Another Quebec casino suicide covered up

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You may have heard all of the rumors and legends of people who lost it all in
the casino. First the paycheck. Then the savings. Then the overdraft. Then the credit cards, then the credit rating. Then the car, then the job, then the wife, then the loan, then the house, and then committed suicide. There is a true story of a man who killed himself in the casino bathroom after losing his house. (in Casino Lac Leamy in Quebec)

Notice that casino suicide is a taboo subject. Though these are true stories of drama and human tragedy, of genuine human
interest and appeal, there somehow are never Hollywood movies done about it. The stories never seem to make
the papers, or they are buried at the back, or to put things in perspective, the stories of the casino suicides are certainly
not the stuff of the local TV evening news.

It's happening, but in the censored and controlled news media, not really. It's not really news worthy, is it?
Some one high up on the food chain doesn't want people knowing about it, do they? Hollywood wants no part of it.
Got a screenplay for them? Not interested. The film which will never be made.

This story is of a 59 year old man who jumped off the bridge, the bridge leading to the Casino Montreal from mainland
Montreal. -It was buried in a french paper, it will be ignored by the media. (this is the second report in a few years
of a body found near the bridge, how many others not reported or done by other means elsewhere...)

It is nonetheless an interesting headline used, even in rough translation from French to English:

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Casino Output is taken lives
No one would have detected symptoms of distress in man of 59 years before he takes the plunge Tuesday at 14 h 15.
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Casino Montreal on Isle Notre Dame (Concorde Bridge to the casino in background)



Wednesday, September 23, 2015

QMI AGENCY | A client Montreal Casino took his own life Tuesday, shortly after leaving the institution.

The 59 year old man would have jumped into the water to 14 h 15 from the Concorde bridge that connects the island of Montreal and St. Helen's Island, said Jean-Pierre Brabant, spokesman Police Service of the City of Montreal (SPVM).

The customer who frequented the casino "time to time" did not show symptoms of distress when he was in the facility, according to the spokesman for Loto-Québec, Patrice Lavoie.

Videotapes

"The casino videotapes were viewed, we talked to employees and no detected symptoms of distress," said Patrice Lavoie, adding that employees and Casino security officers Montreal are trained to spot distress.

"What we know is that he was leaving the casino. It should however be careful before making a causal link, because the problem of gambling addiction is complex and sometimes several factors come into account, "he said.

A coroner attended SPVM investigation into the circumstances of the man's death.

Loto-Québec has implemented a series of measures in place to help the players, including a self-exclusion program. Employees are also trained to intervene. "When a customer presents signs of distress, is sad or crying in a corner, without being in crisis, if the employee has a slight doubt, he should go talk to the customer," said Patrice Lavoie.

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www.casinowatch.org/suicides/suicides.html


Gambling Addiction Suicides

Michigan - A small-business owner, had just returned from a trip to the Las Vegas Strip's MGM Grand Tuesday when he allegedly killed his pregnant wife and three children (under 7 years old) before turning the gun on himself. In his Mich., home, police found a suicide note blaming gambling addiction - and $225,000 in shredded casino markers. His business was $500,000 in debt because he withdrew the money to cover his gamblling.
Las Vegas Sun 11/22/00 Las Vegas Review-Journal 11/23/00

Atlantic City - An 11-year-old Herndon girl died yesterday after initially surviving the slayings of her mother and brother and the suicide of her father, who authorities now say had defrauded area banks of nearly $2 million and had $10 million in gambling and other debts.
Washington Post 8/6/98

LA - On Thursday, another fight about gambling steeled Jueliene Butler's determination to leave her husband, as her children raced down the street on their bicycles and tricycles. The two shots that resounded through the neighborhood ended a tempestuous 26-year marriage between Rodney and Jueliene Butler in a murder-suicide heard by their 13-year-old daughter.
Times Picayune 5/8/98

IL - Each turned on the ignition of their Olds Regency after stretching a vacuum hose from the exhaust pipe into the car's interior, climbing in and rolling up the windows. Carol, 63, was the obsessive gambler. Disabled and saddled with the monstrous debt she had created, Skip, 69 had wanted to join her. Undone by a ravenous habit that cost them $200,000, a house, a nest egg and two lives, it was Carol who left a terse hint of the forest of guilt and fear that had grown around them. Bexson and Carol Warriner chose suicide as a last exit from gambling habits.
Los Angeles Times 6/22/97

