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 This image is aligned to the right. Heh. But don't just take my word for it... For more random, gambling related facts read on. Putin's bare chest comands you...
Pachinko, the Japanese version of pinball machines with a payout, has lead to children dying of heat stroke while waiting in cars for their parents to leave the parlor. In the last six months, 56 children have been rescued by new parking lot patrol guards. www.crnjapan.com
Online gambling website BetUS.com allows customers to wager on global warming and natural disasters. www.theonlinewire.com/articleView.aspx%3FID%3D828+gambling+disasters+around+the+world&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
Numerous studies and cases in the last five years have indicated that a popular medication for Parkinson's disease has been found to cause the sudden onset of pathological gambling in patients. www.appneurology.com
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/87791 Czechs bet 90 billion Kc last year. There are approximately 50,000 slot machines in the Czech Republic, or one machine per person. That’s twice as many per capita as Germany.
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6418277&nav=4QcS In January of this year, a New York man won $1 million in the state lottery five weeks after being told he had lung cancer. Lottery officials said they could not break the rules, and Wayne Schenk received $34,000 before his death in April.
In September of this year, a ban against TV commercials for gaming will be lifted in the UK. Ads that imply gambling will improve your chances for sexual success, better looks and enhanced self-esteem will remain illegal. www.metro.co.uk
Self-titled paranormal investigator Ross Hemsworth from the UK will receive 1 million euro from (real) bookmakers William Hill if he can prove the existence of an afterworld. http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=54219&in_page_id=34
The betting sport of cockfighting is alive, well and still legal in Indonesia where cock-pits outnumber churches. www.inside-edge-mag.co.uk/tips/bettingnews
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/13/business/13vegas.html?pagewanted=2 Studies suggest higher rates of problem gambling among Asians than other groups. Several recent studies in New Zealand and Australia have found that Asians living there had higher rates of addiction than non-Asians. Dr. Fong of the University of California Los Angeles suggests that Asians are three times as likely as other groups to develop a serious gambling problem. He cautions that the study is based on only a small sample of gamblers in Los Angeles.
The most popular way to gamble in the UK is via a computer, second to gambling via phone. http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/UploadDocs/Contents/Documents/May%2007%20omnibus%20survey.pdf
Gambling is such a fundamental aspect of Christianity that philosopher Blaise Pascal concocted an argument that is known as “Pascal's Wager,” which states that it is safer to bet on God and Christianity and be wrong than to bet on anything else and be right. So why not become a Christian "just in case?" Even if you are wrong, you won't end up a big loser. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html
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