Good News! Bookies Suspend Betting On Alien Invasion in Alabama

[DoctorFinger]

To all of our community members in Alabama: Look to the Skies (http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/10/13/bookies-suspend-bets-on-alien-landing-86908-20798802/)!
WORRIED bookmakers have stopped taking bets on aliens showing up on Earth.
It follows a flurry of bets amid internet buzz that a massive intergalactic spaceship will appear tomorrow.
Videos and messages on YouTube, blogs and UFO websites are buzzing with predictions that a vessel from the alien Federation Of Light will be visible in our skies for three days.
It may all sound more oddball than odds-on - but bookies William Hill are taking it seriously enough to temporarily suspend betting on proof of the existence of intelligent alien life being confirmed by PM Gordon Brown.
It follows a rush of bets, including one punter who wanted to place a s3000 bet at odds of 1000-1.
Hill spokesman Rupert Adams said: "This is the first time an internet phenomenon has affected our business.
"We now have seven-figure liabilities if the ship does appear. We have decided to duck any more big bets until the 14th has passed, hopefully without incident."
To my brethren in Alabama, please make sure your cameras are ready to snap photos of our new alien overlords.

[LongStepMantis]

That's hilarious.

I don't know what's worse. That people are betting on whether or not aliens show up on a specific day, or that bookies are shamelessly exploiting that to make themselves rich.

I'm torn. I hope they do show up, just so the slimeball bookies are out a fortune...but at the same time I feel like anyone who would make a bet on it in the first place deserves to lose their money.

[Young Al Capone]

Wow, really it would be a win either way.

The bookies said the have 7 figure liabilities if the ship does show, which means they are most likely out of business if it shows. Plus, there would be an intergallactic spaceship in our orbit.

If it doesn't show, a lot of people who are betting based on a rumor that first started because of some psychic will lose money, which is just sorta funny.

[Young Al Capone]

02GAMsRCnhw

There actually are a lot of people that believe that this is going to happen. My reaction if they are right: head exploding.

[Aggort]

::facepalm::

[Typical Michael]

If it happens, I will shit the bed and post a picture.

[LongStepMantis]

02GAMsRCnhw

There actually are a lot of people that believe that this is going to happen. My reaction if they are right: head exploding.

He's bringing love! Get em!

/Simpsons

[Ancalagon]

"We now have seven-figure liabilities if the ship does appear. We have decided to duck any more big bets until the 14th has passed, hopefully without incident."

I hope aliens are real just for this! It would be awesome!

[TheEpicOfTyler]

I will be everything I own that nothing out of the ordinary happens that day.

[Young Al Capone]

I will be everything I own that nothing out of the ordinary happens that day.

Better get to a bookie still taking bets, it is today.

[Zrikz]

Is this brought to us by the God campaign? =/


If this happens tonight, I'll send the first person to post their paypal email like $100, or something...:rolleyes:

Otherwise, I see this as a great example of internet rumor propagation.. really, bookies took bets on this?

[Young Al Capone]

Otherwise, I see this as a great example of internet rumor propagation.. really, bookies took bets on this?

I would, history shows it as an almost sure win for the bookies.

[Zrikz]

I would, history shows it as an almost sure win for the bookies.

Ah, well, good point on that. I bet they are about to make a ton of money.

[Young Al Capone]

Ah, well, good point on that. I bet they are about to make a ton of money.

With people trying to bet s3000's and bookies with 7 figure bets on the line, I would say yes. Very yes, even.

[Iron Past]

It may all sound more oddball than odds-on - but bookies William Hill are taking it seriously enough to temporarily suspend betting on proof of the existence of intelligent alien life being confirmed by Dr. Gordon Freeman.

Fixed it! :)

[Radioguy9698]

the aliens have landed!

see...

http://www.jokeawhenever.com/archive/media/pictures/cousinsoffspring.jpg

[Ancalagon]

02GAMsRCnhw

There actually are a lot of people that believe that this is going to happen. My reaction if they are right: head exploding.

You would think the aliens could have used better music, sheesh that sounds like a declaration of war to me.

They also say the craft will appear in the southern hemisphere. I googled alabama (the place they say it will appear), and conveniently there does exist an Alabama in South Africa.

Nonetheless, I'd like to meet the poor kid who made this, tell him the facts of life, that his mommy wants him to move out of the basement and in fact if aliens were coming they wouldnt bother to make that fact known to a human agent to advertise via youtube.

[Johan]

http://gamingfanboy.com/images/facepalm.gif

[Psykoboy2]

I keep checking for an Alabama reference in the story, but I get nothing. Unless you just added it in there for effect.

[Young Al Capone]

So, is anyone else as dissapointed as I am that FOL never showed? I mean, I really thought that this was gonna be the time.

[The Doctor]

I rather apologize. You see, the "Federation of Light" has tried this trick multiple times on multiple worlds. It's actually a prank carried out by the fraternity Zed Zed Plural Zed Alpha at Sirius University for Advanced Mnemonics. They buzz a world with one of their stellar bookmobiles, and then declare all religions on the world they're visiting false so that they can start a new religion worshipping "Flaglatalleron the Magnificent" (which translates roughly to "Dangly Twig and Berries" in their language.)

Fortunately I was able to intercept their vessel (via reversing the polarity of the neutron flow in the anyon inhibitor of the nebular extent calculator of my TARDIS) and sent them back to their homeworld with a stern talking to about interfering with cultural development of pre-warp civilizations.

Carry on.