Once in awhile you hear a story that is so disturbing you have to wonder how a person with this mentality has functioned in a civilized world for so long. Online poker player Michael Gallagher from Redcar, East Cleveland was an avid poker player who was no good at the game, which was obvious to anyone reading the original story, which detailed how much money he lost playing poker at an unnamed online poker room. The total losses he accumulated was over 18,800 pounds and not being able to deal with the fact that he lost that much money playing poker he decided he’d threaten to visit the headquarters of the poker site with a sawed off shotgun and kill the entire staff if they did not hand over £31,000 to clear all of his losses that he incurred over the year!
Michael Gallagher sent accusatory emails to the main office of the company, which is located on the Isle of Man with his crazed warning back in May of this year. The very next day, Gallagher sent another email apologizing for his actions and insisted he only wrote the threatening email because he was drunk. Not believing his explanation for the threats, Gallagher was arrested and charged with blackmail, but with a lawyer’s advice before the trial, he pleaded guilty to “the offense of electronic communication conveying a threat”. The judge in the case will be sentencing Gallagher next month but first Judge George Moorhouse has granted probation so a report can be gathered on Gallagher’s background before sentencing is made. Gallagher’s lawyer, Rachel Dyson requested that the judge just sentence Gallagher immediately because he was experiencing high levels of anxiety over his fate but the judge would not hear of it. So let this be a lesson to anyone who can’t afford to lose when gambling, if you can’t afford it, don’t bet it!
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