High Stakes Rock Paper Scissors

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Dave & Chuck the Freak talk about a Canadian guy who lost over $500,000 in a high stakes Rock, Paper, Scissors game but is off the hook after a court ruled he doesn't have to pay.

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00:00those crazy canadians

00:08edmund mark hooper is the name of this canadian guy the unfortunate loser

00:15of the classic rock paper scissors hand game

00:19he made a five hundred thousand dollar bet

00:26was he even took out a mortgage what on his house to help pay for this

00:35this is such a canadian story happens all the time one of the saddest tales

00:40it's a real gambling addiction how many canadians have lost their shirt to rock paper scissors

00:48well dave 22 847 and still counting this is the uh rock paper scissors hotline hey how can we help

01:02yeah listen a whole outline for it listen hey i'm really i'm really feeding right now hey like i'm

01:07thinking of going on the street fighting like a kid or something and i can just be like hey

01:12rock paper scissors hey no hey don't do it hey no i'm gonna do it do it i'm gonna do it hey

01:18give me one good reason why i shouldn't listen there's so many other people rely on you hey

01:24i got no one hey okay then hey go do it okay all right thanks hey you want to do it on the phone

01:32sure okay here we go okay ready one two three ha scissors scissors two man oh tie it

01:41probably shouldn't do that again hey got a real rush from it oh i shouldn't i'm looking this hotline

01:48i shouldn't do that at all yeah no way that's real wrong i'm reformed i'm reformed i gotta get back

01:52one more time one more time one more time one two three oh you got me hey i owe you five hundred

02:02thousand dollars hey oh my god i'm destitute i have no money hey oh oh it burns hey oh god it burns me

02:11oh god i gotta go play some more it's that easy to fall into the trap it really is uh so this has

02:17actually been in the courts for a few years in 2017 uh superior court justice found rock paper

02:23scissors is not simply a game of luck they said in certain circumstances it calls upon the skill of

02:31the parties particularly in the speed of execution to put together so they're saying basically they

02:39upheld it saying listen hey we're sorry hey but you played rock paper scissors you gotta pay

02:44listen hey listen hey i knew what i was getting into

02:48i did the normal thing i went and mortgaged my house took my life savings found a guy named michael

02:58primo challenged him to rock paper scissors for 500 000 i lost it don't let this happen to you

03:06so even though that ruling came about uh court of appeal has ruled that he shouldn't have to pay

03:18that money wow i can't imagine in this united states that there'd be a come across a judge's desk

03:25we have here well that there's a scissors that's a rock paper scissors case you're looking at the game

03:32from when you were a kid yeah yeah it's uh 500 grand on the line this guy bet 500 grand yeah we

03:37got him figured out bits a bit it's a bit in america that's right yeah you're allowed to kill him

03:44shoot him shoot him in the face he didn't pay you dismissed dismissed dismissed yeah no uh so

03:56thankfully even though he did like he was paying it took out a mortgage ready to pay off the debt

04:01the courts have finally ruled that it's too excessive and it's invalid their best of three

04:07rock paper scissors half million dollar game he doesn't have to pay half a million

04:13not allowed to play anymore rock paper scissors that's yeah you gotta stop with the rock paper

04:20scissors but i just don't know how no thumb wars either but oh yeah don't even start i'll trick

04:31you in a thumb war oh i'll take you down us canadians know how to play thumb war and thumb war

04:37i was good with a sneak attack i would chuck a million dollars

04:42you knew it you knew what was happening oh my god whoever thought they'd need a rock paper scissors

04:50gambling but where do you find the matches where do you find the high stakes underground rock paper

04:57scissors game game you know you know how there's like the underground poker games yes exactly you know

05:06like they're high stakes underground you gotta have a secret knock and you go through like

05:11big doors and you get in there but it's like oh gee going

05:16scissors

05:19but they all would have like gambling names in the same way same way like slim and slick

05:28slim lost half a million dollars no way yeah hey rock paper scissors eh

05:35gotta keep crying today

05:37well thankfully for this guy anyway he doesn't have to get rid of his house and spend half a million

05:44dollars paying off his rock paper scissors debt oh it's the greatest day of his life finding out

05:49he didn't lose that much money playing rock paper scissors absolutely and the other guy's devastated

05:53yeah he made a lot of plans for that money he thought it was his

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