Hey South Carolinans! This one’s for you! If anyone can explain how your lawmakers actually manage to walk upright, kindly comment or email because it’s frankly beyond me.

It may not come as much of a surprise to know that gambling machines are illegal in South Carolina. Okay, no real problem there–I don’t agree with it personally but plenty do, so okay. But when the law down South Carolina way actually has to make a specific amendment to the law to exempt Skee-Ball, then you know somethings gone very much awry.

Here’s the problem–games that offer something of value, like money, or tokens, or plastic novelties all fall under the purview of the law. Rather than rely on FREAKING COMMON SENSE, South Carolina lawmakers want to add a specific provision that says novelty games are not, for the purposes of this law, gambling machines. Which makes me wonder–what cop would actually be so low, so miserable, as to call in a VICE BUST ON CHUCK E. CHEESE???

The law has a lot of stupidity built right into it–ask South Dakotans sometime if they’re aware that they can, legally, shoot Native Americans if found in a party of three. It’s true–under South Dakotan law still on the books still in the town of Spearfish, any group of three or more Native Americans in the street may be considered a war party and legally shot. But amending an anti-gambling law to exempt Skee-Ball is a new low, even for lawmakers.

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