As a responsible gambler it gladdens my heart always whenever I hear a fellow gambler testify of how he won a bulky amount of money from be it a bet or lotto and uses that money to inject into something meaningful for himself.
It all happened on my way home just this evening. I boarded a public bus and just in front of me were seated two young men too in their late thirty's having a conversation and from the conversation it sound like they haven't met for a long time and one was telling the other of how he had won a big amount of money from a lotto he played and he has used the money to get himself a new bus for public transportation business.
According to him, he once had a bus before which he was using for the transport business (carrying of passengers) but was seized and confiscated by the authority for he used it in conveying contraband goods of which he was hired to carry to some location by the goods owner on the way law enforcement agents stop them did a search and that was how he lost that vehicle.
So winning that money he quickly went ahead to get a new bus to continue his public transport business. From his voice he seems like one whose lost hope has been restored by that single win. Gambling can be a life saver too for it's not as bad as non-gamblers portrays it. To all gamblers' when you get lucky make good use of your gambling win do not chase for double portion.
Honestly these fairytale stories that constantly seem to pop up on the forum are a bit ridiculous and barely comprehensible or logical half the time. You know contraband usually refers to illicit goods, right? As in he was breaking the law and that's why he got a vehicle seized, so is hardly in need of sympathy. How does he jump from running a public transportation business, which would suggest he is carrying passengers, and end up transporting goods instead?
It's a pity you assume this real life story to be a fairytale but it's cool, you can see it in that light or which ever way you choose however I don't know why I should be cooking up fairytale story as this I wonder who I am impressing here.
Over here people buy 18 seaters buses a good example is Toyota Hiace bus and use it for intra-urban transportation business, a single individual can decide to hire the bus for a short time service for his private use (provided he can pay for the service) either to carry some items or goods for them to another location. And it's a common thing over here in my country. Anyways, I don't have anything to prove to you real or fairy tale, the message from the story is clear and that's what I have just shared as I witnessed it.
To be it sounds like a reasonable story. Here in my country there are several military checkpoints along the inter-state highways,.the military have the authority to stop and search for merchandise on both personal vehicles and buses, if they find a bus transporting anything they consider to be unlawful, like a important amount of Merchandise, they would seize it all and the ownership over the bus itself could be lost in a legal limbo. Sadly that is how corrupt the business of transportation is here.
So, in my eyes and knowing how things work here, I personally believe that gambling story to be within the real of the reasonable.
On the other hand, while there are indeed stories about how gambling can change life in a very positive way, those are not the norm, they are the exception, because it is obvious that if all gamblers could share Stories like those ones, then casinos would not be profitable businesses, and there would be easy to see people here in the forum talking about earnings and winnings, instead of addiction to gambling or chasing losses.