. There is a Franciscan monastery where they take this task very seriously. The chips are sorted and tallied, and taken to the casinos of origin to be cashed in.
This is done by the chip monks.
I'll bet I had you going, didn't I?
~ Hath
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I'll admit that you did have me there, but then again, it's Vegas, and I wouldn't be surprised one tiny bit if this happened to be true. LOL!
-Stas
Chip monks! I love it! I needed a good laugh today ... THANK YOU!
LMAO!!! That's good, Hath and you had me going there too. Especially since Vegas is known for having their own 'style'. I needed a good laugh too.
Oh, you had me going too, very believeable. Am now emailing it to everyone I know!
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