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Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 11:55 am
by devilduck
I know there are quite a few Midwesterner's on this forum. If you ever find yourself on the northside of Chicago on a friday night you might want to visit Big Joe's. This bar has turtle racing at 10PM every friday. You can win free beers, t-shirts, and even a trip to Vegas.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/big-joes-chicago

I used to frequent this bar a lot a few years back. I found myself there again by sheer chance last night. Here's a picture I took of some friends there back in 2007.

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When you buy a drink you get a raffle ticket. They will randomly pick 6 ticket numbers per race and you go up and randomly draw for your "racing" RES. The RES are placed in the center of the table and the first one to crawl to the outer area wins. First place winner gets a t-shirt, last place winner gets a free beer. They run 6-7 races a night.

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 12:47 pm
by kerby
Nice wish they had something like that here

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 8:15 pm
by dumbork14
Can you entice your racing turtle to go outside the outer area by secretly carrying a pellet in your hand and waving it near the turtle? haha :)

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:03 pm
by kerby
I think others would notice

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Sun Mar 31, 2013 2:33 am
by steve
I'd wear a shirt with a big screen print of a Reptomin can. ;)

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:11 pm
by Stefania
Hm-m... I am a bit evil to humans to place an adequately comment :)

Re: Turtle Races at Big Joe's Pub in Chicago

PostPosted: Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:43 am
by vear
steve wrote:I'd wear a shirt with a big screen print of a Reptomin can. ;)

hahaha!!! that's genius!! Tomi would win for sure!