Is Winning on a Faulty Slot Machine a Crime?!?
An AP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Prosecutors are considering criminal charges against casino gamblers who won big on a slot machine that had been installed with faulty software.More here.
The machine at Caesars Indiana credited gamblers $10 for each dollar they inserted because the software wasn't designed for U.S. currency, state police said. More than two dozen people played the machine before one gambler alerted Caesars employees.
Caesars lost $487,000 on the machine during that time, state police said.
A decision on whether to bring criminal charges could come in a couple of weeks, said John Colin, chief deputy prosecutor for Harrison County. He said "criminal intent" may be involved when people play a machine they know is faulty.
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posted by Fergie @ 7/20/2007 05:06:00 PM
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