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I'll rat you out

• I read "Safe bet." That was a good call. And to everyone else who thinks they're card counters: I'm in charge of somebody else's money. It's not mine. If I think you're cheating, oh, by the way, I have a gaming badge. If I lose that, I can't work. I will rat you out. I will tell the boss. When I get tapped out, you can tip me all you want, and I'll turn around and rat you out like you wouldn't believe. I've got another 20 years in this business. I have to protect a gaming badge. Any of you wannabes, go ahead. I've been doing this for 20 years. I'll rat you out.

It was just a thing

• One day, 38 years ago, my family had a big barbecue in my yard. Things got out of hand and there was trash everywhere the next day. It took us a few days to pick everything up, but we did. All except for one little beer bottle. For the next 38 years, every time I saw that beer bottle lying on the ground in my yard, it reminded me of that barbecue party. For 38 years, I mowed around it, walked by it, talked about it and even put up a tiny little souvenir shop around it so the ants could marvel at it. On Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., I finally threw that beer bottle away. Now tell me why I shouldn't have done that, and tell me why that beer bottle was historic to my family.

Don't do that to your dogs

• Monday at 1 p.m. at the D'Iberville Wal-Mart, a white van had two small dogs in the heat. The windows were open a little, but the dogs were panting very hard. I have dogs and I wouldn't do that to them. If I see the van again, I'm going to take its numbers and turn them in. Thank you.

Don't dodge your duty

• Warning about public servants and officials. If any of them ever say, "We've got too much on our plate to worry about this" or "We've got bigger, more important things to worry about," any kind of cop-out like that should warn you this person is not a responsible public official. All issues have importance. They have the time, duty and responsibility to discuss and deliberate every issue. To simply say there's too much on our plate to talk about right now, that's a cop-out; that person has no business in office and you should vote accordingly.

Happy ending

• Last week I called in a Sound Off request for a bike for a man who is legally blind, but can still see enough to ride the bike. We did find one, and I just want to make sure you could print a thank-you to everybody involved. We found him a bike.

Rules and regulations

• It's just plain Communist not to allow DDT and asbestos in places that serve alcohol.

Lowlife

• To whoever robbed my crab traps. What type of lowlife criminal would steal food from a family on the Sabbath? Guess I'll have to take drastic measures to protect my property.

Dangerous trek

• I'm a student who walks to school every morning, and I feel it's very dangerous to do so. Crossing or even walking near the streets I feel frightened, because cars are speeding down them. And there is very rarely police radaring.

Leave her where she landed

• To the person in the Sound Off column who said the S.S. Camille was junk. That's a piece of a very devastating history that happened to the Coast. It's not a piece of junk and it's not litter. That's what is wrong with this country. Everyone wants to throw away the past and just start over with things that are all pretty. Well, Camille wasn't pretty. Neither was where that tug landed. I don't think it should be moved. It should stay where it is. That's where she landed, that's where she should be. Let her rest. She's not junk and she's not litter.

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