Novelty bets

[Dylan]

Do bookies really take them? As a joke Christening present, i want to put a bet on a friend's new son winning The Open golf by the time he's 30. You read about this kind of thing in the tabs but do bookies really do it?

 

[Dylan]

Bollocks, wrong forum.

 

[LarryHagman]

If you go a big bookies, I think they do. My mate did it for his son, can't remember the bet. They just ring the head office and quote you some generic odds.

 

[Pesam]

Yeah, they'll probably offer you something daft like 500/1 when in truth the odds should be about 10,000/1 but as a novelty "gift" I wouldn't imagine the price is that important.

 

[Dylan]

Cheers!

 

[Piedro]

Was in the paper the other day, some fat cunt from bolton or somewhere backward, went into his bookies and slapped £100 quid on him losing 100lbs within a year ( he was about 26 stone ).

Did it anyway, they paid out 100-1 on it.

 

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Was in the paper the other day, some fat cunt from bolton or somewhere backward, went into his bookies and slapped £100 quid on him losing 100lbs within a year ( he was about 26 stone ).

Did it anyway, they paid out 100-1 on it.
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So tempted to do this.