I'm enjoying the car analogy, although the primary specific example I have does not deal with stealing of the car itself.
I once overheard a conversation that a car had been "broken into" and Christmas gifts stolen from it. The other end of the conversation was "was the car locked?", and the response was "well no, but..."
That occurred in a small town of 20,000, and about 30 years ago, where it was standard practice to leave a car unlocked, even with valuables in it, and reasonably expect no one to take anything. Certainly at that time no one living in a large city would have had that point of view, and probably nowhere in modern times.
Does the owner have a responsibility to lock their car? Yes. Does failing to do so make it OK for someone to take things out of the car? No. I'm expressing my personal opinions in the answers to these questions.
I know two people whose cars were stolen from private driveways where they were parked, unlocked, keys in the car, car running. I am of the opinion that the thefts were illegal, and I am also of the opinion that the owners should have taken reasonable precautions against the thefts and likely would not have been "crime victims" if they had not provided such an easy opportunity.
Bicycle thefts of unlocked bicycles fall into a similar situation. I feel like bicycles should be able to be left unattended and unlocked and be safe from theft, but I also think owners should lock their bikes to reduce the ease of theft.
We have had alarm systems on every home we've owned, and have had one or two break-ins initiated, but none actually resulting in entry - the alarm chased intruders away. In our first apartment, a four-unit townhouse, we installed floodlights on our corner of the building and a deadbolt lock on our front door. Every other unit in the building was broken into, but not ours.
In my opinion, the casinos need to make every possible effort to protect their games, and if they've taken reasonable precautions, should be able to go to the manufacturers for recourse if an error in construction / programming results in unanticipated losses -- unless the manufacturer has played the casino's game, by selling machines "subject to inspection by the owner and owner assurance of proper operation" or some such legal clause. The player may use strategies that work for the player.
Again, the specifics of the particular case may be so extreme as to create an exception -- I do tend to agree that getting an additional payout from a machine after a wager is completed and paid is probably over the line - certainly unethical, and illegality to be determined by how the law reads and is interpreted, and by the full facts of the particular case. I also agree that the casino needs to "lock" its "cars" to make theft more difficult.
While many / most of us might not take advantage of such an "opportunity" repeatedly, I wonder how many would report the very first time it happened if we stumbled onto it? A few have said they would do so, I think, but I do have to wonder.
--BG
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