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Proof that casinos are run by criminals.

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Soul Sojourner:

--- Quote ---          Entering the casino, one is beset at every side by invitation -- invitations such as that it would take a man of stone, heartless, mindless, and curiously devoid of avarice, to decline them. Listen: a machine-gun rattle of silver coins as they rumble and spurt down into a slot machine try and overflow by the monogrammed carpets is replaced by the siren clanger of the slots, the jangling, blippeting chorus swallowed by the huge room, muted to a comforting background chatter by the time  one reaches the card tables, the distant sounds only loud enough to keep the adrenaline flowing through the gambler's veins.
          There is a secret that the casinos possess, a secret they hold and guard and prize, the holiest of there mysteries. For most people do not gamble to win money, after all, although that is what is advertised, sold, and claimed, and dreamed. But that is merely the easy lie that gets them through the enormous, ever-open, welcoming doors.
          The secret is this: people gamble to lose money. They come to the casinos for the money in which they feel alive, to ride the spinning wheel and turn with the cards and lose themselves, with the coins, in the slots. They may brag about the nights they won, the money they took from the casino, but they treasure, secretly treasure, the times they lost. It's a sacrifice, of sorts.

-- Neil Gaiman, American Gods p281-282

Showing that these people are obviously insane for not just giving it back like they should.
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Penis.

Meclar:
As far as I'm concerned triumph for the people.

Then again if a soda machine spit out a bunch of sodas or the machine spewed out of the coin return....I think I just might take it.

Once when I was a teenager an ATM gave me an extra 20 bucks.  My dad made me return it. Eight years later I over draw on an account and fortunately I have a savings account that further funds will be deducted until I can balance out the account that was overdrawn.
The bank charges 90 dollars for an over drawn fee...

Las Vegas or casinos aren't made on winners...well give these few people a good day.

Oh faulty machines? What about the amount of money casinos make off faulty people?

How about coming to a compromise and have the people DONATE the money to charity?

It's like smokers suing tobacco companies but in reverse.  Why would a casino take legal action against its customers for doing what the company solicits?

It's not stated in the article but were those who came forward rewarded to enforce honesty or do people know better now and will stay silent when malfunctions occur?
I'm not advocating positive re-enforcement for good moral behavior but from the casinos stand point it would be good business.

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