[EBH]

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[hal ogen]

What ever happened to personal responsibility????? If I ate Leggos should I be able to sue the Leggo company for MY problem?

[Pollster1]

Casinos disgust me, but the ruling was correct. We are adults, not wards of the state, and our self-destructive decisions are our own individual responsibility. [Note: my decision is to stay out of casinos, and I highly recommend that choice for others.]

[Raycpa]

Gambling is a tax on the math challenged.

[Quiller]

So the crux of this lawsuit is that the casino should be responsible because Williams gambled away his money? Of course, the idea is that Williams himself is not responsible for his own behavior. What's the end game, any person who needs money could go to a casion, pi$$ his money away, then sue the casion?

Don't look for the state to put any pressure on casinos to bar people who cannot control themselves. Casinos, and almost any organized gambling operation, are predators and through taxes the state is a parasite that drains off a little sweetness for itself by allowing the gambling to operate.

Same with lotteries. I've seen way more people with hungry kids and foodstamps scounging in the bottom of their pockets for an extra dime to play the lottery, than any well-shod executive. Pure predators, going after the most desperate.

If it was a cartoon, it would be of a person drowning, grabbing a thorny branch held out by a person on the bank. Except when the drowner grabbed it, the person on the bank would let go, laugh, and hold out another thorny branch.

[mmercier]

I can remember when one had to play what was called a penny pool, or other term I shall not use.

Once the state forced out the bookers who ran these operations it became... “have you played your number today” on every news program.

Here in Massachusetts we tax the hundreds of scratch and lottery ticket buyers to the max, and donate a penny on the hundred to reforming those who ruin theirlives via the state controlled mechanism.

I never gamble any more... Corrupting disease to the mind.

Fun as all get out, especially ace ducy and dice, but unhealthy.

I like Yahtzee for free,

[Vaquero]

our constitution is replete with the freedoms to succeed or fail anyway we so choose.

God Bless America (and be cautious counting cards).

[I_Like_Spam]

Problem gamblers are what keeps casinos in business, its their bread and butter.

They aren’t going to do anything effective to keep these folks out, heck they are open 24/7. Who do you think is playing craps there now, at 8 a.m Sunday morning.

[samtheman]

It looks like he lost most of his money before the casino told him they didn’t want his business anymore. Then after a break, he started coming again and probably just “fell through the cracks”, losing much less than he had lost previously (probably the last bit of his savings).

The thing that blows my mind is how he lost: slot machines.

Man, talk about math challenged. The odds are the worst; the results over time are absolutely certain.

He’s not just an addict; he’s a dope.

[ontap]

I agree...one has to take responsibility for his actions!!

[Alberta's Child]

The delicious irony of this story is that the plaintiff -- David Williams -- is a tax auditor. LOL.

I absolutely despise the gambling industry, and while I am a passionate advocate of personal responsibility I also recognize that casinos operate in a business environment that would never be accepted in any other industry (serving free alcohol to customers and then allowing them to put huge sums of money at risk, for example). It wouldn't have bothered me at all if this guy had won this case.

[metalurgist]

Finally, the nanny staters get one in the teeth.

I hope fast food, sugary drinks and Wal-Mart join in and kick them while they're down.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

If like the movie 21 casinos can bar people from playing that count cards or win excessively, then they should also exclude people that lose excessively.