ATLANTIC CITY -- An unidentified man hanged himself under the Boardwalk on Thursday, the third suicide outside a casino in the last three months, police said.
The Associated Press 6/9/00

ATLANTIC CITY -- A 50-year-old Ventnor man apparently committed suicide Tuesday afternoon by jumping off the parking garage of a casino, police said.
LAS VEGAS SUN 4/5/00

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A German tourist jumped to his death off a 10-story casino parking garage Wednesday in the third such suicide in eight days.
The Associated Press 8/25/99

Atlantic City - Ex-casino worker leaps to death from roof of Trump Marina. He is the fifth person to jump from a casino here and die since August 1999.
South Jersey Publishing CO 5/27/00

Atlantic City - A bloodied body was found at the entrance to the Sands Casino Hotel parking garage just before 8 a.m. Investigators believe he fell two stories to his death but don't know much more than that.
South Jersey Publishing 7/30/00

Atlantic City - The 36-year-old Florida man leaped seven stories to his death Tuesday after losing between $50,000 and $87,000 at Trump Plaza.
South Jersey Publishing Co. 8/19/99

CT - He had developed a gambling habit over the past few months that began on a trip to Las Vegas this summer. Police believe he was driving home from Foxwoods Resort Casino when, in desperation, he killed himself by hanging.
The Day Publishing 9/9/00

A Long Island teen who had a "death wish" because of a $6,000 World Series gambling debt used a $1.75 toy gun to force cops to shoot and kill him, police said yesterday.
New York Post 11/16/97

Detroit - A gambler losing big dollars in the high-roller area of the MotorCity Casino in Detroit pulled out a gun Wednesday, shot himself in the head and died, police said. He was playing double hands at $500 per hand, and lost $10,000 that night.
Detroit Free Press 1/27/00

BILOXI, Miss. -- Police are trying to determine what caused a gambler down on his luck to shoot three people before killing himself at a busy Gulf Coast casino.
ASSOCIATED PRESS 1/15/01

Miss - In May 1996, Bay St. Louis, Miss., resident James Shamburger, a casino regular, hanged himself with a dog leash.

IL - No one knows why Howard Russell took his life, but authorities found he had taken more than $13,000 in advances on his credit cards during an eight-hour gambling spree on the riverboat.
Sun Times 7/28/97

IL - Since casinos opened in Joliet five years ago, Will County Coroner Patrick O'Neil said he has handled three suicides involving people who had racked up debts on the riverboats. But there are others, he said, such as the Kankakee couple who killed themselves outside O'Neil's jurisdiction.
Sun Times 7/28/97

IL - 27-year-old Larry ruined his career, maxed out his credit cards and finally killed himself after gambling away his girlfriend's rent money.
TODAY 8/13/01

IL - A gambler, Robert Jewell, threatened to spray gunfire in an Elgin, Ill., casino, then returned home and shot himself.
Los Angeles Times 6/22/97

IL - Kate, 40, a gambling addict and mother of 2, committed suicide by shooting herself in the head.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 2/22/95

TAMPA -- The night Hillsborough State Attorney Harry walked into a darkened field carrying his gun, he already was mired deep in gambling debt and facing an investigation. He committed suicide.
St. Petersburg Times 11/28/00

AZ - Harrah's Indian gambling director committed suicide over a jackpot dispute.
The Associated Press 1/21/98

LA - After a night of drinking at a Kenner casino Saturday night, a Ponchatoula man, 21, apparently shot himself to death in his car outside the gambling boat, police said.
Times Picayune 11/8/99

MO - Mother committed suicide after secret, luckless trips to Casino St. Charles.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 3/3/96

Las Vegas - Pierce was the second prominent actor to take his life in a little more than a year. In March 1999, David Strickland hanged himself at the Oasis Motel, 1731 Las Vegas Blvd. South. Strickland was in the TV series "Suddenly Susan."
Las Vegas Review-Journal 7/12/00

