In the chaos, she took a couple of pictures. He said 'Don't touch the machine,'' said Carmin. So I saw the numbers, heard 'supervisor!' and within 30 seconds a gentlemen approached me from the casino. All I heard and saw, she started screaming 'supervisor!' at the top of her lungs.
It just didn't click and then somebody stood behind me and they - she - they kept saying you won, you won 28.9 million and then that's when I looked and that's a lot of commas,' said Carmin. 'I think I was still in shock and I said 2,800 28,000. Jennifer Carmin, who owns a small ad agency in Hobart, Indiana, saw ten numbers and a dollar sign.ĪBC7's Chuck Goudie asks: 'Did you know what those numbers meant?' I inserted it into the machine and within 5 minutes um I think I was in shock,' said Jennifer Carmin, casino customer. She says it happened inside the Blue Chip on January 11, at a penny slot machine like this called 'China Shores.'
Imagine feeling as though you are a multi-millionaire- surrounded by well-wishers- and then being told something must have gone haywire in the slot machine, and it was out of order.īlue Chip Casino in Michigan City says a software glitch cause a colossal dollar amount to flash on the slot screen, just after a northwest Indiana woman sat down to play.