What Happened To The Boy Who Cried “BINGO!” (When He Didn’t Win)

Ever wondered what would happen if you shouted out "BINGO!" when you hadn't in fact won the bingo?

Maybe this will sort out whatever meandering predictions you had about the game crime.

An 18-year-old boy in Kentucky was arrested after crying out "Bingo!" last month, according to Consumerist.com.

The teenager reportedly burst into the local bingo hall in February and yelled the word out.

An officer who was off-duty at the time arrested him for second-degree disorderly conduct.

“[It] caused the hall to quit operating since they thought someone had won,” the officer wrote on his citation.

“This delayed the game by several minutes and caused alarm to patrons.”

He added that the crowd was "less than pleased" with the youngster.

“At first, everybody started moaning and groaning when they thought they’d lost,” the officer told a local news station. “When they realized it wasn’t a real bingo, they started hooting and hollering and yelling and cussing. People take their bingo very seriously.”

The policeman only cited him with the crime when the boy refused to apologise.

“He seemed to think he could say whatever he wanted because it was a public building. I tried to explain that that’s not the case. Just because it’s a public building doesn’t give you the right to run into a theater and yell ‘fire.’ You can’t go into a ballpark and yell ‘out,’ because people could stop the game.”

The judge said he will dismiss the boy's charge if he doesn't get into any more trouble in the next six months.

That's where the "b-word" can get you...