gwnn, on 2014-April-28, 08:05, said:
I have seen this in real life, but it wouldn't fit this category.
My RHO, an elderly lady, dealt and opened the bidding by putting the ♦2 on the table. After our initial objection, it was clear that she was not aware that she did anything wrong (or funny). So, we called the TD.
We told him what had happened, and he asked the lady why she put the ♦2 on the table. Her response: "Why? What is wrong with opening 2♦?". It took the TD quite some convincing to let her pick up the playing card and pull out the bidding card. I am pretty sure this lady is not with us anymore, but if she would be she probably still thinks that we were illegally trying to bar her from opening a perfectly allowed 2♦.
(I must say that this was in the ACBL, where the bridge players are very old, and at a time that bidding boxes were just starting to be introduced there (around 1995!).)
Rik