Security wise, gambling is capable of getting the best of you

[Jerrycrypto2024]

Op I won't say that this don't happen, it's usually thing that has been happening mostly the area of putting much focus on the game and forgot all discussion or instructions given, I will tell with fact that before the boy reply his parents his only echoes but his attention and the information was not absorbed. I realized one neighbor I hard his capable of staying hours playing aviator lossing and wining fraction and sending addiction money into the wallet of the gambling site, some gambler get addicted and lack control measures it's a pity and thing of  empathy to the happening, it's as result of not knowing the purpose of thing that leads to abuse for my perception addiction that is extreme is abuse that leads to such situations.

[BItcoin Guy@]

Gambling is definitely addictive, the more often one comes here, the faster one will become addicted to it and no matter how much he loses, he will return to gambling frequently. He will not care how much gambling is harming him financially. Actually, gambling is not a bad thing, it keeps the mind happy and provides entertainment, but when it is used more than necessary and the entertainment aspect is taken to the level of a source of income, then it becomes a bad habit that never lets him stop gambling.

Gambling is a way of making someone become addicted to it easily, because the more you're staking and winning, the more it makes you put out more money and make it another way of generating income, and that is a big mistake for anyone that tries to make betting a way of earning money. He will have a big problem in the future when he doesn't have another alternative. When you're gambling, it should be as entertainment to you, not just playing to be getting money, because it can make you put what you cannot afford to lose and later regret it.

[Mrbluntzy]

Apart from gambling, there are times when someone could be too carried away with some activities that they are doing and forget to do what they were asked to, but as for this case, the guy is probably addicted to gambling that he became careless about self security and there are always cases like these where the victims are people that were addicted to gambling. I want to assume that what happened would serve as a lesson to him and he would learn make other important things a priority before going to have fun.

[Findingnemo]

I just don't know how to react to this, what is the friend is locked and the robbers still break into the house? Then what is the solution?

It is common sense though, lock the door and be cautious about our surroundings like locking the door when we are inside the house and this don't really need a discussion further to say what should we do at this point.

[goldkingcoiner]

On this last Saturday night a friend of mine was attacked at home, he locked himself in his room gambling on his laptop, her mother was out for a church masses and she told him to lock the door behind.

He was carried away playing casino slots and some minutes later some group of men entered and robbed them all, four different houses nearby was robbed completely, he completely forgot to lock the door as instructed, he and his little niece were still in shock.

I don't get this news until Monday evening when the niece was taken to hospital, the shock got the best of her that she got her menstral flow all of a sudden, she is just 8years old.

Before you jump on your bed and start gambling away like no tomorrow do not forget to lock the door, gambling is as addictive as anything, your sense of surroundings depreciates real fast.

Always check the doors first before anything else.

I do not think this has anything to do with gambling. Perhaps it shows the start of a gambling addiction, which needs to be taken seriously before it gets out of hand, but definitely not something directly with gambling.

What if he did the same thing but instead of gambling, he was too much into video games and made the same mistake?

Nobody expects to get robbed until they get robbed.

Important thing is that they are all safe and alive. It could have been much worse.

[BigTarget]

On this last Saturday night a friend of mine was attacked at home, he locked himself in his room gambling on his laptop, her mother was out for a church masses and she told him to lock the door behind.

He was carried away playing casino slots and some minutes later some group of men entered and robbed them all, four different houses nearby was robbed completely, he completely forgot to lock the door as instructed, he and his little niece were still in shock.

This is not necessarily what gambling did to him but his own carelesness. He knew he lived in a rough neighbourhood and didn't lock the door. It's human error and he should've been more security conscious, he caused it on himself because he could've locked the door before he started gambling.
Although we can blame it on his addiction to gambling, but this is really more on the gambler's carelessness and not gambling itself.

You are right and on my first reading, I thought OP's friend got escaped from robbery because title is saying like gambling helps to bring out the best of gamblers but after my second reading, I am sure the subject-line must be misleading. The real problem in the story must be the gamblers irresponsible act. But we cannot simply move-on from that because making a common man to be irresponsible must be the consequences of gambling addiction.

Being a gambler or not, we always must need to stay vigilant so that we can protect ourself but when we are continuously gambling and we might forger our surrounding which might lead to the situation like what OP is explaining above. Playing games with limit may help to avoid such kind of situations.

[Yorubek]

Awareness is very important in every field which helps to protect people from big losses or dangers. I think according to OP the man should have locked the door of the house properly before starting gambling, the man was so desperate to gamble that he completely forgot his mother told him to lock the door while leaving the house due to which some people entered their house very easily and locked them up very easily. Gambling is for fun, it is not that we have to stop all the necessary things and gamble, those who basically stop their necessary things on the other hand, without paying any attention, just become desperate to gamble then we have to understand that he is not gambling for fun, he is definitely a hunting of addiction due to which he forgot the safety issue and is giving more importance to gambling than necessary.

[acroman08]

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This can literally happen on any activity that you do. That being said, the thought of finally being able to gamble probably distracted him enough to forget to lock the doors. I mean, forgetting things that I need to do has happened to me a lot of times because my mind is thingking of other things.

I just don't know how to react to this, what is the friend is locked and the robbers still break into the house? Then what is the solution?

Either stand your ground and fight back, and if you have a gun, use it, hide, or look for another way out of the house and then call the police.

[Fuso.hp]

From what I understood from your description, it seems that the person you are talking about was completely busy with his work and did not notice what was happening outside, but what I am talking about is that when his house was robbed, there was a noise or something else happened, but he did not know anything about it, so did his two ears stop working along with his full attention. That is good, if your friend did not gamble with his utmost attention outdoors, it could have happened that the car horn from behind honked while he was gambling like that. It is not good to be so interested in something, if because of his gambling he forgets everything except gambling, it will definitely bring bad things to him. There is still time for you to convince him and bring him back to his normal life, otherwise it will be difficult to handle him when things take a big shape.

[YellowSwap]

Accepted that he was on slots game which is a casino game, but is he was busy playing Assassin's creed on PS5 this same thing would have happened, ordinary TikTok doom scrolling have make alot of people lose their senses.

The blame is really not on gambling, when it's time to engage in fun activities you need to be fully prepared, safety precautions first, this person is just careless and forgetful.

He got carried away, it's possible that even the most careful person can also immediately forget something, I have left my kitchen door open through out the night before, it was when I woke up in the morning I knew, this has never happened before.