Taiwan cops probe betting on cancer patient deaths

[Ronzkie23]

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Taiwan cops probe betting on cancer patient deaths

Agence France-Presse
Posted at 01/09/2013 1:56 AM | Updated as of 01/09/2013 1:56 AM

TAIPEI - Taiwan's police said Tuesday they have launched an investigation into a report that gamblers are betting tens of millions of dollars on the life expectancy of terminally ill cancer patients.
The investigation comes after Taipei-based Next magazine claimed that gamblers -- including the families and doctors of cancer sufferers -- in the central city of Taichung are placing bets as high as Tw$1.0 billion ($34.5 million) on when patients will die.
The report describes a rampant new trend served by betting stations in the disguise of non-profit organisations where punters are paid three times their bets if targeted patients die between one and six months of a prediction.
"We've been looking at the media report," a Taichung police officer told AFP, declining to provide details.
Punters are allowed to visit cancer patients before placing their bets, which start at a minimum of Tw$2,000, losing to the bookies if their selected patients die within a month, according to the magazine.
The expose identifies one road with more than 10 betting shops which is now known as "death gambling street". "These offices are the betting stations even though they can hardly be judged from their outlook," it said.
A member of staff at one of the suspected organisations denied that it was a front for a betting station and said the magazine's report was exaggerated when contacted by local China Television Company.
He claimed that the group helped poor families to pay for funerals which they are otherwise unable to afford.

Source: Taiwan cops probe betting on cancer patient deaths | ABS-CBN News

- Grabeh sila noh?pati Cancer patient nga himoon pa nila Sugal.. wa mn ko kabati ana dinhi sa atoa nga naa'y magsugal ana. murag kahinumdum ko ani salidaha ay kato "Lesbian Vampire Warrior" nga chinese nga duha ka Vampire nagsugal kung kanus-a mamatay tiguwang unya mapildi mo inom 1 bottle water.. Unsa kasulti ninyo ani mga brother og sister?

[THE KID]

goodness gracious.....

[mudskipper77]

asa naman tawn ilang mga kasing2 ani? lahi nalang unta ilang gisugalan.

[Dorothea]

We have become desensitized.

[lhorenzoo]

grabeha ani gud . bisag unsa na lay mahunahunaan nga kabuang .

[mudskipper77]

they are just as sick as those people they are betting on...

[Tirong-say]

It's better they would bet on who would die
first between them.
I guess by that, murder would become rampant
in Taiwan, so possible to happen just because of
what they are.

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

grabe, looda mga tawhana, sama ka lood sa 2 girls 1 cup

[edoy]

mas labaw pa ka lo-od sa 2 girls 1 cup

[mio]

2 cops in 1 cup.