Should he have won his lawsuit?

[Bob21]

Are you familiar with the story of Leonard Tose, Former owner of The Philadelphia Eagles in the 70's and 80's?

Toes made his money in the trucking business, bought The Eagles. Lived in a mansion in the exclusive Main Line section of Philly suburbs. Tose ran up huge gambling debts at several Atlantic City Casinos, which forced him to Sell The Eagles to cover those debts. Eventually he was evicted from his mansion and died living in a small rundown, old hotel room in Philadelphia.

Several of the casinos sued him to get their money. Toes countersued, claiming the casinos all overserved him. There was some pretty damming testimony when a cocktail waitress, testified that her instructions were to keep his glass filled at all times until he was no longer standing. She said she complained to management that they were illegally overserving him and she was threatened with the loss of her job. There was similar testimony from a number of people. Despite this pretty damming testimony, the casinos won, and I have already told you how it ended for Mr. Tose. He literally lost an NFL team (and a fortune) to gambling addiction. That is on him. But what the Casinos did, is also illegal and predatory behavior. And that is precisely why so many people despise the casino Industry.

Kj, here’s what you, most APs, and the anti-casino crowd don’t get. There are tens of thousands of stories like this. That’s why casinos were illegal in our country prior to 1931, and in most states prior to the 70s. There will always be some problem gamblers (liberals call it “addiction”, if you want) that will have their lives ruined by gambling.

Mickey and many others (including jbjb) have attached articles showing me the devestation that happens when casinos come into states and local comminuties. Crime, bankruptcies, divorce, etc, go up. Everybody gets this! It’s a proven fact. The only people in the world that don’t know everybody already knows this is the AP community. They think they are the only people privey to this information so they continue to send me articles showing me the downside of casinos.

Here’s what most APs don’t get. This is what comes along with casinos in a free society. There will always be some people that can’t control their gambling, just like there are people that can’t control their drinking, etc. The only way to address this issue is by making casinos and gambling illegal. And while we’re at it, we might as well make drinking illegal too. And why not make McDonald’s french fies illegal since they make people fat?

The problem is we have a culture today that doesn’t hold people accountable. We call it an ”addiction” or blame some company, or some industry for an individual’s actions.

Until I got on these forums I had no idea that the majority of APs were liberals. They don’t believe in individual accountability. If someone gambles too much and loses everything, APs believe it is the fault of the casinos. The gambler is never held accountable for his/her own actions.

Here’s something most APs don’t understand. The purpose of a business is to sell more of what they have/make. That’s how businesses make money. This is an economic lesson for you APs. McDonald’s tries to sell more hamburgers and fires, but they don’t want people to be obese. Marriott wants people to stay in their hotel rooms more often but they don’t want you to stay there so often you go bankruot.Car compaines want to sell you more cars, but they don’t want you to go bankrupt buying their cars. Banks give people loans, but they don’t want to reposes your things when you can’t pay the loan back but sometimes that happens.

And casinos want you to gamble more? Why? Because that’s their business model. It’s what casinos do. I’m surprised APs don’t know this since they spend so much time in casinos. But casinos don’t want people to gamble so much they lose all their money. I know that’s the liberal presses version so that’s how they slant all their stories....casinos and any big business are always the bad guy trying to take advantage of little Joe and big Joe. I’m surprised APs are so gullible and believe it.