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09-06-2010, 05:10 PM
An American couple were left pondering the nature of fate and fruit machine electronics last week when a "reset" slashed their jackpot from $11m to a more manageable $1627.82. MaryAnn and Jim McMahon had been shovelling their shrapnel into the fruit machine at the the Wildwood Casino in Cripple Creek, Colorado when they hit the jackpot. Sort of. An initial prize of $1,627.82 was shown, but then the somewhat schizophrenic machine flashed up the letters CURRENT before flipping up $11,600,600.01, then switching between the two figures. When the McMahons asked casino workers where they could collect their $11m, and presumably whether they could upgrade their hotel room, anxious staffers said the machine was clearly misbehaving and they'd have to take it apart.
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