Woman Suing Chuck E. Cheese's for Promoting Childhood Gambling

[TheAngryMonkey]

I don't think she should be suing for money in this case.

That's it.

I also happen to think that she's right.

Blackjack isn't purely a game of chance. It has heavy elements of luck involved, but the difference between a skilled player and a novice player is the difference between a player who busts and a player who manages to sit just under 21.

It's even more substantial in Poker: It's not just about the cards you're dealt, but the psychology you employ against your opponents, and the psychology they employ against you.

Both are still gambling.

So the claim that this is rubbish because they aren't pure chance is fallacious.

it's not gambling when you get tickets or prizes.

Yes it is.

Real-estate not doing so well, eh Keller.
Wow, I think she ate the whole bowl of crazy.
I feel sorry for her kids.
And what does she take them to Chuck-E every night, I think I have been 3 times in my entire life.
What a wackjob.

I love how you've taken completely irrelevant facts about the case and made hyperbolic and unsubstantiated claims about her lifestyle to support your thesis. Well done sir/Madam.

Yessire. And let us not forget. Hot coffee IS INDEED hot.

http://www.lectlaw.com/files/cur78.htm There's more to that story than you're aware of. A lot more.

This is what I don't get, if the money isn't the issue why sue for 5 million?

I'm going to propose that suing a company and then winning that suit tends to have more immediate consequences than a deliberation spanning a great deal of time that wants to take a serious look at whether the machines found in children's entertainment centers are promoting Gambling. I wouldn't know whether the woman/lawyer were thinking this or not, it's just a proposition. But I can't help but think that her winning the suit would cause many other places similar to CeCs to change their own policies.

Woman Suing Chuck E. Cheese's for Promoting Childhood Gambling

Sorry... I need to make a correction here:

Woman Suing Chuck E. Cheese's because she's a bad parent and can't control her child so she decides to push the blame onto a major company like all other bad parents.

Fixed.

Remember the time some kid's mother got mad at Microsoft after her kid spent £1082 on Xbox Live?

Yup! Same thing. Mother, sues company, can't be a good parent, etc.

It's not the same thing. It's deplorable that she's trying to seek damages from the case, but that's it. Microsoft had a reasonably secure system of transactions that was neglected by the user. CeCs has what clearly here has been interpreted as questionable activities ingrained in its very core.

Real-estate not doing so well, eh Keller?
Think she ate, the whole bowl of crazy?
I feel sorry for her kids.
Does she take them to Chuck-E every night?
I think I have been 3 times in my entire life.
I believe she is a wackjob.

Is that better for you madam/senior.

You becoming a defense lawyer?

Bottom line it's a cash grab, their is no high moral ground here.

If it was really about morality, and "Save the Children."

The suite, would be about removing said machines in question from Chuck-E locations and recuperation of legal fees.

But then only the lawyer gets paid.