Machine 'malfunction' sours player's win

PALM COAST -- Adam Hattani thought he was indeed lucky when a video game machine at Lucky Day Sweepstakes showed he had won $41,000.
But then the Palm Coast resident was told it was a malfunction, simply a crazed machine spitting out zeros.
Instead, Hattani was given $1,000 cash. But he said he should have received more, if not the entire $41,000.
"I told them it's not malfunction when you take people's money," Hattani said in an interview. "It's not malfunction if your machine is broken and keeps taking people's money. Oh, that's good for you. But when it comes out for people, to pay people the money, you don't want to pay me." Read Story