Wednesday, February 23, 2005

Be fruitful and multiply

Do the Funny Fruit, Respin 7, and Fruitholder machines comply with Alabama's Chuck E. Cheese law?

Aside from the possibility that the name "Fruitholder" is as amusing to you as it is to me, you probably don't care. But the district attorney for the Bessemer Cutoff, a special division of the Jefferson County Circuit Court, does care. A lot. So much so that he's called on an out-of-state gaming expert to examine the three arcade machines in an effort to convince a court to declare them illegal gambling devices.

It'd be nice if we didn't waste public resources on trying to ban video games. Then again, if we didn't, I wouldn't get to read newspaper stories about things called Fruitholder.