Is Being Drunk A Reason To Welch On Paying?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26476980
I can't see this getting very far, it would pretty well kill off gambling!

[steg]

i wonder if he had won $500 000, would he of handed it back cause he won it while drunk

[joggerjayne]

I was going to post what steg has said.

Wouldn't it be nice to have a bit of "risk free" gambling. If you win, you keep it. If you lose, you walk away and say you'd been drinking.

Thinking about it, we are nearly always trolleyed when we go to the casino. It's usually on a Friday night, and it's usually ...

Meet at a pub (drink), go on to a bar (drink), go for dinner (drink), go on to a club (drink), roll out of the club and go to the casino (drink).

I think I should get refund for all the times I've ever lost money in the casino.

[ludwig]

Should being drunk be a reason to get out of anything?

'Ok, so I robbed the post office\punched the flight attendant\signed the contract, but I was clearly intoxicated so I'm not actually responsible'.

On the other hand, if you have sex with someone who's drunk enough for a court to consider they weren't in a fit condition to give consent, I'm pretty sure that's rape. This is the strategy he's going for - ie they took advantage of the fact that he was so bladdered he didn't know what he was doing, and effectively raped him financially.

I doubt it'll work. As you say TTT, it could put the whole gaming industry out of business overnight.

[Old_Geezer]

One sees the opinion that banks and mobile phone operates have some sort of responsibility to spot questionable activity and protect their customers from possible loss. And Publicans are not supposed to continue serving those drunk. So i can see some might wish to say the same must be applied to casinos. I am intrigued at the possibility of handing winnings back though. Of course if a form of protection was in place it would not be an issue. I think any such judgement could not be retrospective though.

[ummmm]

He shouldn't have been allowed to gamble if he was drunk.

[pixie373]

Perhaps he should control his drinking, if it's causing him problems. If he'd got in his car, he wouldn't have "got off" because he was drunk. People still have to take responsibility for themselves.