HARRISON, Ark. - A preacher who lost his privilege to visit the Boone County Senior Center two years ago has lost his bid to be readmitted to the facility.
Center workers said Arthur Barnes, 73, was barred after being involved in pool room brawls and asking other elderly men to step outside and fight.
The former postal worker, pastor of the Kissee Community Church near Monarch, said in a trial last year that center workers had publicly berated him for losing dominoes, leaving billiard balls atop the pool table and taking extra ice cream toppings and doughnuts.
In 2002, Barnes was barred for 60 days after a fight over a billiard game.
Other complaints he made in the suit concerned:
_A reprimand for getting an extra glass of milk that he said he was getting for a friend who wasn't as mobile as him.
_Being ordered not to sell his chicken eggs at the center so that another person could sell "less superior eggs."
_Being reprimanded for disrupting a bingo game. "I am innocent," Barnes said in the suit. "By the way, the bingo game is illegal." | 
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Okay... so *this* is what I have to look forward to in old age?? Good lord, kill me now.
I'll go drinking with you anytime, Dingus (the survey hasn't been updated in a year, and I didn't know you then!)
I hope my life is that exciting when I'm that old. Getting into brawls and being band from senior centers. That's what life is about.
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