That is the height of it. I can't emagine how someone would go this far to the extent of kidnaping his own grand daughter all because he want his son in-law to pay a ransom of $72k to pay off his gambling loan. That is the reason why we keep on talking about gambling addiction and how it affects us in somany ways. Come to think of it how can a man of 65 years will still be playing gamble at his age? Like I always said gambling could be fun and can change someone's financial status but not what we can take to another dimension.
When I head this story, I wasn't surprised at all, I asked myself, if someone can go as far as taking his own life as a result of gambling addiction then is there a length people cannot go? I've seen even worst cases. This is why people should be very mindful of gambling, especially when you know that you have a very poor self control, because sometimes it's not even about the effects and pains it brings to the victim, it's sometimes mostly about the effect on the people closest to the victim. Just imagine the emotional tension and the pressure he must've put the family through because of this single act which he would've avoided if only he had a little bit more of self-control.
As long as it is gambling addiction, nothing is surprising because a gambling addict is like drug addict that can go any length to satisfy that urge. The stories of gambling addicts are just too numerous and most of them are never shared. There was a time that robbery increased in my neighborhood. Eventually some of the arm robbers were caught and to our greatest surprised, almost all of them were people who spend most of their time in the gambling shops. This shows that the money they steal still goes back into gambling.