You Gotta Love This Guy
Jimmy L. Vance of Kentucky is suing Caesars Indiana, claiming the casino got him extremely drunk and then forced a $75,000 credit line on him, which he quickly gambled away on craps and black jack.
Vance apparently agreed to repay the $75,000 within 28 days, but his checks to cover the debt bounced like a bunch of keno balls, and Caesars filed an initial suit to collect. Our hero, however, would have none of that, turning the tables on those nasty old casino officials with a counter-suit.
Seems our lovable, besotted gambler feels he was taken advantage of.
"They kept serving me till I was totally intoxicated. In fact, I don't remember losing all the money," said Vance, a developer from Corbin, Ky.
Well if you ever wanted an example of a sympathetic character, old Jimbo certainly fits the bill. I mean, who among us hasn't received a collection notice for 75 grand and not been able to remember spending the money? Boy, if I had a nickel for every time that's happened to me . . .
Vance's lawyer, Larry Wilder, is another lovable character in this play. He's cited "dram-shop" laws to support his case. If you're not familiar with them, dram-shops are laws that make taverns liable for damages if they serve an intoxicated customer who then leaves the premises and harms himself or others. And Wilder maintains that's what happened to his client.
Whoa! Did you see that sleight of hand? If the judge in the case isn't careful, that slick, big city lawyer's going to have him for breakfast.
I'm just kidding. I'm sure the judge knows that a casino is nothing but an enormous, brightly colored tavern, and that even though Vance didn't leave the premises, his losing $75,000 was harmful to various outside parties, including several liquor stores, a handful of porn shops, and the prostitution community at large. Dram-shops are the exact laws to cite in support of this case. As dram-shop cases go, Vance's incident is a textbook example, just like The Da Vinci Code is a textbook example of accurate, well-written history.
Wilder claims the casino is responsible for Vance's losses and that Caesars violated state law by "serving him alcohol while he was drunk, impairing his ability to enter into a contractual agreement".
Asks Wilder rhetorically:
"Does Indiana, where gambling is now encouraged and permitted, have any duty to expect its gambling boats not to serve (patrons) when they become blind, running drunk?"
Okay, so Vance had a lapse in judgement one night and drank too much. But should his own lawyer speak that way about him in a court of law? Well, it appears that Vance doesn't mind. In fact, that's another aspect of his character that makes him so lovable.
Vance has stated that he's lost at least $500,000 over the years at Caesars, and he's aware that people might think he's "getting what he deserves by gambling while knocking back cocktails for hours on end". But he insists that when he's had too much to drink on occasional trips to Atlantic City, the casino bosses refused to let him continue gambling.
Now here's a guy that's in a good place with his vices. He enjoys a cocktail or twenty, and by golly he likes to gamble. But like any of us would, he puts his trust in the casinos to recognize when he's had too much and to cut him off. And who wouldn't? Casinos are our friends. They have no real interest in separating us from our money, do they? It's all wholesome entertainment and nothing more, right? If we can't trust casinos to help us make good judgements, my god, who can we trust?
Clearly Caesars Indiana has dropped the ball on this one, and I can only hope that Vance's lawsuit to get out of a gambling debt they forced on him can restore the good name of casinos forever.
I can hope, but I wouldn't bet on it.
posted by Sam Ogden at
12:23 PM
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I wish I would have heard of this when it happened.
I actually have insight into some backgournd about him and those people he is affiliated with. They are all wealthy trash.
His wife is my ex-husband's sister. I trusted that they would not do me worng. However, when my ex-husband told me to get out of the house and in so many words take the kids because I wanted them and he didn't, I bought my own house through Vance's wife - my ex-husband's sister. She withheld the inspection from me. I bought a house that had no sewer vents, a furnace that blew up six weeks after I bought the house and many other things. These things were all in the inspector's report that was withheld from me. Because the cousin was the city clerk, I couldn't get my water turned on. I had to go through the gracuious mayor Nighbert to get it turned on. Because the family had control over the local banks, I couldn't get a bank account or credit card. In fact, they allowed my ex-husband to cut me off from the joint bank account I had originally set up with my paycheck being automatically direct deposited into it. I lost approximately %7,000 that I had put into the acocunt and mutual funds through his cousin that was the son of Bruce Barton. I was supposed to get 50% of the proceeds of the house if it was ever sold. After David Barton realized that I quit claim deeded it to him and had my name removed from the loan, he was extremely angry that I hadn't paid two months payments on it. Thankfully, I am in Human Resources and was on a first name basis with our corporate payroll who immediately pulled the entire payroll to save me. I had a bank account in Michigan where I got a Visa card with a phone call and had my checks deposited there so they could not harm me. This man pays $400.00 per month child support and makes about $80,000 per year. Their status in that area makes them able to financially terrorize those who oppose them. I have tried to re-cop but am sadly about to loose my home because of refusal to pay medical insurance for the children , basic needs, an so on..... I could give you meore information but then a I am sure those low lifes would sue me for defamation or some othe crap.
I wish someone would listen to me about what worthless, wastes of good breathing air they are. I pity the poeple of Corbin area. you are all down-troden and oppressed by people who are not fit for your efforts.
Also, my teen aged daughter is wll aware of the sexuyal harassment that Mr. Vanc perpetrates on young girls....and his wife turns a blind eye just as she did to putting her own nephew and niece in a dangerous home.
Thanks for making me grow and know I cannot have any of you in my life. And, Dr. Don, thanks for not listening to my pleas for help. You helped me not trust the doctors who wanted to let my father die of starvation. Just so you know, my father went peacefully........you on the other hand I pray for...............
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