Pressed His Luck

Sooga · #1 08-29-2005, 05:21 PM

Not sure if this has been posted recently, as it's an old article, but I thought it was hilarious.

Press Your Luck

jokerthief · #2 08-29-2005, 05:29 PM

I saw that episode. [censored] nuts! Pretty smart to figure that out.

2+2 wannabe · #3 08-29-2005, 05:35 PM

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I saw that episode. [censored] nuts! Pretty smart to figure that out.

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they showed the episode?

PoBoy321 · #4 08-29-2005, 05:35 PM

I heard they were planning to do a movie about this guy with Bill Murray a few years ago, I guess it never went through.

jokerthief · #5 08-29-2005, 05:39 PM

Yeah, gameshow network did a special on it, then they showed the actual episode. It was hilarious.

Voltron87 · #6 08-29-2005, 05:39 PM

haha, cool page. so he eventually had to take a genuine chance that he might hit a whammy, and beat it?

swede123 · #7 08-29-2005, 05:41 PM

Wow, what a crazy story. Americans and their game shows.

Swede

krazyace5 · #8 08-29-2005, 05:45 PM

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Larsen took an interest in a local radio station contest. They were giving away a $30,000 jackpot to anyone who could produce "consecutive serial numbers" on two pieces of American currency.

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Was this hard to come by in the 80's? Because it is easy as hell to get now.

trying2learn · #9 08-29-2005, 05:59 PM

i love that story...i didn't know that he kept trying to, "get rich quick" though...funny stuff.

ddubois · #10 08-29-2005, 06:48 PM

Holy cow. I had read the story of this on snopes, but this site has way more detail. It's really sad to hear about how he blew the money too. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]