Ever deliberately tipped a fruit machine over?

Nixxy · Post by **Nixxy** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:51 pm

Also need a button for 'No, but seen one leaning at a jaunty angle' - which is something I saw last year in a 'Spoons, a Bully For You had been tilted and was leaning against a handily-placed partition.

But for that partition, it would've been a gonna.

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 11:21 pm

err, yes.. although id prefer not to talk about it,

lets just say that someone got to a king ko just before me and left it £100 away from giving a nudge win or feature

Mattb · Post by **Mattb** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:43 pm

Dibble wrote:Never seen it but would love to do it to a few bell fruits and btw its impossible to tip a cow over! Living on a farm I can tell you why too. A) They weight a minimum of half a ton up to a ton and a half B) They sleep on the ground not standing up C) If they were alseep they wake up and will walk/ run away

This is ridiculously off topic, but: A post-doc at Cambridge, suggested one person could slam a cow down with a running start: "I have calculated that an 80kg (175lb) person would only need to run at the cow at about 18km/h (12mph) in order to tip it."

There is also the 3 people job. One runs at one side, the other two from the other side. One person hits it to knock it off balance, while the other two knock it over.

I reckon its certainly possible. Just because it's heavy, it doesn't mean it won't go over :P

Matt

drop the lot · Post by **drop the lot** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 11:25 pm

Cows have been known to sleep standing up and can be pushed over...they have absolutley no balance whilst asleep, now thats from a farmer and who else should know better.....

Matty · Post by **Matty** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 1:51 am

The cow- right very off the topic now ! I watched some guy come into my work and play a fast n furious put £10 in lost and pulled it over has the guy been back has he fuck

GoingGrey · Post by **GoingGrey** » Sun Jun 18, 2006 10:46 pm

Reminds me of when I was playing one of the old 5p machines in a pub back in 1979. If you got a nudge on these you'd get up to five nudges but had to be quick as they were on a timer.
Anyway, one of my mates was watching (don't think he'd played a machine or even watched one before) and, when it started buzzing and flashing "NUDGE NOW" he started banging the machine because he thought that was what it meant!

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Before you dismiss him as a total **** I should add that I've just come back from a lovely weekend at his £1.5m country house! At least he knew to stay off the fruits

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Mon Jun 19, 2006 1:42 pm

You used to be able to get £3 or £4 from an old Cops 'n' Robbers at the pub where I worked about 8 years back, if you pulled the machine slightly off balance. A guy I used to know used to do it pretty much every morning before opening times, to get a quick few quid for some fags and a bacon sarnie.

One evening however, he was trolleyed and potless, so tried it again. Hence to say, he over-balanced and pulled the bloody thing right on top of him. I think the only thing that saved his life was that the bar was quite near behind him, so the machine fell and hit that, leaving him cowering on the floor just underneath it...

...He was a prat by the way!