Storms in the United Stats pay 1 to 5 in several Internet sites
The boom of Internet gambling has reached amazing levels… People have had the possibility of gambling on the Pope’s health condition, the Italian presidential elections and the war in Iraq… But the Net will never give up surprising us, and now the last trend is gambling on hurricanes and the number of victims they will cause.
According to the information published today by Spanish portal NoticiasDot.com, several sites are offering probabilities of 1 to 5 if a level-3-storm goes through the US this year, which means that a 5-dollar-bet would only pay 1 dollar. Moreover, users can bet on hurricanes going through La Florida zone.
“The sad part of this is that people are gambling on things that affect seriously the life of other people”, said Greg Romano, from the National Weather Service, to the newspaper El Nuevo Herald. All this is happening while many people are getting ready for the hurricane season in the Atlantic, which will start 1st June.
The boom of Internet gambling has reached amazing levels… People have had the possibility of gambling on the Pope’s health condition, the Italian presidential elections and the war in Iraq… But the Net will never give up surprising us, and now the last trend is gambling on hurricanes and the number of victims they will cause.