Comments on: And not a moment too soon

By: sewing

sewing — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:22:36 +0000

Sorry, his last post, not his last comment…on a by-election in South Jeolla for a seat formerly held by the Democratic Party.

By: sewing

sewing — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:19:38 +0000

It seems to be the Flying Yangban’s (Andy’s) poor luck. His last comment on a by-election only got three comments, one of which was from him. Help the poor guy out!

By: Zonath

Zonath — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:09:26 +0000

Here is the biggest story there is in Korea at the moment, and it gets 14 comments including this one.

Huh? Didn’t this story happen in Japan?

By: cm

cm — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 17:19:05 +0000

Here is the biggest story there is in Korea at the moment, and it gets 14 comments including this one. While you have couple of threads about english gate and they get over 100 comments in matter of hours.

By: Andy Jackson

Andy Jackson — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 06:42:46 +0000

JiMong,

This is why you need consistant enforcement of laws rather than these periodic crackdowns we have.

Either gambling is legal everywhere or it is not. If so, then these places need better regulating. If not, then these places should never have been allowed to open in the first place.

By: JiMong

JiMong — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:53:48 +0000

I was told by a Taxi Driver that “I finally realized that I live in a communist state” as he witnessed one of his friend’s “바다이야기” shop being seized by prosecutors.
His friend opened a “바다이야기” in outskirt of Seoul a month ago. His friend invested so much as he believed “바다이야기” is a legal gambling without any doubt and a winning lotto ticket.
Now, his friend just want to hang himself after his store being wipe out by law enforcement. Taxi driver also said “Where on earth can practice law in such an ignorant way? It could only happen in this country” He said the Law is just “코에 걸면 코걸이 귀에 걸면 귀걸이인 같은 법” while I paying 9,600 won fair.

By: sewing

sewing — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:17:37 +0000

Are incidents like the one in Japan occurring because minors aren’t allowed into pachinko parlours (are they)? Now, changing the law (if there is one) might just create new problems rather than merely solving the old ones….

By: Zonath

Zonath — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:11:25 +0000

Here in Oregon, there have been a few stories about parents leaving children (usually small babies) in the car ‘just for a few minutes’, and returning to find the car stolen. Of course, most of the cars were found pretty quickly (I guess not many car thieves want kidnapping on their resume), but it just goes to show — people who have children are often idiots who don’t deserve them. Children and small pets: If you want to see either alive again, don’t leave them unattended in a car.

By: sewing

sewing — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:14:51 +0000

It’s sad in all such cases. It’s sad to hear about the Japanese case, and the Canadian case, and any other such cases that occur. It seems our provincial governments here in Canada are relying too much on gambling revenue…but that’s a whole other discussion that’s way beyond the scope of this blog.

By: jd

jd — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 17:07:14 +0000

a few years ago i heard that the government-run casino in my hometown (in canada) had hired extra staff to walk around the massive parking lot to look for dogs and/or kids left behind in cars. sure, the heat is bad in the summer, but the real killer is the -30 C weather in the winter.

i used to work, all those years ago in canada, in a sandwich shop beside a bar. the bar had VLTs (video lottery terminals), and this one nice couple would drop their kids off at the shop and head over to the bar for some quick slots. the kids, we found out ’cause we asked them, had instructions to buy and share one cookie each hour. there were two of them, ages six and eight. after about three hours each time, the parents would come back and collect the kids.

this went on for a few weeks. then a co-worker, who admitted to me that his mother used to do roughly the same thing to him, threatened to call child and family services.

after that, i imagine, the parents just left the kids in the car in the parking lot.