How People Really Feel About Nova Scotia Gambling Provisions
READ MORE: Gambling Laws, Odd
Problem Gambling Law Called Worthless [The Globe and Mail]
Previously: Here’s One Way to Handle Losing Money at the Casino [Oddjack]
Here’s One Way to Handle Losing Money at the Casino
READ MORE: Casinos, Gambling, Odd
In three years, Paul Burrell gambled away nearly $500,000 of his life-savings at Casino Nova Scotia. Yet the former Cape Breton coal miner says he was never once approached by staff at the casino in Sydney, N.S., even though provincial law requires them to bar problem gamblers from the premises.Day after day, week after week, between January 2000 and February 2003, he sat in front of the slot machines at the casino, where the staff let him keep on playing and losing, even though it was clear he was addicted:
“Any business has a responsibility to protect its customers,” he says. “It doesn’t matter what business you’re in. When someone is your customer, you have an obligation to protect that person from being hurt or damaged on your premise — or at your place of business.”Burrell has threatened to the sue the provincial government in a bid to force it to be more aggressive in spotting gambling addicts within casinos.
N.S. Gambler Loses $500,000 at Casino, Threatens to Sue [Canada.com]
Brad Penny: Likes to Mess With Bat Boys
READ MORE: Brad Penny, Milk Bet, Odd
No word on whether or not the bat boy also had to clean up afterward:
Dodgers RHP Brad Penny bet a bat boy $500 on Sunday that he couldn’t drink a gallon of milk in under an hour without vomiting. Some of Penny’s teammates kicked in on the wager, raising the ante to more than $1,000. After taking Penny up on the offer, the unidentified bat boy managed to drink the gallon of milk but was unable to fulfill the second part of the bargain. “He drank it down to the last drop,” Penny said. “But he couldn’t hold it in. I haven’t laughed that hard in a long time.” …
LA Dodgers Team Report [ESPN]
Georgia College to Offer Gambling Course
READ MORE: Franklin College,, Gambling, Gambling Courses, Odd
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences in Georgia are showing a more eccentric course offering for incoming freshman this year. One of them is a course on gambling titled “How to Gamble if You Must”. This course along with ones about Bob Dylan and one titled ” The A.R.T. of Sex” will ensure that Franklin’s 2009 graduating class will be the most well-rounded degenerate gamblers able to have sex in more than 84 positions to “Rainy Day Women”—and explain the significance of it all in an eloquent fashion.
Gambling, Bob Dylan Among Course Offering [Redandblack]
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Cultural Oddsbreaker: North Korean Leader Claims He Hit 11 Holes in One In Round of Golf
READ MORE: Kim Jong II, Odd, Odds
“It was a claim that would have made even Tiger Woods blush. Kim Jong-il, the leader of North Korea, has casually suggested that, during the first round of golf he ever played, he notched up a mere 11 holes in one…[I]t is estimated to be a one in 14 million chance to have two during a round of 18 holes, the same odds as winning the UK National Lottery. “
Immediately after he sank the 11 holes in one, Jong II waded into the ocean to celebrate where he was simultaneously struck by lightning, and attacked by a giant squid, but then saved by a passing spaceship full of aliens that was luckily flying overhead.
North Korean Leader Defies All the Odds to Card 11 Holes in One [The Herald]
Casino Buzz: Tots Get the Bug Early
READ MORE: Casino Buzz, Gambling, Odd
Today’s Casino Buzz letter examines the phenomenon of children being predisposed to gambling through other means—the letter writer used video games as an example—but, of course, the always enjoyable and sometimes psychotic Mark Casino Buzz takes things to another level we’d never even think about:
On the Boardwalk in Atlantic City children can freely walk into an arcade and play true slot machines by exchanging quarters for tokens. They win crummy prizes in exchange for the tickets the slot spits out. Another example is at the children’s arcade at the Circus Circus in Reno. A child can play Flip It, the casino game that flips quarters into the air and on rare occasion pushes them down into trays. They disguised it in name only by calling it Jungle Jamboree. Again, kids get to exchange tickets for worthless prizes. But I did say two-year-olds. To prove I have one foot planted in mid-air, how about the two-year-old who makes a path with Linus blanket in hand to that thingamajig at the supermarket door that dispenses those plastic transparent eggs. For a quarter a young tot can win an egg containing a bracelet, a cheap watch, but most likely a 3¢ ring-more on that below. These vending machines are classic slot machines.
