February 6, 2012

Las Vegas churches accept gambling chips

This may come as a surprise to those of you not living in Las Vegas but there are more Catholic churches than casinos.

Not surprisingly, some worshipers attending services will give casino chips rather than cash when the basket is passed.

Since they get chips from many different casinos, the churches have devised a method to collect the offerings.

The churches send all their collected chips to a nearby Franciscan monastery for sorting and then the chips are taken to the casinos of origin and cashed in.

This is done by the chip monks.

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Zig Baird has been a jack-of-all-trades. After college, Zig attended the firefighter academy and went to become an EMT and a Paramedic. After 10 years in the Emergency Medical Services field, he turned back to his love of technology. He keeps active as a GeekBeat.TV and WebBeat.TV contributor, OpenCamp co-organizer, aspiring photographer, WordPress and Thesis web designer, poker player, husband and dad. Follow @Zig7 on Twitter or circle him on GooglePlus.

Comments

  1. Karen says:

    OMG…I actually had to think about that for a minute!!!

    Hilarious!

  2. Good one. It all seems like a pretty reliable story all the way untill the end…hihi :)

  3. Zig says:

    Glad you liked it!

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