Online Gambling Debt

[ll_billym]

I went to a link off the main online gambling story on the BBC web site where it claims the average online gambling debt in the UK is �25,000.

This sounds like a load of rubbish to me and there is no mention of how this crazy figure was arrived at. Can anyone out there shed any light on this?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5030486.st m

[ummmm]

Do you know any gambling addicts?

It doesn't sound like rubbish to me

[ll_billym]

Well quantify that figure for me then, that statement is in a paragraph on its own with no reference to anything except that 4 million people play each month. 4 million people at �25000 each makes �100 trillion and that is rubbish.

Does anybody actually know what that figure of an average of �25000 in debt actually means?

[ll_billym]

Sorry �100 billion but it's still more money than can be accounted for.

[brionon]

Of course it's nonsense.