High rollers, big losers
Area casinos have exacted a terrible toll from some local gamblers, and the state has done practically nothing to treat people who get hooked
By ANDREW Z. GALARNEAU
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
11/27/2005
NIAGARA FALLS - If you were being swept toward the brink of Niagara Falls and your feet suddenly caught on a crack in the limestone, would you call that lucky?
A 47-year-old Buffalo accountant gambled away several thousand dollars in the Seneca Niagara Casino on March 19, 2003. He wrote a goodbye note and stepped into the Niagara River.
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Area casinos have exacted a terrible toll from some local gamblers, and the state has done practically nothing to treat people who get hooked
By ANDREW Z. GALARNEAU
NEWS NIAGARA BUREAU
11/27/2005
NIAGARA FALLS - If you were being swept toward the brink of Niagara Falls and your feet suddenly caught on a crack in the limestone, would you call that lucky?
A 47-year-old Buffalo accountant gambled away several thousand dollars in the Seneca Niagara Casino on March 19, 2003. He wrote a goodbye note and stepped into the Niagara River.
... continued - (Dead link: http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051127/1054592.asp)