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 The Des Moines County Sheriff Department busted a Danville, Iowa bar after being tipped off that they were running an illegal gambling operation. Turns out that they were but it's not what you'd think. They weren't playing poker, taking sports bets, throwing dice, or hiding away a slots machine they were running illegal mouse races. Yes you read that right the bar's owners were busted for racing rodents and taking $1 to $2 bets on which mouse would come out on top.
"Mouse racing is entertainment, entertainment for family, friends and it's something to do on a Sunday afternoon," Scott Beach, co-owner of Bucktail Lodge told WQAD earlier this month. "We didn't know we were committing a criminal act, what is the act."
"No we don't consider it gambling at all, it's just people having fun," said Jan Beach, co-owner of the Bucktail Lodge. "The money goes back to them. If you win, you win; if you lose, you lose."
While the bar's owners may have thought of it as just a little good clean fun, the Des Moines county sheriff office did not see it that way. They charged the bar not only with illegal gambling but with health code violations for having rats running around the bar.
The bar owners' precaution to keeping the rats out of peoples' drinks? "Nobody gets beyond the pool table if drinking a beer, so if a mouse can jump out of there (race track) go run and drop a turd in his beer he's doing something."
When not racing, the several dozen mice were said to have been treated as pets and kept upstairs in aquariums. The bar owners said they treated the animals fairly and that it's not right that police are hassling them.
"There's no meth heads or makers around here, you just gotta mess with the mouse racers," added Scott. He hopes to successfully defend himself against the charges in court and continue racing his mice in the future.
Police say other charges including serving alcohol to minors are pending.
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