I-892: a game of chance we should walk away from

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The camera fixes on a series of close shots: Hands dealing cards; hands nervously clicking and stacking poker chips, hands sweeping a pile of poker chips to one corner of a table after a win.
This is no ordinary film, no ordinary series of card games. The closer you look, the younger the hands appear. They are the hands of teenagers, mostly high-school juniors and seniors but also a few kids as young as 12.

In a high-quality homemade documentary, recent Shorewood High School grads Evan Turner and Nick Joy tell a story of teens whiling away the hours in game rooms and backyards of suburban Shoreline area homes playing card games. They tell about kids 16 and 17 years old using fake IDs to get into local casinos where the gambling age is supposedly 18 or older.

This cinéma vérité shows kids, some with braces and too baby-faced to shave, gambling and hooked on gambling.

At Shorewood High, next door to Parkers Casino, the local version of a nationwide teen gambling fad is on full display.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002049671_joni30.html

[AmandaRuth]

1. agree with you on this

one of the casinos was running ads proudly proclaiming that 18 year olds were wanted and welcome. I wish some of those focus on the family groups would stop with the gay marriage is destroying the family stuff and spend some time on this issue, which has far more negative effects on families than gay marriage will ever ever have.