Extremely New England details in this story about a proposed casino in Nashua
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there is a jurisdiction problem for police and emergency services because the parking lot is in a different state from the casino
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this is the same building that already had to be remodeled after a surveyor found that one corner crossed the state line and thus could be subject to Massachusetts laws instead of New Hampshire ones
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which is important because Massachusetts has your typical blue-state laws: relatively high taxes, strict safety and environmental regulations, etc.
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and New Hampshire does not really have laws
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except it is illegal to feed bears
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there was an Incident
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anyway
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the slot machines will be "historical horse racing machines" which is a hilarious legal loophole wherein the machine looks like a slot machine, but derives its spins from the outcome of past horse races
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which are purely used as an internal random number generator, they don't tell you the names of the horses or jockeys or anything like that
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but this means it is not a slot machine (addictive, illegal) but a horse race (traditional, wholesome)
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for a state that loves to complain about how Massholes are a bunch of woke communists who are ruining their Unique Regional Culture (The Common Man, not wearing seatbelts, a rock formation that collapsed in 2003, trees) they sure do need our money, huh
