Monday, May 10, 2004

When this is all over

I won't be able to run a casino but I will be able to run Gamblers Anonymous. I'm building up my resume, I am. (MTI gets the glam bits; we get to do research on the no. of people who've killed themselves cos they couldn't find enough money to gamble with. Ah, public service.)

National Gambling Impact Study Commission Report: In Louisiana, one man confessed to robbing and murdering six elderly individuals to feed his problem with gambling on electronic gaming devices [think jackpot machines].

Credit card crime, employee theft, that's all fairly easy to understand, but murder - it seems that something else, something crucial, must have broken down in the man to drive him to actual murder, doesn't it? Besides a gambling addiction, I mean. Or possibly we're all closer to murder than we realise.