Posted on 10/01/2017 1:13:57 PM PDT by Textide
The cards are always stacked in favor of the casino. Casinos exist for one reason, and one reason alone: to take your money. They do it legally, even if it's under cloudy circumstances.
Sorry ma‘am, you didn’t win $43M—there was a slot machine “malfunction” Consider the case of an Alabama man who put $5 into an electronic bingo machine at the Wind Creek Casino in Montgomery, Alabama. The casino is on tribal land operated by the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. To the gambler's amazement, "several noises, lights, and sirens were activated" when the machine announced that Jerry Rape had hit The Big One. The bingo machine indicated a jackpot of $459,000, then $918,000, and finally settled on a "payout multiplier" of $1,377,000, according to the gambler's lawsuit.
The casino took Rape's payout ticket and made him wait for about 24 hours before saying no dice. He wasn't getting the monster payout. The machine, he was told by the tribe's casino, had "malfunctioned."
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Happened to me at a Casino in Mississippi. Bells, whistles, then “so sorry” you didn’t win anything, machine malfunction. Haven’t been back since.
Indians are allowed to make and enforce their own laws. They are a “sovereign” nation within this sovereign nation. That is impossible. There cannot be a sovereign nation inside of another. But there are and we cannot change it, so tough teepees, you don’t get the money.
Yeah, I’ve experienced that. I filled up once at one of those places and my car ran like crap and got horrible gas mileage until all that gas had run through it. I was worried about permanent damage. It was 30,000 miles ago and everything seems OK. The terrible gas mileage was fine, I wanted that crap out of my gas tank faster. On the east side of Glacier National Park, it’s indian reservation. Manage your fuel consumption so that you don’t have to buy gas there!
That’s my rule with Vegas, too. I stopped off the interstate to get gas once in Vegas and the neighborhood was downright frightening. Even worse, the on-ramp was closed so I had to go a few miles through an even worse neighborhood to get back on. It was weird. There were all of these really expensive houses with steel gates, spikes on top, prominent security cameras, and a lot of them had private security patrolling. It was like being in a drug cartel area in South America. At stop lights, people with dead eyes were walking down the rows of stopped cars begging. I had my 10 year old daughter with me. All windows were rolled up (I locked out the controls so that only I could control them) and I told my daughter to just look down at her book and pay attention to nothing outside. That was my 2nd time in Vegas and there won’t be a 3rd, the place is downright scary.
Then we must also assume there are malfunctions where you should have won but didn't. That ratio must be much higher than the payout that was a malfunction.
That's why I suggest that a winner who was told it's a malfunction should start a class action lawsuit claiming that the casino owes players for wins that malfunctioned as losses.
The class should be anyone who can prove they played at the casino. Probably people who played with club member cards.
Make the casino pay either way. I bet the false loss malfunction would be much greater than the false win malfunction.
-PJ
>That’s my rule with Vegas, too. I stopped off the interstate to get gas once in Vegas and the neighborhood was downright frightening.
The wonders of diversity and multiculturalism.
See you in court,casino!
And the odds of the casino claiming it was a “malfunction” and refusing to pay are 100%.
But then you would have to sue in tribal court which would dismiss the suit and tell you to get bent.
Malfuntioned? More likely was hacked by Russians.
I never quite understand the legal status of Indian reservations.......They are a part of the USA, but sovereign unto themselves.
How is it possible that someone with the name “Rape” didn’t change it ten generations ago?
Yep, the machine is working perfectly when the machine takes your money.
Interestingly, the Casino Boss never walks up to you and says “You remember that $250.00 you dumped in that slot machine and won nothing? Well, guess what, the slot machine malfunctioned and you really won twenty million dollars!”
All of the machines are controlled electronically. The only way an ordinary person wins a super jackpot at an Indian casino is if there is a malfunction. Because they are programmed to take your money.
If you are playing for other than entertainment, then you deserve what happens to you.
“That’s my rule with Vegas, too.”
Driving thru Nevada to CA once we stopped in Vegas for gas. Some local “Pay-n-Go” type chain right next to the freeway. Went in paid the guy cash for the gas. Went out and pumped it. Got in the car and got back on the freeway. Looked down about 20 minutes later and was almost on E. Fortunately we made it to the next gas station.
Well now they are going to have to give him an even bigger payout.
Casinos don't 'take' people's money. People give it them.
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This is bs. Every win from these things the casino says is a malfunction. Every one I have ever seen in the last 5 years of postings of these stories. They cannot all be malfunctions.
If the casino says its a malfunction because a customer wins, which apparently is the criteria, the games are fraud because its an admission these machines are set up to never pay out.
I've said that for years. It's time to eliminate all race based preferences and privileges.
I never owned a slave and never shot an Indian and refuse to feel guilty about what my ancestors might have done 150 years ago.
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