Has anyone heard or seen this? Absolutely amazing and interesting. Basically, the scandal was that this guy figured out the pattern to the press your luck board, and took CBS to the cleaners. Anyhoo, they have a special on the Game Show Network (it's on now BTW) and other times that shows bit by bit how it was able to be done. Fantastically interesting. A must-see for anyone who was a fan of "Catch Me If You Can", or other things about sticking it ti authority figures. I just find it fascinating.
Of course he timed it, but he had to memorize five different patterns. Watch the scandal show, and try to time it like he does. It ain't easy.
I loved watching the old Press Your Luck show with my great grandma on the USA Network when I was little. The new "Whammy" show on GSN is pretty good, but just isn't the same. I like the concept of the Big Bank, though. It seems like people get a lot more Whammies. Also, recently I've realized that "Whammy" has to be the show where there is almost absolutely no skil, talent, or knowledge involved with winning. Sure, you have to answer a few questions to get the spins, but after that the board is TOTALLY random and you just have to hope you hit the right square.
Saddest part was that after this guy wins his money, he leaves his money, (40-50 thousand dollars) in one dollar bills in his home, and they are stolen by his ex-wife, who then takes his last $5,000 and leaves him. This is a better story than any soap opera I've seen.
According to Snopes, he lost all of his (prize) money within two years and became an assistant manager at a local Wal-Mart. Ouch.
Again, you just were told how he lost it that quickly. He apparantly also was chased by the feds and the IRS until he died of throat cancer. Either or, what he did to me is somewhat tantamount to Abignale, but that could be just me.
I don't know. Passing nearly $3 million in bad checks, getting people to believe you were a pilot, a doctor, a lawyer, etc. for an extended length of time and so on seems to be a little more complicated than memorizing a game board (even if there were five patterns) and collecting (in a very legal manner) $110,000 over the course of a few days. It's great that he figured out the trick to the game, but it's not all that amazing an accomplishment.
While I agree that what Abignale did was far superior to what this guy did, they both did beat "the system". If you can't appreciate it, that's fine. However, I simply like stories like this.
Fatty, Are you trying to tell us that you want to get on a game show and figure out how to beat "the system" like dude? If that is what you want to do, make sure that you stop off in League City and get some helping of Behad's BBQ!
I watched something about that awhile back, funny thing is u know how they interviewed his brother, well he taught at my school for years until he retired just last year. Guy was grumpy as hell.
When I read this, it sounds as if the post was supposed to have a 'flamingly gay' accent to it with the addition of the . Whenever is used, it always seems to add a gay vibe to it. Upon my request, can the color of the be changed to hot pink?
