Fruit Machine Chat

I call this Empty "Steal The Deal" whereby the 'player' (more like thief), gets bolt cutters and a truck and makes out he is an engineer. He then just swipes a few DOND units and fucks off to his hideout where his trusty drill awaits, he empties the machine, puts new locks on and, hey presto, he has now got a machine working for him which he can empty when he chooses!

If questioned, he can say he won the machine and decided to put it back in the service he stole it from because it 'felt out of place' at his home. If questioned about how he won it, he can say some bloke charged him a 10er for a coin flip and he won the fruit by guessing correctly and assumed it was that man's machine to give away.

Its not tooling, its not technically stealing, its more like borrowing thinking you won it... I can't see how you can get done for it! Its not deception, it might come under kidnap! But can you kidnap a non human object?






What a great empty! Thought it up all by myself!

Oh, and if you're going to talk about Datapaks, you simply disconnect it or replace it with your own if you really want to go to town!

Also, the machines don't 'belong' to the service station so it can't be classed as theft from them at any time! They love going on about how its not their machine when people are owed money from them so they can't say its theirs when you 'borrow' it!

That'll work.

always works for me but it works better on the 500's

Slight hitch is if the coppers turn up and do forensics on the things... it may be treated as theft of the monies within or an ongoing crime if they turn up after you've helped yourself to the next load of cash! Perhaps if you didn't steal the original money within and said you found the machine and brought it back and handed over the money that was within when you took it, that would work? But beyond that you're taking your own money technically as you have the keys to the locks! Of course, the machine company could fight back and put their own locks back on, that would piss you off! Also, there is the moral dilemma that you are using the service station's electricity to fund your theft! Perhaps a contribution such as buying lots of their overpriced crap would be justified to redress the balance?

what happens when someone else borrows the machine you just borrowed?

eddiesdad wrote:what happens when someone else borrows the machine you just borrowed?

Either fight them for it or borrow another one elsewhere!