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Gambling Addict Spends $1M On Lottery Tickets - YouTube
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I was so addicted to gambling that it
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took over my life
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Adam Osmond was once one of the most
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prolific gamblers in the US this is
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probably about a million dollar but then
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again that's only the last two years of
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my gambling that's just a small part of
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me I came here to go to college and I've
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been here ever since I got married have
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my children and I've been here almost 30
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years now the tragic thing with Adam he
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used his abilities he used his hard work
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and he fell victim to one of the other
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things in America what I've heard called
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the jackpot many Adam used to run to
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convenience stores in Connecticut
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between 2002 and 2008 he started
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spending thousands of dollars on the
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lottery in his store every week and the
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only reason why I was in that business
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was just to support my addiction
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this is $10.00 it has never even been
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scratched these are 30 dollars a ticket
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I will buy them by the book each books
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25 or 30 and you multiply 30 30 that's
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about $900 so I was hiding the tickets
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from my family and I was so addicted to
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gambling that it took over my life he
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knew what he was doing was destroying
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himself and his family
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in March 2008 Adams suffered a nervous
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breakdown after over a decade of
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compulsive gambling the first week I
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printed about fifty four thousand
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tickets
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none of them was cash you didn't even
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check II you cannot even possibly
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achieve all those numbers the kinetic
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allowed early called me because I didn't
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pay for it I couldn't pay for it I was
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crying for help by lo they supposed to
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shut my machine by that time in the next
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week I printed tickets again non-stop
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for three weeks
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Adam printed over two hundred and fifty
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thousand dollars worth of lotto tickets
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before his machine was finally shut down
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the Connecticut lottery did not share my
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machine off and when I was late payment
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or even when I print all those tickets
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because I was very hot valuable to them
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and I was one of their best customers he
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was the first and only gambling addict
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to be convicted for printing lottery
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tickets it's really sad because you know
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this used to be my family in here and
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now they are not here and you know when
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I look at it around the house after
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being charged
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Adam was ordered to pay the sum of the
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tickets printed despite never cashing
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any of them in his wife and three
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children three girls had to go to
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Virginia to live with relatives because
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of his financial world and he sends
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money to them and he lives in squalor
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because in the u.s. the odds of winning
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the overall lottery are approximately
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one in 258 million in Connecticut there
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are up to nine lotto draws a day each
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game costing between $0.50 and $5 with
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scratch cards on top of this price from
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one dollar up to $30 each
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the Connecticut lottery does run
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programs to support addicted gamblers
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and a percentage of the profits go
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towards government programs such as
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libraries Public Safety and education
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since I stopped gambling when I hit the
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bottom I pick it up a better habit when
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I was gambling in my mind was always
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numbers numbers I'll be driving in and
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it's the bus driver of me I will pick
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down numbers and say that oh you know
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that bus number had three or five seven
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and I will go to my store and play three
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or five seven or whatever number that I
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saw sunshine I run its know I run in
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November 2015 seven years after his
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original conviction a new judge reviewed
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his case and found his original penalty
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to be illegal he no longer has to pay
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back the remaining money from the
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uncashed tickets tell my friends I'm
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running away from gambling and this time
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we're running I said I'm running away
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from the lottery
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you
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