# Packer Children Sue Terrorists - "You Put A Hole In Our Inheritance!"

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 26, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packer-children-sue-terrorists-you-put-a-hole-in-our-inheritance/83872 "2001-09-26T05:26:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packer-children-sue-terrorists-you-put-a-hole-in-our-inheritance/83872/1 "2001-09-26T05:26:32Z")

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Not really. But I had to laugh at this headline:

[Packer blows $60m while stuck in Las Vegas](http://news.ninemsn.com/world/story_19269.asp)

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> Australia’s richest man Kerry Packer blew $60 million in casinos after being stranded in Las Vegas by the World Trade Centre terrorist attacks, it was reported.

Apparently, stuck in LV with nothing to do, Kerry passed the time playing Baccarat at $AU300,000 a hand. The billionaire, who has survived 7 heart attacks, snacked on hot dogs between games.

How funny is that!

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**Author:** ![reprise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@reprise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/reprise)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packer-children-sue-terrorists-you-put-a-hole-in-our-inheritance/83872/2 "2001-09-26T05:59:55Z")

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I wonder if when he wins it back - as he so often seems to do - he’ll be making a sizeable donation to our fire service as he did to our ambulances a few years ago.

For all the flack KP cops about his high profile gambling, at least he’s gambling his **personal** millions and not those of the company (unlike some of our other entrepreneurs), and he can’t be accused of being stingy where charity is concerned. IIRC correctly, he donated $10 million to the Children’s Hospital a couple of years ago and made a huge donation to establish a renal research unit to one of the hospital this year.

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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packer-children-sue-terrorists-you-put-a-hole-in-our-inheritance/83872/3 "2001-09-26T06:26:38Z")

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Hey, if KP wants to gamble away $60mil of his own personal fortune, then more power to him, I say. I don’t think he’s such a bad guy - I remember that terrible “Dirtiest Home Videos” show that he ordered off the air halfway through!

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**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2001, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/packer-children-sue-terrorists-you-put-a-hole-in-our-inheritance/83872/4 "2001-09-26T13:41:16Z")

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All I could think of was “Onion headline!” 🙂