Intro: Rob Jenkins is a 32-year-old plumber in Bangor, Maine. Like most people, he lived a fairly simple life. He worked during the day and came home to spend time with his loving wife each night. Recently, he lost his 27-year-old wife after a long fight with breast cancer. Upset, depressed and struggling to contain his grief, he did his best to regain his sense of normalcy. For Jenkins, normalcy and solace would become impossible. While Rob Jenkins was out shopping one day, he left his mobile phone in the car. The phone was stolen while he was in the store, and all of his memories of his wife disappeared with it. Jenkins could not believe that someone would want to steal his phone and take the last photographs of his wife. After the event, …show more content…
When he got over his devastation about his phone, Rob realized that some of his credit cards were taken from the glove box as well. After taking a moment to breath and calm down, he managed to call his bank and block his accounts. For a few days, nothing happened. Rob Jenkins continued to go to work each day and come home to an empty house at night. A few days later, he received a call from a bank representative. According to her, someone had tried to make a withdrawal from the account. Even better, the bank representative said that there was footage of this person coming into the bank. - Insert the picture of the thief trying to get cash from the ATM. Rob needed to make sure that his bank account were untouched. He was surprised to find that his bank account had increased by $400,000. Shocked, Rob Jenkins quickly flipped through his bills to look at the bank statement. An online casino had wired them the …show more content…
“I could not believe my luck,” he grinned. “I was lonely, bored and tired of life without my wife. Without really thinking about it, I started playing an online casino game on my mobile device. I started with 80 free spins, and I had only used about 40 of them when the phone was stolen. The robber must have used the remaining 40 spins to keep playing on my free account. While I won just $240 with my first 40 free spins, he won big. It looks like karma pays off. He stole my phone, won $400,000 and he will never get to have the money.” Rob only started playing online to help stave off the grief and challenging thoughts. What he gained was far more than a few moments of relaxation. Without doing anything, Rob made $400,000. Best of all, his phone was returned. A few weeks after the original theft, the phone arrived in the mail without any return address attached. Now, Rob could enjoy the photos of his wife and retire early. - Insert a picture of Rob and his
Mark worried about his cousin considering that her son and husband had abusive tendencies and contacted the authorities. Officers checked the house twice and both times a note was on the front door of the house claiming the family was away. The police returned a third day and forced their way in. The police found the bodies of Randy and Karen Ringquist frozen in the freezer Jeremy had purchased to hide the smell of decay. Mark told the paper; “Karen and her husband didn’t get along. He was abusive to her. And then their son moved in and he was also abusive. He’s a 300 pound kid.” He continued with; “Her life was miserable and I tried to tell her to get out. I said ‘You’ve got to get out of there,’ but she said she had no money and no place to go. There’s no relatives close. I’m probably her closest
The Minneapolis based Target Corporation announced in December that criminals forced their way into the company’s computer system. The data breach compromised 40 million credit and debit card accounts of customers who shopped during the holiday season between November 27 and December 15, 2013. The data captured was far broader than originally imagined as hackers gained access to 70 million customer’s personal information including names, home addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses. Additionally, expiration dates, debit-card PIN numbers, and the embedded code on the magnetic strip of the card were stolen.
