"The progression went like this. A young innocent, almost always a male, fell in love with the flashing lights, bumpers, and rolling silver spheres of a pinball machine. He skipped a class or two, figuring his time was better spent mastering flippers than French. He developed an unsavoury group of new friends. As his academic marks declined, he learned vital skills, like extorting lunch money from other students to fund his pinball habit. Soon enough, he was a full-blown juvenile delinquent, leading a life of crime, drugs, and violence.

This scenario, straight out of an ancient scare-mongering classroom film, was among the main motivations behind the creation of a City by-law regulating the number of pinball machines a single business is able to operate—a by-law whose bite was felt just last week, when Parkdale’s Pinball Cafe closed down."

Full Story Here:

http://torontoist.com/2012/12/prudish-about-pinball/

and Here:

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/14/pinball-cafe-closure-over-having-more-than-two-pinball-machines-highlights-absurdity-of-bylaw-bureaucracy-at-city-hall/