Fruit Machine Chat

Ok i was in a pub the other night, 70 snakes 6 in it goes 3 bombs. 70... lanlord come over at this point iv got 40 left in the bank he turns the fruit off and says hes ringing the police.

I reply with ring the police i want my money. i wait in the pub for the police for an hour while hes looking for drilld holes in the machine ect lol. he then asks me what im doing i try telling him its legit hes saying no. i say look mate get a DOND and you wont have people coming in playing the fruit.

Police come and i serched got about 500 on me 350 of this in coins. got caution even no they didnt find anything, done a mad serch of the car ect. lanlord was saying when he rings the suplier there coming to look at machine and if they say it hasent been tamperd with i can get the £40.

Should i even bother trying to get the money?

Depends what sort of pub it is.

How much of a stupid cunt the bloke is he still seems fair tbh.

Tin of paint through his window at 4am.

Job done.

Name the pub, phone calls at all hours. Think we done this a few months ago.

More and more common now.

Part of the game.

Just bought another suit today, seems like the only way to avoid heat.

Suit, fake phone call from the office. 'Yep just havin a quick pint for lunch, be back in the office soon' etc etc.

Celebrate when u win, change coins back. Bit of food now and again.

Get away with it as long as possible.

thecannonball89 wrote:Ok i was in a pub the other night, 70 snakes 6 in it goes 3 bombs. 70... lanlord come over at this point iv got 40 left in the bank he turns the fruit off and says hes ringing the police.

I reply with ring the police i want my money. i wait in the pub for the police for an hour while hes looking for drilld holes in the machine ect lol. he then asks me what im doing i try telling him its legit hes saying no. i say look mate get a DOND and you wont have people coming in playing the fruit.

Police come and i serched got about 500 on me 350 of this in coins. got caution even no they didnt find anything, done a mad serch of the car ect. lanlord was saying when he rings the suplier there coming to look at machine and if they say it hasent been tamperd with i can get the £40.

Should i even bother trying to get the money?

Of course you should try and get the money, after all, you've done nothing wrong. Not turning up will make you look like a thief in their eyes. Going in for machines with 500 pounds on you is something i'd stop doing, especially if the pub is a toilet.

been done over and over for years this post...

being polite and not looking like you're selling drugs and screwdrivering the machines doors off...

but, in this situation, id have probably bottled the barman

Machine gets turned back on by me, immediately. I'm not tolerating that shit. £40 is £40.

Get the police to come with you to get the money!

BFK wrote:More and more common now.

Part of the game.

Just bought another suit today, seems like the only way to avoid heat.

Suit, fake phone call from the office. 'Yep just havin a quick pint for lunch, be back in the office soon' etc etc.

Celebrate when u win, change coins back. Bit of food now and again.

Get away with it as long as possible.

agreed , its defo the way forward ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, trouble is you cant celebrate the win more than once ,,,,,,,,,,,, in their eyes once is lucky , twice your tooling.

Few weeks back had a cluedo switched off on me, mid mega on a free board! Argue with them, called the engineers(alan davis) myself and still didn't get anywhere, engineer said it wasn't there problem landlady said it wasn't hers, I was told to inform the council. And the would maybe revoke there licence....like thats gonna happen....... Day after had a hi low switched off as i'm collecting my money out still with 30 to go, police called and everything. Engineers called out once again. Alan davis again same

Fella. Took one look at me and told the police he checked a machine I played yesterday but found nothing wrong with it, but as its happened twice in 24hrs I must be doing something illegal. Escorted from the pub searched. Told to go on my way and if anything comes up about machines in the near future they would be knocking at my door

I would have made the police turn the machine back on and take the £40. If there is a problem they'll know who I am and have their evidence of theft. Otherwise they'll give it back eventually.

If they refuse to take the cash, I'm reporting the landlord for theft, and if they wont listen to that, I'm making a complaint to the police complaints commision, with their specific badge numbers.

Had a simialr thing a while ago and was assured by police that I'll get any money due to me, funnily enough when the machine was OK'd by the company, there was no money in the bank. Shocker.

couple of my mates got strip searched when they changed up 200 quid in an arcade down cornwall way, the arcade called the police and they got nicked, one of them did have a refill key on them mind,its shocking out there.