If I may chime in from the Toronto area ...
I knew a few 'collectors' growing up and still know one or two in my adulthood. I've never heard of or seen violence against a wife or children.
HOWEVER... I have personally overheard the conversations wherein that bookie or collector will say something to the tune of "we know where your wife works and where your kids go to school" .... that's all they have to say ... there's no threat anywhere in that statement. HOWEVER to a person on the other end, it surely acts as an IMPLIED threat .. "pay up or .. well, we know where your mrs and the little ones hang out" ... the implied threat is made and the message is sent without (technically) a direct threat made.
So while I agree with one aspect of the debate above... that they don't target wives and kids, I also know enough that the wife and kids is brought up a scare tactic during collections to instill fear in the debtor.
Now .. NYMafia .. I enjoyed that piece in your first post above.. looking forward to reading the rest.
Cheers all and be safe.
Agreed. I don't doubt some frustrated shylock somewhere made an offhanded comment about abusing a guys family if he didn't pay. But 99.9% of the time even the biggest asshole shylock in the world wouldn't go through with something like that. But to shake a guy up, I could imagine those words being spoken somewhere.
I hope to have the gambling expose up soon. And my partner is designing KC expose as we speak. I think most of the forum will like them
