A player on an unnamed online poker site gave new meaning the concept ‘sore loser’ after he threatened bloody carnage in an email sent to the site’s head office. The man, from the UK, lost nearly $30,000 playing at the poker room between June 2010 and May 2011, and he eventually went beserk over the losses. The man sent an email to the Isle of Man head office, threatening to come after the workers with a shotgun unless they paid him out his losses. Despite sending the site a letter of apology the following day, saying that he was drunk at the time of writing it, the poker site decided to take the matter up with the police and Michael Gallagher was arrested. He is currently out on bail and will be sentenced for blackmail and violent threats next month.
At school, a boy was told by a classmate that most adults are hiding at least one dark secret, and that this makes it very easy to blackmail them by saying, “I know the whole truth”. The boy decides to go home and try it out. He goes home, and as he is greeted by his mother he says, “I know the whole truth.” His mother quickly hands him a $50 note and says, “Just don’t tell your father.
“Quite pleased, the boy waits for his father to get home from work, and greets him with, “I know the whole truth.” The father also promptly hands him a $50 note and says, “Please don’t say a word to your mother.”
Very pleased, the boy is on his way to school the next day, when he sees the mailman at his front door. The boy greets him by saying, “I know the whole truth.” The mailman drops the mail, opens his arms, and says, “Then come give your FATHER a big hug.”
