FIRE

Mr McStreak · Post by **Mr McStreak** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 12:55 am

maverick69 wrote:i remember one place in leeds...just played a dig it and there all shouting get the drinks in mate get the drinks in. Then this bloke stood in front of the door....as i was leaving. ur not leaving without buying me a pint. i said how about i play u a frame of pool if i win ...i come back in here every week and play that machine and u say nothing. if u win i will buy everyone in the bar a drink and never come back. i ended up 8 balling him cutting the black off the middle of the back cushon into the left pocket. I still bought him a pint...and after that i got him one every visit and they all been fine with me since then. sometimes u gotta think on ur feet. i still see him now...they even had a bankers bonus i was emptying. for a good few weeks

Great story, respect to you for that.

In the Alien pub I would have left as soon as he asked if I was there for the machines. Just can't be fucked with that sort of hassle. One pub I used to go to was a right hell hole, and it was quickly a bit funny in there, especially with the rough as fuck locals pissheads, but everytime I did the fruit i'd put anything up to a tenner in the charity tin, which was a local initiative raising money so a 3 year old could get specialist care. It got to the point where the same locals would be cheering me on.

Still got banned though, but it was a nice barring.

Slotter · Post by **Slotter** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:07 am

trayhop123 wrote:aliens , electro's , dig its ,,,,,etc,,,,,,,,,,,, are all relegated to shit holes now

,,,,,,,, there's an old saying ,,,,,,,''if you go to seedy places , your gonna meet seedy people ''

in another thread ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, we hear criticism for sticking to spoons and chain pubs........ that we're all rats overplaying the same machines etc

thats a fair point ,,,,,,,,,,,,,and there may be better money to be made in the tucked away village pubs,,,,,,,,,,BUT

a lot of these back street pubs are one hit wonders ,,,,,,,,,,,, you may get away with it once ,,,,,, twice ??? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, just look at mavericks example above

as a rule,,,,,,,,,,,, 95% of the time ,,,,,,, you dont get shit in the chains

Surely its more ratty going around shit holes scraping value out of old games? i cant be arsed to waste half hour of my life trying to sweeten a pub, if its fire i just wont bother going back.

Glendale · Post by **Glendale** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 1:12 am

Its strange that at times you go in a total rough dump of a pub, think im dead, def ban, yet year later all good! Go in another pub, win, everyone loves you, yet when you return the dreaded ban!

toothless11 · Post by **toothless11** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:03 am

I've had to physical fight myself out of a pub before. Was on the outskirts of Wakefield which had an indie and a Cash Or bust £70s.

Landlord was pissed which didn't help things... All the locals stood up, landlord locked the door and they all cornered me at the back... My mate, ran into the toilet and locked himself in the cubicle whilst I held onto my note-filled wallet for dear life and ran towards the locked door...

Got into the motor and I see my mate hanging out the toilet window about 2 metres in the air... He fell and fractured his wrist. Serves him right letting me take the beating yet he runs off like a fag...

I could of got the police involved but I couldn't be arsed. Would of came to nothing anyways as the landlord turned off the CCTV too.

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:02 pm

toothless11 wrote:I've had to physical fight myself out of a pub before. Was on the outskirts of Wakefield which had an indie and a Cash Or bust £70s.

Landlord was pissed which didn't help things... All the locals stood up, landlord locked the door and they all cornered me at the back... My mate, ran into the toilet and locked himself in the cubicle whilst I held onto my note-filled wallet for dear life and ran towards the locked door...

Got into the motor and I see my mate hanging out the toilet window about 2 metres in the air... He fell and fractured his wrist. Serves him right letting me take the beating yet he runs off like a fag...

I could of got the police involved but I couldn't be arsed. Would of came to nothing anyways as the landlord turned off the CCTV too.

you should have took care of his windows after that

harry2 · Post by **harry2** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 5:14 pm

Remember some big black guy in arcade done his bollocks on the machine, so he sticks his fist through the glass. The manager comes running out, locks the doors and tells the cashier to phone the police. This is really going to kick off, I thought as the manager stood in front of the locked door. The munter just looked around, cool as a cucmber, walked up to the fire exit, pushed the bar and strolled off down the street. Quality.

Glendale · Post by **Glendale** » Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:42 pm

Sheer quality!

toothless11 · Post by **toothless11** » Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:02 am

I walked into a small shitty pub about 6 years ago which had a £25 keyable Extreme. I saw the machine was smashed to pieces and the police were flicking through the CCTV to see what happened...

It only happened to be a local player who picked up a stool and began to beat the fuck out of the fruit. Was a funny scene tbh. The bloke just wouldn't stop! The chair broke, so he started kicking and punching it!

After leaving, I had to ring him to see what made him do this?... His answer was that he done it because it was 1,1,1ing. WTF lol.

He's given up now, but there would be no fruits left if he was still playing!

Captain.Tattybojangles · Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:12 am

Some people should have been barred from holding pound coins at birth.

maverick69 · Post by **maverick69** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 12:05 am

Funniest thing ive seen i was sitting on a dial years back...some big black guy was playing a oxo....he was pumping it and slamming the buttons. then the button got jamed so he got a coffee and just poured it all over the buttons to try and dislodge it , the fat bastard cud have been electricuted

anfield road · Post by **anfield road** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 9:25 pm

i always pour water on sticky buttons, or put ice cubes on them and wax on wax off!!! never being burnt

maverick69 · Post by **maverick69** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:00 pm

lol u nutter.....played a ltd today some cunt had stuck the button down...i carry tooth picks around with me and go arounf the edges with them. works 90 per cent of the time

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:08 pm

I've never had a button yet that can't be released with a bit of ice, good tip.

tommya · Post by **tommya** » Tue Nov 22, 2011 10:40 pm

Always get ice in your coke top tip comes in very handy

asfish · Post by **asfish** » Mon Nov 28, 2011 3:50 pm

I don't understand why they get so pissy

20 odd years ago I worked in a pub in London, there was a quiz machine with £10 JP forget the name, but a bunch of students had some trick and emptied it every time.

Next time the machine supplier came in I told him to fix or get rid of the machine, saying we weren’t going to pay for a machine that could be cleaned out. They denied there was an issue but I persuaded them to charge no rent and split the take 50\50. A few weeks later they took it out when it made nothing.

It’s the suppliers fault or even plan that these machines can be done, the landlord should be wise more so in this day and age with the internet.