The casino kept offering different things and after this she was unable to refuse. She was offered anything she wanted, the casino would negotiate any request. At one point Bachmann had walked away from all the gambling, but soon after her parents passed away she returned to the casino and there she was seduced into coming back. After her inheritance, she had told Harrah’s that she was almost out of money, but they told her to come anyway. The casino told her, they would give her a line of credit to start off with. Bachmann ended up borrowing a total of about $125,000. Bachmann eventually lost everything she and her family had, including their family home. Bachmann tried to win back the money she was losing but she wasn't able to. Bachmann wasn't able to repay the money back to the casino and the casino then sued her. Bachmann was then found guilty for her gambling habit. You see if the casino wouldn’t have encouraged Bachmann to continue gambling and offer her money to play it, perhaps she wouldn’t have lost all that she owned. The casino kept seducing her to come in, making it impossible for her to refuse. Bachmann was enjoying all the perks her gambling addiction was able to get
money back and a little lecture on not to gamble any more. By this he made a
Mike is trying to decide to whether or not to keep the phone. He talks to him self saying the pros and cons of having and not having the phone. Mike arguing with himself does not realize that he is close to the staircase. Mike as he picks up his ball representing sports weighs them next to each other seeing which one is important. All of a sudden Mike accidentally drops the phone down the stairs. The slow motion shot shows how caring Mike is of the phone. The phone does not turn on and Mike is livid. Mike later throws the phone to the side of his room. Mike improves in all his sports he becomes more active he breaks the record for track. he regains all of his scholarships back. His friends can't keep up with him in running and he is oath gives him another award for best runner. Mike goes back to where he threw the phone and picks it up and says you are the worst thing that ever happened to me. throws it to the side because his friends are calling his. The phone then turns on by it's
Narrative research is a qualitative methodological approach in research (Bedford & Landry, 2010. Since the early 1980s, narrative inquiry has been emerging in regards to individual life stories. Storytelling is closely related to psychoanalytic tradition. Narrative research, consist of a multiple of approaches, that are apart of social constructionism, which is guided by the philosophical assumptions of an interpretive constructivist paradigm (Patsiopoulos & Buchanan, 2011). Through this qualitative method researchers are able to explore and obtain an understanding about individuals through specific data gathered through interviews.
When you get a car stolen you expect it to be a crime. You expect your car to be torn up, trashed, run down, and problems with it, that was not this case though.
In his book “Bringing Down The House”, Ben Mezrich tells the true story of six M.I.T. students who secretly learned how to count cards in the popular Vegas game Blackjack. He exposes how the previously oblivious nature of casinos gradually shifted to that of paranoia because of card counters like these students. Mezrich’s story focuses on Kevin Lewis, an Asian-American student at M.I.T., who gets dragged into living a double life involving millions of dollars. Kevin experiences the all time highs and lows of gambling while managing to keep it a secret from his close friends and family. Throughout his thrilling experience Kevin comes to recognize the dangers of what he has gotten himself into, and wonders
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Her husband had to have surgery to remove prostate stones. Ann’s last husband died of from lymph cancer fifteen years prior. This procedure caused a lot of anxiety for Ann. On the day of the surgery she took a lot of busy work to keep herself preoccupied but instead she had many irrational thoughts. She thought her husband might have cancer, that her son would have to grow up without a father, and she was angry that she was in the situation to begin with.
He rarely had time off from work, so he was trying to do all of the household chores in one day. While he was taking a break from the chores, he got online to send Maria a Facebook message. As he was logging out, he noticed an advertisement for an online casino. For a small deposit, he could get 100 free spins. It seemed like a good deal, so Mike tried his luck.
Amy uses a holistic approach while looking at Emilio’s well-being, by acknowledging the impact that grief would have on Emilio’s overall health, she uses critical thinking and analysis to address his emotional and physical needs by providing information about local community support that is relevant to Emilio’s individual
The first witness I spoke to was Ms. Kristina R. Harmon (DOB 12/14/1990). She advised that she is a teller and the bank and she was held at gunpoint. She advised that there are surveillance cameras all over the bank and led she led me to the security room. While speaking with Ms. Harmon, the four backup units and canine arrived on
The Voice: Well, Mrs. Dryer, I go to a very competitive school. I have to take competitive classes. It's not as though the work load would go down if I dropped to a lower level. I had a very busy week, and the play just started. I'll have more time this week. I promise to practice more between now and next lesson.
Imagine if you are so excited that your husband died and he walks in your front door,how would you feel? Bad, just like how Mrs. Mallard felt when she saw her husband walk through, she died instantly. In this story Mrs.Mallard’s husband died. At first, she was sorta sad but then she realized she now had a life of her own.