WOMAN DOESN'T WIN $43 MILLION FROM "MALFUNCTIONING" SLOT MACHINE

Katrina Bookman hit the jackpot on a slot machine at Resorts World Casino in Jamaica, New York, in late August. The machine told her she’d won $42.9 million. After celebrating amid other casino customers, she was escorted off the casino floor and told the machine had malfunctioned, and that she didn’t win anything. Katrina says the only thing the casino offered was a steak dinner. She’s hired a lawyer who thinks at the very least Katrina should win the maximum allowed on the Sphinx machine, which the casino says is $6,500. “The machine takes your money when you lose. It ought to pay it when you win,” said her lawyer. The state gaming commission says that, for all machines, “malfunctions void all pays and plays.”
* Malfunctions void all payments and when a customer wins, that is considered a malfunction.
* How about giving her the quarter back she spent on the bad spin? Is that too much to ask?
* Let her take a swing at the Sphinx machine with a sledgehammer?
* At this point, I’d take the free steak dinner.
* A lawyer vs. a casino. That’s like watching two sharks fighting.
* The takeaway here is – stick with the card games.
* She celebrated with other casino customers? If I won millions, I’d be too busy sneaking out the door before they jumped me.
* I doubt I’d even tell my own family.
* They always talk about a roller coaster of emotions, but thinking you’d won 42.9 million and then finding out it wasn’t true? Now that is a roller coaster of emotions.