CAMILLA, GA — A routine family game night almost ended in disaster after a young child asked to play Monopoly. Fortunately for everyone involved, better heads prevailed, and the game of Monopoly was narrowly avoided.

The night nearly fell apart when a young mother identified as Margery Tyler told her eight-year-old son to pick any game he wanted to play, forgetting that he always picked Monopoly. Quick thinking on the part of the boy's father saved the day, however, when he rushed to the game cabinet and threw the box into the fireplace before his son's small legs could get there.

"Hmm, looks like it's missing, buddy," Eric Tyler had said at the time, feigning ignorance as only a father could. "But look, son, we can play Carcassonne. You get to build out a medieval countryside. Isn't tha

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