BettingLine!: Flagmageddon Day (Part #2)

If you’ve got the virtual money, we’ve got the virtual BettingLine. Here comes some more proposition bets for Thursday’s Danville City Council meeting. I think they’re going to have a lot of people there and talk about a Confederate flag. Or something like that.

If you need an explanation of a money line, I’ve got it in the first BettingLine! article. Oh yeah… For Entertainment Purposes Only. Heh.

Let’s step up to the BettingLine!

How long will Thursday’s Danville City Council meeting last (measured from gavel-to-gavel)?:

• 0 to 30 minutes: +7000
• 31 to 60 minutes: +600
• 61 to 90 minutes: +130
• 91 to 120 minutes: EVEN
• 121 to 180 minutes: -125
• Over 180 minutes: +150

Discussion: Bring a sleeping bag and a pillow. The world record for shortest Danville City Council meeting is 8 minutes. If you’re going to bet the longshot, thanks in advance for virtually paying for my birthday meal. If I was a betting man, I’d take the even money bet here.

A flag supporter or opponent gets arrested before, during or immediately after the meeting:

• YES: +4000
• NO: OFF

Discussion: Save your money and run away from this bet. People will be taking stupidly, but they won’t be acting stupidly.

A black person will speak in favor of the confederate flag (against the ordinance):

• YES (Danville resident): +1200
• YES (Non-Danville resident): +200
• NO: -550

Discussion: The house is strongly encouraging wagering by offering that +200 line on a black non-Danville resident making a speech. It’s probably a sucker bet but that would just complete the Circle of Bizarreness, wouldn’t it?

A speaker will say the words “Cultural Genocide”:

• YES: -900
• NO: +300

Discussion: Drink! Even since I bet Cigar to win at Del Mar in 1995 (and lost my entire bankroll trying to win a lousy $20), I’ve never laid another 1:9 bet since. I’m tempted. I’m really tempted here.