Posted on 03/07/2014 10:35:15 AM PST by Wolfie
Tough titties.
Can’t control your booze? Don’t go to casinos.
“Gambler sues casino, says he lost $500,000 playing drunk”
Dumbass. You think the casinos provide you with free alcohol because they’re nice?
Anyone this effin’ stupid deserves to have this happen to them.
Johnston lives in Ventura and made his fortune in car dealership
Well that is no surprise....used car salesman are the worst.
MAN I been drunk before not this DRUNK LOL!
I didn’t think that hooker would give me the clap.
In 1991, the Sands sued him [Mr. Tose] for $1.23 million in gambling debts. He countersued, contending that the casino got him too drunk to know what he was doing. Eventually, the casino won. There was testimony from a cocktail waitress swearing that her job description was "to keep Mr. Tose's glass filled." A monogrammed glass, courtesy of the casino, which she kept filled with top-shelf scotch.In the end, he lost it all, by his estimate more than $20 million at Resorts International and $14 million at the Sands. In 1996, on his 81st birthday, Tose was evicted from his seven-bedroom Villanova mansion after losing the house in a U.S. Marshal's sale.
In 1999, he told a congressional hearing on compulsive gambling that his losses totaled between $40 million and $50 million. He spent his last years alone in a downtown hotel room after his home in Philadelphia's upscale Main Line district was confiscated for unpaid taxes. Mr. Tose died in his sleep in the hospice wing of St. Agnes Medical Center in Philadelphia on April 15, 2003. He was 88. No cause of death was released. An obituary by Dan Dunkin captured his life: "To put Leonard Tose's life in football terms, he threw on every down."
From Wikipedia.
In the old days the guy would have been found dead in the desert......
Wasn’t that the plot of an Albert Brooks movie? Except I think his wife blew their life savings.
Like Robert DeNiro said at the beginning of the movie “Casino”
“I mean, what do you think we’re doing out here in the middle of the desert? It’s all this money. This is the end result of all the bright lights and the comped trips, of all the champagne and free hotel suites, and all the broads and all the booze. It’s all been arranged just for us to get your money. That’s the truth about Las Vegas. We’re the only winners. The Players don’t stand a chance.”
I am sure he would have gladly returned his winnings if had won during his little drunk spell....
;-)
Wow! Never knew about that.....thanks for posting.
The former owner of the NFL’s Philedephia Eagles, Leonard Tose, tried the same strategy after losing big in Vegas. He claimed they got him drunk to keep him gambling and losing. He lost the case and had to sell his football team to pay his debts.
I’m not as think as you drunk I am.
Hat me.
This was on Fox News. Seems Los(t) Wages has a law that states you must not let obviously drunk players, play at the table.
Whether he should be refunded any portion of his losings or not has a real law that is in the mix.
If I were a judge I’d laugh at him and say NEXT CASE.
Reminds me of the guy who tried the same thing with the casino I worked at in Tahoe. I believe he came up with a different approach. Search You Tube for “Harvey’s Casino”. Interesting side note...Harvey Gross wanted to expand his casino, but the Planning commission turned him down. The damage to the building “just happened” to be in an area that, since he had to rebuild anyway he could now add his expansion. Just a coinkydink I’m sure.
Yep -- "Lost in America" -- funny and touching, very entertaining. Albert tried to get the casino manager to advertise his casino as "The Casino with a Heart", because he returned Albert's funds that his wife lost playing roulette, with glazed-over eyes, all night long.
Of course, the casino manager didn't return the money. He said, instead, "This is a ca-SEE-no, you play the money you think you can afford, and sometimes you lose. That's why it's called GEHMMMM-bling."
Funny as anything.
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