I mainly think it is because US law system allows things like these to go trough to the court. In Finnish system the Prosecutor would have laughed your ass out of hes office and charged you for wasting hes time.FelixG said:
We must be cautious >.>Super Toast said:
This is exactly what I thought. She has -zero- right to claim any personal damages from this, let alone that much. It sounds like she is suing them for the general practice of having these machines in their restaurants: unless her kids have played on every single machine in every Chuck E Cheese - and personally lost close to $5 million while playing on them - there is no reason for her to deserve compensation of that magnitude.Father Time said:
This makes much more sense. I still disagree with her though ? with intelligent parenting, kids can actually be taught about what is and is not a good idea and be educated through experience, rather than being relentlessly shielded from all the 'evils' of the world.JDKJ said:
At our local Chuck E. Cheese, you can also just buy stuff. Or give cash to make up the difference.Krion_Vark said:
I agree that trying to eliminate the problem is no kinda substitute for good parenting nor should it be any parent's first response. But I'm also inclined to agree that Chuck E. Cheese isn't the place for games of chance that pay "prizes." They should limit themselves to games of skill.Sprong said:
If I'm correct, the roulette wheel-like games at these locations are less like an actual roulette wheel at a casino (A game of chance), and are based more around the player's reflexes, which could be considered a form of skill. I remember that the arcade that my uncle used to work at has something vaguely resembling an electronic roulette wheel, though, like I've said, it's based around hitting a button at the right time. Said arcade is actually owned by Namco (To those of you who have played Pac-Man World 2: You remember the tokens? Yeah, the texture is based on the "tails" side of tokens from real-life Namco-owned Arcades), and they also give you tickets for playing games, as does Dave and Busters, so she might as well sue them as well. But, as people have pointed out, you usually get tickets no matter what, and the only way to increase your winnings is to have either A) enough skill to do well at the game or B) Fast enough reflexes to do well at the game.JDKJ said:
