I'm trying to imagine how asking my mom or dad for their SSN would go, but maybe it's because my parents didn't just fall off a turnip truck like dekker's lawyer is claiming about his parents.
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As been mentioned before parents allowing alcohol parties in their homes. We let our daughter smoke in our house. Drunk parents having their kids (without a license or permit) drive them home from bars, etc. Hell in High School we used to have card parties and gamble for real money at various friend's houses.
I consider these thing to be similar or worse than letting your kid use your info to gamble.
Yeah, those are all stupid too, but I don't see how that makes creating a fake account for your kid to gamble any better? Sure, relative to other more stupid things, this may be less stupid, but it's still stupid.
Different people have different values and risk levels. If I had a college aged son I'd have no problem using my information to set up a account for him to gamble, but I'd also have him tell me the play and I would make the bet.
Honest question-- who is the victim in this? Let's say Hunter is a very bad gambler who loses thousands. I assume they aren't giving the money back, right? Are they pursuing this legally if he lost money?
Or what if Hunter called in bets for his mom to make. They're in the exact same position they would have been with him making his own bets.
Again, he's an idiot for being this brazen. I'm not here to argue against that. But I absolutely think the criminal piece is overkill, and I while I don't agree with it I can see how his folks wound up in this position.
I don’t want to be rude, but I also don’t know how better to say it, you’re kind of ******* weird so this isn’t exactly shocking news.
I am ******* weird and proud of it.
Oh I agree, don't get me wrong the idiots shouldn't have been betting in the first place as they were obviously warned, but being stupid enough to leave an electronic footprint that leads a path straight to you is next level stupid.
Nobody is the victim here as far as I can tell, and there are lots of victimless crimes that maybe shouldn’t be crimes at all. I don’t know if underage gambling is one of them, gambling addiction is very real and I don’t know if letting kids gamble is a great idea, but I’d be open to other thoughts on that. But that doesn’t really change reality at this point when they still are illegal.
It would be on their tax return, my kids know where I keep those records and could access it without me knowing...
You are making this more difficult then it likely was. If Hunter told his Mom he needed her SS# for something relating to the university, I doubt she would have even questioned him about it. Kids deceive their parents all the time. They are very good at it.
Campbell just said Jirehl has not been practicing. So there’s another confirmation of the rumors
The other four guys originally linked to this (not Dekkers) aren't in legal trouble because they gambled while they were 21+. They're just in NCAA trouble.
(how I translate the situation right now)
Yeah our kids are all adults and all have a flash drive with all of the important info for when we croak. But we’re in our 60’s so it seems important to cover the bases. When your parents are older you need to know stuff even for medical issues and not just the grim reaper.
Then the parents are dumb. Like I said earlier, they are either really dumb, or extremely egotistical to get into a situation like this. There isn’t an alternative.
Good news.... nobody outside of this board probably cares about Iowa State gambling issues any longer
Depends.
NCAA updates gambling punishment for athletes
The NCAA announced Wednesday that it is amending its penalties for student-athletes who violate its gambling policy, increasing leniency and, in some cases, basing punishments on the amount wagered.
www.espn.com
