Bucktail Lodge, Danville, IA
Forget the fiction book! No one has to make this stuff up.
In Danville, Iowa there’s a bar called the Bucktail Lodge. At the Bucktail you can have a beer, play a game of pool and watch the mouse races. Yes, you heard me correctly, mouse races. On Sundays, you can bring the wife and kids and bet one or two dollars on the mouse of your choice. The owners of the Bucktail Lodge say it’s all good clean fun. They’re just providing family entertainment. The Des Moines County Sheriff’s Department says it’s gambling without a license and therefore illegal.
To add to their woes, the Des Moines County Sheriff’s Department found a few other violations when they raided the Bucktail Lodge. Among them, moldy food, trash strewn across the basement floor, unlawful alcohol containers and processing charge sales without credit cards. This has led to authorities pulling the Bucktail Lodge’s food and liquor license.
The owners of the Bucktail are not strangers to law enforcement. The owners have previously been charged with health code violations, supplying alcohol to minors, and serving alcohol to a patron who later killed a woman while driving drunk. All this begs the question, why the establishment is still even open?
If you’re ever in Danville, Iowa and happen to stop by the Bucktail Lodge, a word of advice, take a good look at your meal. Are you sure those are capers on that chicken?
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