Prison for US gamblers

[ZephyrUK]

I just read a news story about some poor guy from the US that has been imprisoned for refusing to testify in some US federal investigation into an internet gambling operation. Apparently he is the tenth person to be jailed in this investigation and they are all just gamblers, not the actual people running the operation. :confused: How mad is that? :eek:

[got_craps]

Them feds dont mess about do they :( sounds like a pretty important investigation if they are jailing gamblers for not talking. I wonder if they will make a movie about it after. :D

[ZephyrUK]

crappy said I wonder if they will make a movie about it after.
Now that would be cool, at least we would then get to see the full story. :confused:

[russian_roulette]

pretty important investigation if they are jailing gamblers for not talking You've got to remember this is Americans we're talking about and adjust accordantly. 45% of Americans are Creationists, say no more ;)

[got_craps]

hey rouly you said 45% of Americans are Creationists, say no more

Please do. :D

[ZephyrUK]

Hey rouly, what has Americans being creationists got to do with them jailing people for not testifying in an investigation into a gambling operation? :confused:

[russian_roulette]

Zehhyr, you say UK, but I do wonder...
I'm not picking on Creationists, although believing everything was created in 7 days (6 not including God's day off) and Eve was made from Adams ribs is unreal. My point was the amount of Americans that think this is true. I could have said 62% believe in the Devil.
I could have made it non-religious, 37% of Americans Believe Jack Bauer, from the 24 TV show, is REAL. I could have gone global, 51% of Americans feel that the planet's atmosphere isn't warming, or 18% think the Sun revolves around the Earth. And as for conspiracies, the list is endless... A third of Americans suspect the government for 9-11

Do you see what I mean now? I would you like me to spell it out for you?

[got_craps]

nice one rouly :D I like your stats but i bet the figures arent that much different for people in the UK. :confused:

[ZephyrUK]

crappy said
i bet the figures arent that much different for people in the UK.
I'd agree with that, especially with the amount of immigrants we keep getting in the UK ;)

[Bingo]

Well I dont like to stir things up , but according to the British Council as reported on the BBC .......

More than half of British adults think that intelligent design and creationism should be taught alongside evolution in schoolscience lessons – a proportion higher than in the US.

:D:D

[russian_roulette]

just goes to show there's stupidity on both sides of the Atlantic

[jamessol]

guess its a cover-up as they cannot catch the big fish...
they do that in their movies LOL!

[russian_roulette]

to much money involved to stop the big fish ;)

[bennjackson123]

this is soo funny :P