Topic: The madness of gambling addicts. - page 114. (Read 15876 times)

This is a miserable guy, some guys are committing crimes to support their family, but this guy is committing crimes against their family to gamble considering that this guy is mature, he should know better, his family cannot back him up because of the crime committed against them.
This is not an isolated case, there are so many cases where the perpetrators are head of the family against their family and this is a big concern for the government because the family is an integral part of a country, the perpetrator is really out of his mind for doing this and this is one example if you are hooked to gambling and you are gambling excessively.

[1] https://www.insider.com/shanghai-man-kidnapped-his-own-granddaughter-for-72000-report-2023-4
[2] https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/grandpa-in-china-kidnaps-own-granddaughter-demands-ransom-so-he-can-continue-gambling

many gambling addicts have lost their minds because their desire to continue gambling overpowers their common sense, hence the importance of "gambling responsibly"

This is insanity, honestly....
How could he do such a thing just for a mere urge to lose more on something he's never gonna win, as long as he's too desperate?? That's against the humanitarian law and whatever penalty he faces in jail suits him...
What does the little child Know?... except he had an alternative plan - if not, that's even more riskier than selling a landed property to stake on some odds.. in gambling, the more you try to win, the less you understand ways to do so... Cus at some point, all the options will invariably seem cool to you.... What's the point of going that far? Justice must be taken so he'll learn his lessons.

Sandra 🧑‍🦰

The kind of addict who will not stop even when he'd be in prison. He is too extreme, maybe not just addicted to gambling but also to drugs.

Grandpa must have been high all the time while he kidnapped his granddaughter for ransom. He probably asked for money from his son many times in the past. And when finally the son gives up hoping the father to change, Grandpa ticked.

As far as I understand the article, the man has a gambling debt and wants to settle everything thru gambling.

He needs money and demanded it, not to pay the debt, but rather to continue gambling and taking chances. However, even the man will get the money, he just added another crime. There's no way he will get away with that.

The level of desperation is really insane as it came to the point that he will kidnap his own family just for the sake of having money. Regardless of the reason he has, the was against the law and he needs to face the charges. I'm sure he's not just a gambling addict but maybe addicted too to other sinful activities and that results in his mind turning into trash.

I'm not an expert with law, but  did he just skipped in paying off the debt he had because he's incarcerated? Does he have debts?, I'm quite sure he had, being a gambling addict automatically means you're drowning with debts.
Or does this mean, he'll have to be in jail for an extended year for not being able to pay the debts he made?
It's really crazy what people can do when they're in a desperate position, gambling have ruined a lot of lives, we're all aware of it but not everyone has the ability to control it.

He was being innovative and showing initiative in figuring out how to continue to gamble. Give the guy some credit lol.  Maybe the guys back was against the wall and he owed a lot of money to a loan shark? Something was not reported as to what made this guy go as far as he did and try to harm his own family.

Gambling causes depression and depression leads to committing crime, in the heydays of online cockfighting here in our country, people are committing crimes even to their families, just so they can play online cock fighting.
Gambling is like a drug if you cannot handle the way you take it, you will be miserable.
Imagine committing a crime against your family because you know that your family will forgive you because they want to preserve their family's unity.

He was being innovative and showing initiative in figuring out how to continue to gamble. Give the guy some credit lol.  Maybe the guys back was against the wall and he owed a lot of money to a loan shark? Something was not reported as to what made this guy go as far as he did and try to harm his own family.

in the article it says the man asked for 72000$ ransom and the ransom money was meant for gambling, i wonder why he just didn't borrow money from the child's parents once he asked for 72000$ ransom then it means that the child's parents are in good financial condition if they were not in good financial condition he would not have asked for 72000$ ransom, but I also wonder why ask for so much ransom money? so my theory is the following: probably he should have made a lot of loans to play and lost everything in the game, so the owners of the money started to charge him and knowing that in these countries loan sharks are very famous people in the underworld of crime, there are no using physical violence to get their money back

so he was in a very serious situation, maybe he tried to ask his relatives for money and they didn't give him the money, and as he was in a life or death situation he resorted to the plan of kidnapping his granddaughter to get the money to pay the debts, because I believe in my theory? because if he didn't have any debt and was just an addict trying to get money to gamble he would simply have gone stealing money from his granddaughter's parents in a way that wouldn't call the attention of the police, kidnapping someone is a very risky plan and that draws too much attention and for the large amount he asked for it is not something a simple addict would ask for, a gambling addict would take some asset from granddaughter's parents and sell or ask for a small amount of ransom to gamble

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many gambling addicts have lost their minds because their desire to continue gambling overpowers their common sense, hence the importance of "gambling responsibly"

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He was being innovative and showing initiative in figuring out how to continue to gamble. Give the guy some credit lol.  Maybe the guys back was against the wall and he owed a lot of money to a loan shark? Something was not reported as to what made this guy go as far as he did and try to harm his own family.

The kind of addict who will not stop even when he'd be in prison. He is too extreme, maybe not just addicted to gambling but also to drugs.

Grandpa must have been high all the time while he kidnapped his granddaughter for ransom. He probably asked for money from his son many times in the past. And when finally the son gives up hoping the father to change, Grandpa ticked.