NBC – A San Diego woman is suing the company that owns Chuck E Cheese. Denise Keller claims many of the games intended for children are actually illegal gambling devices and can be addicting. According to court documents, Keller is asking for a jury trial and restitution of at least $5 million dollars. In her complaint, Keller says the arcade games are like slot machines because you insert tokens, and get tickets for prizes when you win. Attorneys for the company responded saying the games are not illegal under state law. They have filed a motion asking a federal judge to dismiss the case. Keller, a mother of two girls aged 3 and 5, said she has taken the kids to the restaurant’s location in La Mesa’s Grossmont Center on numerous occasions.
We’ve posted articles in the past about fights/brawls/arrests at Chuck E. Cheese. As a matter of fact, it’s become such a common occurrence that it doesn’t even phase me anymore. For example, if you google “Chuck E Cheese fight” or “Chuck E. Cheese arrest”, you’re bound to find a story or two from the past few weeks (most recent I just saw was “fight over Chuck E Cheese parking spot leads to murder” on May 6th.) Cool bro. Chuck E. Cheese – where a kid can be a kid. And parents can be the dumbest a$$holes ever.
Anyways, this Mom is suing Chuck E. claiming it’s illegal gambling and the games are addictive. 1) If she’s going after them, she’ll have to go after Dave and Buster’s as well, and not to mention all of the state fairs, traveling carnivals, etc that all have skeeball and the ensuing prizes. Redic. 2) No sh!t games like skeeball are addicting – I could have spent hours playing skeeball, pop a shot, shoot the clown’s teeth out, water gun race the boat to the top, etc etc etc when I was a kid. It’s like crack cocaine for the pre-teen crowd, and if you’re good (like I was obviously) you get to cash in those tickets for troll dolls, Chicago Bulls t-shirts, boomboxes, etc. (Chinese finger traps, pencils, slap bracelets, erasers, army dudes, fake tattoos, and the such were for the chumps. If you were cashing in tickets for the cheap prizes, you obviously had no skills at skeeball or pop-a-shot).
Long story short, F this lady. I’m convinced she’s one of those folks that sits around all day trying to think who/what she could sue to make a few mill. She probably ended up at one of her kids friend’s birthday parties there and was having some stale cake and melted ice cream and was like “Hey, thi$ i$ gambling! I $hould $ue the pant$ off Chuck E. Chee$e’$!” Unreal.
PS Anyone above the age of 14 that doesn’t hand all of their tickets to a little kid at the end of the day is a total scumbag. End of story.
