People can be heartless. The most shocking story that I will be hoping to read is someone using their pops or moms money for funeral for gambling..this story will break the internet.
The guy in the story is going to live with regret for the rest of his life..He cost the girl the marriage, her mental health, her money.
There is more worse than that, selling/gambling wife and kids to meet the father's gambling activity is the worst, IMO. Here are some of the article that were published in the internet:
Man loses wife as stake in IPL gamblingThis was published in 2016 where a husband bet his wife on an IPL and lost her. The wife does not know the she was used as a stake when the guy who won started to harrass her.
Gambler sold his wife, minor daughter; family rescued by officialsIn Short
Man sold his wife, three daughters and son to settle gambling debt
He sold his minor daughter to relative for Rs 1.5 lakh
Police have rescued the children
That is the kind of stuff I meant some posts ago when I said there are worse ways and outcomes when comes to letting gambling and betting addiction to take over oneself. I knew there were stories of people literally using others as collateral (I assumed it was something in developing countries of Asia, for example), but this may be the first reference I have read in Bitcointalk.
At least, the final outcome of those victims was not as bad as one would have expected, since they got rescued by authorities, however, let us reflex on other cases which did not get resolved by police and people had to live in conditions of slavery because someone who was supposed to take care of them used them as poker chips instead.
True deranged and disgusting. How knows, perhaps the woman who lost that wedding money actually dodged a bullet in the long term, she could have ended up being used as a chip someday...
Addictions to gambling and betting include more than simply financial loss; they also involve losing one's identity, morals, and occasionally, as you said, other people. I have heard about it and seen it, but it's just different.
People being used as collateral now? That's just... it's beyond comprehension. It surpasses our capacity for imagination. Furthermore, even while it's fantastic that some people were saved, there are innumerable others who weren't. who, as a result of the most unbelievable betrayal by someone they trusted, are still suffering today. It's incredibly painful, genuinely painful.
And that gal who misplaced the nuptial funds? Perhaps, just perhaps, she avoided a more serious problem. Perhaps she saved herself from being mistreated, exploited, and considered as a commodity in the future. Though that's a frightening idea, many people actually live with it. Such horrible deeds require us to be alert, watchful, and willing to confront them. It is our obligation and our liability.
Well, it is certainly horrible and very difficult to digest but people being used as colateral is not necessarily something new in the history of mandkind. It used to be more common, you know, when slavery was a normal thing around the world and when women were considered to be of a lesser importance than the men, to the point of being treated as merchandise.
The disturbing feeling comes when we realize that those disgusting practices have actually not been left in the past, they have mostly just hid themselves in an underground market in hopes to stay away from public scrunity.
I believe that what that woman is going through could be actually a good thing, a miracle in disguise, because there could have been a minimal but real possibilty she could have ended up being mistreated, abused or even sexual exploited to keep her husband's gambling going...
