mother suing Chuck E. Cheese Pizza for $5 million for making kids gambling addicts

https://theweek.com/article/index/215383/is-chuck-e-cheese-creating-tiny-gambling-addicts


I grew up in a time where I can remember attending many a birthday party as a kid at Chuckecheese and showbiz pizza type places...  Those creepy fur covered mechanical singing robots with at least one of them malfunctioning...

I think played alot of video games and did not necessarily spend alot of tokens on the games that gave tickets becasue the prizes sucked... and most prizes that were good were too many tickets...

Skiball was a game of skill, so was the gophers game that you wacked them on the head.. the frog game where the ball goes round and round on the ramp  and into its mouth was automatic tickets...

I could see some case on the game with the lights that round and round if it were random like roulette,  but then you get to control where ti stops by pressing a button...it  was always tricky that it changes direction when you start playing tho...

But for this mother to say that is promotes gambling to kids and want 5million for herself is ridiculous... Perhaps the games have changed, but I cant think of any games like video slots or poker that utilize random number generator technology...

Do any of you degenerate gamblers blame growing up with these pizza places for being gambling addicts?

Yet this mom is the "hero of parents everywhere"

Perhaps they are guilty of games of skill that are too hard for kids so they keep spending money to get crappy prizes, but then doesnt that sum up the the games at every carnival?

Why not sue them too?  and why not sue MLB,NBA,and NFL for marketing to children why you are at it for making us sports gambling degenerates...

I still believe the sue me sue you ball got rolling with the bimbo and Mcdonalds coffee. It opened up the flood gates.

Don't forget the tobacco companies.

And i've been smoking for like a hunnerd years and did'nt get a thin dime. shit

Definetly some odd people out there.

im still amazed everytime someone says something like this about this case

lets recap, mcds was using a cheap coffee bean, in order to make the aroma better, they heated it way beyond normal, apparently even shitty beans smell good at high temps.

the grandma spilled the coffee on herself and received THIRD DEGREE BURNS, on her vagina no less.  she initially only asked mcds for money to cover he medical bills, mcds told her to go f herself, she sued and won.  the amount the jury awarded was the daily sales of coffee for mcds world or nationwide.  the whole point of awarding a judgment is to make it punitive enough for the perpetrator to not do it again.

so i guess if you ever get THIRD DEGREE burns from something that should otherwise be safe, you arent going to sue???   please.  you make it seem like she sued bc her shirt got stained when she spilled the coffee and sued for millions.

Does anyone really take the state of California seriously? I sure as hell don't.

another thing people don't understand about that story is the woman didn't end up getting very much money.  that case was the best thing that ever happened to insurance companies.  ever since, they cry about being sued and tort refiorm and raise the shit out of their rates all the while they make record profits and the ignorant public still feels sorry for them because they think people are suing everyone and getting all this money. 

the lesson, as always, is people are stupid and big businesses take advantage. 

i got drunk last night on budweiser and ran over my neighbors cat in my golf cart and killed it...i am now working with my attorney to sue anheuser-busch...wasn'y my damn fault  

I don't think the many hours I spent playing "Asteroids" had anything to do with my current wagering habits. 

This is a great post. Anyone who TOOK the time to read the McDonalds coffee lawsuit realized that this lady really was severely injured. You're not gonna get third degree burns from normally heated coffee. Other people got burned drinking coffee at this McDonalds but never complained. It was McDonalds fuck-off attitude towards this lady which resulted in her being awarded so much money. She never sought to receive as much as she did-but the amount was awarded as a way to punish Mcdonalds for their attitude in the situation.

The thing about the McDonald's case is they handled it about as poor as any big corporation could...When I first heard the story, I thought this 79 year old lady who spilled the coffee on herself was just a product of old age and "shit happens."  But as I read more into the case, she only originally wanted 20g's from Ronald to cover medical bills(past and future)  Only after McDonalds refused to pay anything other than 800 dollars is when she decided to sue..And they still wouldn't accept any blame even after it showed they were freakin boiling the coffee.  They figured they should make it super hot to keep it that way as people commute and then drink it once they get to work...

So the jury found Micky D's 80% at fault and this oldie 20%, pretty reasonable IMO..I think they said she ended up settling for somewhere in the ballpark of 480K or so..Screw McDonald's, they knew what they were doing, and they made it worse by not giving the lady the 20K in the first place and this would have never made national news, or a case of reference for that matter...

I actually think the woman was/is a gambler who lost her retirement on video poker/slots...  So she is angry at casinos/gambling and at the
 same time trying to get money back through a law suit...  It is just another form of being down and trying to "chase"

The mcdonald's lawsuit is an interesting issue because of liability and personal responsibility.  If an MCD employee were to have spilt the coffee on her, that is one thing... but she  split it on herself... It would be like buying a chainsaw at home depot and then suing them for when you had an accident...

Im thinking that chuckechesse is going to tell this women to screw off, but if we look at the MCdonalds case they might be better served settling at a lower amount...

I think they should give her $10k...  all in chuck-e-cheese tokens...

Thank ya buddy, now i'm a little more educated on the matter.Let me ask you, do you think that her age and region where it was spilled made it a little more damaging?Do you think that all the other similar hot coffee,tea, coco etc spill suits that have been dismissed were wrong,remember similar now.Look i'm no shill for big money or ins. companies. I do think they should have been more clear with warning about how hot the coffee is, though it probably will not stop us from spilling coffee on ourselfes.Personally i like my coffee hot , that way it last longer.

They should give her all the prizes from one Chuck E Cheese. It would only cost them about 8 bucks!

[Quote: Originally Posted by Biscuiteater

When I went to Chuck E. Cheese as a kid, I don't even remember playing "ticket" games.  There was actually fun arcade games to play back then.  Nowadays all they have are ticket games, very few games there are just for entertainment

I played a ton of "Whack-a-mole" as a kid...maybe that's why I whack off so much. Think I have a case??

 

This is what desperate people resort to in a shitty economy. OH YES WE CAN! 

I'm with you amp, the ticket games all sucked, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game was where it was at. 

i used to be a carny when i was 18.  crazy ass job.  got people to play risky games like the small basketball rim etc..  always let the retarded kids win after a few tries..(yes i said retarded, i dont know how that became some bad word).
chuck e cheese knows, hook the buggers when young.  thank goodness they sell daddy's little helper at the beverage counter.

Don't forget about X-men and the Simpsons games