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Topic: Can a Brain Tumor Turn
You Into a Gambler? |
Can a Brain Tumor Turn
You Into a Gambler?
Time, by Maia Szalavitz
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Posted By:StormCnter, 2/16/2013 6:05:03 AM
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| Former San Diego mayor Maureen O’Connor’s attorneys argued this week that a tumor contributed to her betting more than $1 billion and losing $3 billion over a decade. Appearing in federal court, O’Connor also admitted to stealing $2.1 million from the charity foundation set up by her late husband, Jack in the Box founder Robert Peterson, to fund her video poker habit. The Justice Department agreed to defer prosecution as she attempts to repay the debt. Since 2001, IRS records suggest that her winnings totaled $1 billion— but her losses were even greater. If O’Connor gets treatment
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
jgat, 2/16/2013 6:28:09 AM (No. 9179376)
Your Honor, the tumor stole the money and the dog ate my homework!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
planetgeo, 2/16/2013 6:29:50 AM (No. 9179379)
Maybe Obama should have a cat scan.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
uno, 2/16/2013 6:44:16 AM (No. 9179394)
Let´s face it, nobody has a gambling problem so long as they´re winning. It´s when you´re losing and you can´t pay, now that´s when you all of a sudden have a gambling problem!
Funny how that works isn´t it?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Spidey, 2/16/2013 6:50:47 AM (No. 9179401)
If I was sitting on a multi billion fortune with nothing to do with my life,I might get addicted to video poker or slot machines. Luckily I don´t have to worry about that problem,living in abject poverty.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Zarin, 2/16/2013 6:58:15 AM (No. 9179415)
So she got away with this because ...? Links nicely to that article about the murderess who is ´not suspected´ of a horrific crime just because she is female.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird, 2/16/2013 8:04:16 AM (No. 9179521)
I suppose a tumor in the area of the brain that controls impulse could contribute to an addiction like this, but Maureen looked kind of sly while making a statement on the news last night. I was never impressed by her.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jorgecito, 2/16/2013 8:28:25 AM (No. 9179577)
Interesting article -- lists some specific examples of how tumors have affected behavior.
But as the doctor who was quoted said, it´s "location, location, location." Afaik, the location of O´Connors tumor hasn´t been divulged.
So I´m skeptical that O´Connor´s gambling had anything to do with a tumor. I´d bet (little joke) that O´Connors tumor was a small, cell-phone induced growth near an ear -- whichever ear she held her cell phone up to.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
JAN, 2/16/2013 9:57:58 AM (No. 9179788)
All things are possible when you are a democrat.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
mitzi, 2/16/2013 11:39:28 AM (No. 9180041)
Why is Time asking its readers that question?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mominNoCA, 2/16/2013 11:39:59 AM (No. 9180044)
Not unless you´re a powerful Democrat with a dead rich husband.
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