Hmm. We wonder what childhood activity predisposed us to being such avid fans of barnyard pornography? We always thought those egg machines contributed to that.
Do Two-Year-Olds Gamble? You Bet They Do! [Casino Buzz]
What Not To Do When You Steal a Bunch of Money
READ MORE: CompuTrak, Gambling, Odd
An aussie businessman is being indicted on charges that he stole more than $10 million(in Aussie funny money, we assume) and used that to fund his insatiable gambling habit. Sure he spent lavish dinners and doled out some cash to people when asked—but he also was betting $150,000 on chalk in AFL games with pay outs as little as $30,000. Not so smart. And now, he’s going to jail, failing to recover from the vicious cycle that is degenerate gambling. Bah. Who are we kidding? We’d probably do the same thing with $10 million in stolen money right now or we’d head to the OTB right now and bet on the CompuTrak Del Mar picks.
Boss Blew $10 million in Betting Spree [Herald Sun]
Parkinson’s Drug Causes Gambling Habit?
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File under: What the fuck? According to an AP wire story the Parkinson’s disease drug Mirapex has an unusual side effect in some patients, turning average tax-paying citizens with twitchy faces into potential stars of the reality show Intervention. Observe:
Joe Neglia was a retired government intelligence worker with Parkinson’s disease when he suddenly developed what he calls a gambling habit from hell.
After losing thousands of dollars playing slot machines near his California home several times a day for nearly two years, Neglia stumbled across an Internet report linking a popular Parkinson’s drug he used with compulsive gambling.
“I thought, ‘Oh my God, this must be it,’” he said. Three days after stopping the drug, Mirapex, “all desire to gamble just went away completely. I felt like I had my brain back.”
A Mayo Clinic study published Monday in July’s Archives of Neurology describes 11 other Parkinson’s patients who developed the unusual problem while taking Mirapex or similar drugs between 2002 and 2004. Doctors have since identified 14 additional Mayo patients with the problem, said lead author Dr. M. Leann Dodd, a Mayo psychiatrist.
Parkinson’s Drug Is Linked to Gambling [Newsday]
Golden Palace Continues Its Classy Marketing Campaign
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Apparently, the bullet fragments taken from John F. Kennedy’s brain were not available for sale.
Online Casino Company Buys Fence From Site of JFK’s Assassination [Yahoo]
Things To Do In Queensland Before You’re Dead
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Who’s fired up?:
Over 400 people will converge on the Outback Queensland village of Windorah when the community hosts the sixth annual Windorah International Yabby Races in the main street on Wednesday, 31 August, at 1830.Punters will have the opportunity to buy one of forty yabbies, which will race for glory in four races including the Barcoo Bolt, Thomson Trot, Kyabra Kanter and Coopers Creek Cup.
We don’t even know what the hell at yabby is, but apparently it’s some sort of lobster-looking thing. Pure genius.
The Windorrah Yabby Races [Queens Holidays]
Bring Out The Gimp
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Prepare to spark the bong. According to a reader e-mail, one of the most popular sports to bet on in Japan is a style of wrestling called “dog legs” wrestling. In this competition, two handicapped Japanese people wrestle each other in a WWE-styled event, crooked limbs and all. There are too many handicapping jokes here for an early Monday morning so we’ll just send you to the links and let you have your way with it.
Dog Legs: Handicapped Japanese Wrestling [News3Yen]
Dog Leg Wrestling [Masa Mania]
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