Minister Leads Boycott Of Convenience Stores

[The Straight Story]

Minister Leads Boycott Of Convenience Stores
Monday June 27, 2005 7:58am

Whitefield (AP) - An eastern Oklahoma minister is leading a boycott of local convenience stores with telephone card devices that critics say operate like slot machines.

The Reverend Kevin Duncan, pastor of the Whitefield Baptist Church, began the informal boycott two months ago. Several parishioners have joined the boycott.

Players insert between one and 100 dollars in the machines, then push a button. In return, they get a phone card of nominal value and a chance at cash.

The manager of one store in Stigler, six miles east of Whitefield, says he paid out the maximum 16-hundred dollar prize three times one weekend.

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[Journeyman]

1. Odd. You'd think the State gaming board (if OK has legalized gambling). .

or law enforcement (if OK prohibits gambling) would be all over this. I don't understand why the preacher has to even be involved, or why he's organizing a boycot. Seems a well-placed dime would put an end to this problem. But I guess it's more dramatic to stage a boycott than it is to simply let the law do its job.