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Hi,
did you all see this on the news last night?
some preacher’s kid who is like the perfect student got caught robbing a bank and guess who he blamed it on? online gambling
… couldn’t have come at a worse time. I fear this media attention will be enough to sway the legislature.
hope I’m wrong.
They actually mentioned this on the House floor when they were debating the bill. So it’s not new news. It is RETARDED, though. Sorry that kid is a criminal (and a dumb one at that: he did it without a mask), but it has nothing to do wth online poker.
They will start to tell about suicides and lost homes, childrens educations wasted away. This is the just the start
but it has nothing to do wth online poker.
I disagree. I think this is exactly the sort of incident they’ll target as an example of the “evils of OG”.
glad to hear its already been sprung rather than to hear its still going to extract its toll.
bb1webs wrote:I disagree. I think this is exactly the sort of incident they’ll target as an example of the “evils of OG”.Erm…yeah, obviously THEY will target it as such. That doesn’t make it true. My point was just that, in fact, the kind of person who robs a bank to pay off online poker debts is the same guy that would rob a bank to pay off land-based poker debts is the same guy who would rob a bank to pay off [fill in the blank]. The guy ROBBED A BANK. I’m 15k in student loan debt, 10k in credit card debt, but I’m not robbing banks.
They also brought up somebody who supposedly killed themselves over their online poker debts. Again, this is not some unique menace of online gambling. Suicide and bank robbing are not side effects of online gambling. People kill themselves over break-ups, child custody battles, getting fired…people rob banks because they are greedy, or broke, or CRIMINALS.
Sheesh. YES, the guys who are trying to ban it will say that this is some unique scourge. It isn’t. Just like alcohol, or cigarettes, or TV for God’s sake, plenty of people don’t know how to use and not abuse. But alcohol and cigarettes and TV are all legal. For now. And online gambling should be too.
ya the kid laid it on thick and you could tell was obviously coached.
everything was “because my addiction told me to do it”.
while I certainly am sympathetic to the kid’s situation simply due to the fact that he’s young … I agree that there are plenty of people in this world with large debt hanging over their heads that don’t seek robbing banks as a resolution to their problem.
Imagine the stories that could be told about alcohol abuse. No “vice” is immune to these kinds of allegations. The can throw a lot of shit at us. How much of it will stick is a different question.
Well my message to the governments of the world would be
Practice what you preach…
Eliminate all gambling. Its obvious the corporations/government just want to control
this revenue.. and if they can get away with demolishing the trade center
in front of everyones eyes, then online gambling should be like swatting a mosquito..And that really sucks because I just became an affiliate a few months ago..
_Detector.