LAS VEGAS (AP) - A 24-year-old Utah man scaled two security barriers and jumped to his death from the observation deck of the 1,149-foot Stratosphere Tower hotel-casino late Wednesday, police said.
Las Vegas Sun 1/6/00

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- The bullets fired by the family man and Alabama Power employee struck three people he'd apparently never met inside the 23-story hotel and casino, and sparked a panic that didn't end until a dozen other people were injured in the melee. McConnell then shot himself in the head. A casino employee said he had been in the casino before and was upset after losing at the slot machines.
Alabama Live 1/15/01

Las Vegas - They have bank statements showing that Batdorf drained his $17,000 Florida bank account in 11 days. Between August and September he made $600 daily ATM withdrawals as often as three times a day and maxed out his credit cards that put him $72,000 in debt. A pawn shop ticket with his name and thumbprint on it prove he hocked the last of his things, among them the ceramic W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers figurines his mom gave him for Christmas. All activity stopped on his credit cards and bank statements a little over two months later in Las Vegas -- about the same time a man's body matching Batdorf's description turned up in the desert, dead from a .357-caliber gunshot wound in the head.
Las Vegas SUN 10/31/98

CA - A compulsive gambler shot and killed himself in San Diego. It was at least the second such suicide in that city within the past few months, yet these events are rarely reported and when they are, the connection with gambling is often overlooked.
The Los Angeles Times 6/30/97

Iowa - Where a 19-year-old college dropout, Jason Berg, shot himself to death in June 1994, despairing over a budding gambling habit.
Los Angeles Times 6/22/97

A Long Island teen who had a "death wish" because of a $6,000 World Series gambling debt used a $1.75 toy gun to force cops to shoot and kill him, police said yesterday.
New York Post 11/16/98

Pergament, depressed over $6,000 in gambling debts, got himself shot Friday night by threatening officers with what turned out to be a toy gun, police said. They call it "suicide by co" -- and say they've seen it before.
The Associated Press 11/17/97

My father, a successful lawyer in Los Angeles, was also a compulsive gambler, and he killed himself in 1976, shortly after one of his many trips to Las Vegas.
WARD M. WINTON St. Paul, Dec. 16, 1997

SALEM, Ore. - A Eugene woman who blames her brother's suicide on the state lottery's video poker network filed a lawsuit Tuesday that would constitutionally invalidate the lottery.
The Register-Guard 7/25/01

RI - Hours after Police Chief Thomas Moffatt was found dead Nov. 20, apparently a suicide, in the basement of the police station, four city officials were told of reports that the chief had been borrowing money from subordinates to pay gambling debts.
The Providence Journal 11/30/98

Miss. - After two losing days at the Tunica gambling tables, Ronnie Austin told his wife he was ready to leave. By the time she caught up to him in the Horseshoe Casino parking garage, the Cordova resident was dead from a 9 mm gunshot wound to the chest, an apparent suicide captured on security camera videotape.
The Commercial Appeal 3/17/98

Las Vegas - Tillander became immersed in a gambling habit. While no one knows the extent of Tillander's debts, his inability to stop gambling left him unwilling to go on. "His finances were getting out of control," Flatt says. "Gambling is a tough addiction because when you confront someone about it, there is usually very little evidence." authorities found Tillander's body in his apartment. He had crafted the cyanide gas concoction, stuck his head in a pup tent and taken in the deadly fumes.
Las Vegas Review-Journal 11/16/98

CT - A bank employee and father with a gambling habit, in desperation, killed himself by hanging after leaving a casino.
The Day Publishing Online 9/9/00

CT - The body of 28-year-old John Diakos was found in a casino parking lot after he committed suicide by ingesting a mixture of drugs and cutting his arms.
The Day Publishing Online 9/9/00

CT - 38-year-old woman of Stamford drowned herself by wading into the Thames River after losing hundreds of dollars at gambling the maximum amount allowed on her credit cards at the casino.
The Day Publishing Online 9/9/00

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well we have 40-60,000 gamblers in cmkx that are candidates and no casino. does this relate in some manner? hmmmm