by NewLife2017 » Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:06 pm
Gambling has made me do some things I never thought possible. I'm glad I have not fallen to the depths of murder. There is a man, Gary Tomassoni, who is in prison right now. I used to watch him play blackjack from behind the table. He always played with $500 chips. He played for hours on end on two spots. When I would watch him I was jealous, I wished that I had that much money for life, for gambling, whatever. I used to think I wish I were rich like him. Well, it turns out he wasn't rich he had borrowed money from neighbors, friends, coworkers, family members and credit cards. He was married to a school teacher named Helen. In the middle of the night he shot her in the head twice, in hopes to obtain money from a life insurance policy. When he shot her, their teenage son awoke, Tomassoni claimed it was an intruder.
To think I was jealous of him. What a wake up call! when I saw his picture in the paper I recognized him. When I returned to the casino I mentioned to the people who worked there why did they let him gamble without ever asking him to stop her asking if he was OK. Even though he was spending inordinate amounts of money and was there for many many hours. They were very hush-hush about the whole thing. One dealer told me, "we have been told by our supervisors not to talk about him, or we will lose our jobs."
As you can see, with the amount of children left in cars dying in the parking lot, the increase in suicide, prostitution, rape, the robberies, the assaults, the murders, the increase in domestic abuse, money laundering, etc. all because a casino is built in the area, casinos and crime and go hand-in-hand. Pretty much the same as selling your mother to cover gambling debts & to have her beheaded
more safeguards need to be put in place for ALL casinos throughout the nation. Such as closing at the same time bars close, stop serving someone who is over gambling, after people lose a certain amount of money $500, making them stop gambling, not allowing someone with down syndrome, or who is obviously mentally incapable to gamble.
I have seen mentally disabled people allowed to gamble in the casino, coached on how to lose their money by casino employees, disgusting!