76 Year old was banned from all Mecca Bingo Halls

Posted on May 29th, 2009 - Julie @ 11:53 am

A frustrated seventy six year-old, Rosalyn Clemson was banned from all the Mecca Bingo Halls across the UK. This could be shocking news especially that Rosalyn is already a senior and Mecca Bingo is one of the biggest bingo operators in the country. Why do they need to ban her and what did she do to deserve this? Well, let’s learn more about this unbelievable news below.

Rosalyn Clemson, already a senior and a pensioner has been going to the same Mecca Bingo hall in her neighborhood for more than fifty years. She has been there every week with her friends. She’s been a Mecca Bingo member and loyalist so to speak. However, one day, she decided to check out a rival hall for a change of scenery. And so she asked her friends if they would like to go with her too. She arranged a group trip to the rival bingo hall. When Mecca Bingo learned about this, they made sure she couldn’t step any Mecca Bingo Hall. That’s how hard the bingo hall took it. Do you think it was too harsh? Probably! Imagine the loyal Mecca Bingo player has been playing in the same bingo hall for over half a century, not to mention that she’s already a senior and was only trying something different. It didn’t even mean that she was switching to a different bingo hall because she still longs to play at Mecca Bingo. However, she’s no longer accepted there.

According to Mecca Bingo, Rosalyn Clemson has broken membership rules which Clemson didn’t know. According to the bingo operator, she and her husband were no longer welcomed to play in any of the hundred bingo halls that Mecca Bingo operates across the country. They said that her offense was approaching members at the Chester bingo hall and offering them an arranged trip to the opposition bingo clubs.

Mrs. Clemson was emotionally devastated and depressed. The bingo hall was just near her home and she couldn’t see her friends from bingo because she couldn’t join them in the bingo hall. She even condemned the bingo operator. All she did was organize a little trip for a change of scene. According to her, the way that Mecca Bingo hall reacted made her look a spy or traitor. It was as if the bingo operator wants to own their body and soul. This ban has happened last year but a National Pensioners Convention officer, Neil Duncan-Jordan is trying to make an appeal for the devastated senior. It clearly looks like the large company has over-reacted and it does not reflect well on them.