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Shopworkers take day's takings to casino, bet it all on red at roulette, and lose
TWO “grossly stupid” shop workers headed to the casino with the day’s takings – and lost it in one swoop at the roulette table before calmly ringing their boss to confess. It started as a joke between sales manager Kieron Trott, 19, and his 48-year-old colleague Christopher Cameron, a shopfloor worker, at Poundstretcher in Pallion Retail Park, Sunderland magistrates heard.
The pair were cashing up the day’s takings at the end of their shift on October 13, last year, when they started discussing what it would be like to gamble the £3,380 on red at the roulette wheel. But when their bet went badly wrong after a casino visit, the pair went back to the store and calmly rang their boss to admit what they had done.
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“Mr Cameron was working his regular shift. It was just the two of them and part of the routine is to check the cash that has been taken that day. “They are joking saying ‘what would it be like if we took this money and gambled it’. Unbelievably, they persuaded themselves to do this. “He can’t quite believe it. He described being in the casino a matter of minutes. “They were seen transferring the cash into chips then go to the table saying ‘red?’ and ‘yes’. Lo and behold it came up on black.”
Both defendants were given 12-month community orders and were told to pay £110 each in costs and surcharges. Trott was told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work, while Cameron will have to do 66 hours.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/poundstretcher-staff-lost-day-s-3-380-takings-by-gambling-it-all-on-red-at-casino-1-7068941
The pair were cashing up the day’s takings at the end of their shift on October 13, last year, when they started discussing what it would be like to gamble the £3,380 on red at the roulette wheel. But when their bet went badly wrong after a casino visit, the pair went back to the store and calmly rang their boss to admit what they had done.
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“Mr Cameron was working his regular shift. It was just the two of them and part of the routine is to check the cash that has been taken that day. “They are joking saying ‘what would it be like if we took this money and gambled it’. Unbelievably, they persuaded themselves to do this. “He can’t quite believe it. He described being in the casino a matter of minutes. “They were seen transferring the cash into chips then go to the table saying ‘red?’ and ‘yes’. Lo and behold it came up on black.”
Both defendants were given 12-month community orders and were told to pay £110 each in costs and surcharges. Trott was told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work, while Cameron will have to do 66 hours.
http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/crime/poundstretcher-staff-lost-day-s-3-380-takings-by-gambling-it-all-on-red-at-casino-1-7068941
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I don't understand what went wrong... 
Betting with other people's $$$$..isn't that the way it is done these days...
have to ban anything else that a person with a gambling addiction could, or would, bet on.
Horse racing. Dog racing. Sports pools. High stakes poker games.
Literally anything where someone can bet money on an outcome
(Not to be contrary...I really don't know what the answer is to this either)
