Dunham 2, Pub 1!!!

[Dunhamzzz]

Okay, so heres a long story....

Space raiders has been in a pub for literally a few days. I got to do it.....

its ready from the off, 2nd board and its skillshotting. Happy days. About £30 I get mugged iwtha a collect prize for £10 (its chipped of gamble on ?), so that sets it back, im a total of £40 in and I get MS for £42, next board its still ready, but as they are getting a band in and and have already moved the fruity to an awkward -i-have-to-move-every-time-some1-wants-to-get-past spot I decided to take the £10rpt I prized in and leave.

Well no way was they going to happen! Bar manager butts in.

"that £25 maximum payout, you cant take all that out of it"

me- "you what ?"

"put all the money you've just taken out in the tray now" (baring in mind half of it is already in my pocket).

"You what ?????!!!!"

"put it all in there now, you cant win more than £25 out of the machine and you had £50 out of ther at least"

"yes you can, i banked wins" (I even pointed out the £10rpt was still lit up)

"empty all those coins now"
I reluctantly do it, he even taps my pockets to make sure they are empty! There was even a few quid in there which I hadnt even taken out of the fruity!

Me- "I honestly can't believe your doing this, this is some sort of joke, your haivng a laugh"
I dare say I tried to explain to the guy than I collected wins and that it was possiblel to build the bank up, but he wasnt having it.

I go get my mate (whose A LOT bigger than me and would put up more of a fight) Sods law he's busy on the phone. I turn around the landlord passes me £25 which I "won" and grabs me by the shoulders and pushses me out! !!!


Right. No way am I taking that lying down, I wasnt even that much up from the raiders in the first place.

Call the police non-emergency number, I explained what happened, even the schmoe on the phone said "yeah, u can win at least 60-70 pounds out of them sometimes, he promises he calls me back.

I put my phone on loud, eagerly awaiting the phone call, I even stashed my refil key somewhere just incase they quizzed/searched me, which ?I hadnt even used(to help my arguement).

Guess what, some twat whose been ringing me all day rings me for the best part of 45 seconds and I miss the call !! THe bloke left a voice mail sayin he'll send some officers around an I should help the cause by loitering aroun the area.

30 mins later a police car turns up I explain to them, and again they realise that "£25 is maximum only in one go" its possible to get more in multiple plays. I tell them my story and they go chat to the guy, they then came back and told me what the manager had said: ( this will probably make you smile )

Cant remember exactly but these quotes stuck in my mind.

"this machine has been emptied 3 times in the last 3 days"

"people have been coming in, with codes they have got off the internet and typed them in to empty the machine"

"He was in ther for 2 mins and took 50 out of it"

I do not even need to say thet that was all bullshit, i was in ther at least half-hour to put 40 and recycle £10 thru it !

Then, thankfully, the pubs OWNER (above the manager) came through and gave me all the money that was taken. I was given the choice of gonig through court and getting them prosecuted for theft etc etc or just accpeting the offer. TBH I accepted the offer :P

And all that on xmas eve!whats the Point!!!!!

[Dynamike]

I love stories like that, I'm glad it all worked out for you though.


What I've noticed with those chipped Raiders though is sometimes they go nuts off a £10/£15 win. I've had a few give Mega Streak next board and big amounts too. My mate turns them off if he gets collect prize, that's not always appropriate though. The best way is if you know it's not going to go that board to kill it off before it can land on a ?

[Scott]

i've had the 'your putting codes in' treatment before on a cliffhanger a while back


at least you got paid.

[ob]

You were lucky the police even bothered to go there tbh, in a similar situation I was in, the police said as the landlord " thought " I had not obtained the money fairly he had a right to take the money pending a court case - and that it was a civil matter and not upto the police to decide whether the landlord was right or not even if it seemed obvious ( well from my point of view ) he was wrong. They didn't even send anyone!

Tbh I couldn't be bothered going through court, although it was for £250 ( club machine ), didn't want to waste the time/hassle.

[jeffvickers]

I was in a pub the other day, I had put £40 in, was ready for tops, extracted £25 off top and tried to reforce as reds were still showing.

Only problem was, the bouncer was watching me like a hawk from the start.

The next second, the bouncer suddenly holds me from behind and throws me out (with £25 still in bank with £10 credits to play and still on run.)

So I got my car, pulled outside the pub and saw the manager.
The manager said he could'nt do anything cos he did'nt see what happened.

Then the bouncer came out of the door, I told him that he was a thief and if he did'nt give me my money I would go to the police.
I was in the car at the time with my window slightly down so the bully coul'nt grab me.

He said" I saw you key it, so no", I said "You f***ing lying thief". You know I did'nt."
As it happens, all keys don't work for the particular leisure company so i would have no reason to key the machine.

So he stands in front of my car and makes a gesture as to say, come on then, what yer gonna do, so I first revved my engine, he did'nt move, that was all the catalyst I needed to engage 1st gear and set off.

I think my bonnet needs replacing, there is a nice bouncer backside mark on it. F***ing thieving lying bully deserved it.

[nigeswindon25]

about a year ago i had a hopper jam on a legal tender in a walkabout.wrote out the slip as you do with all my details number amounts owed tel number etc.continuallyy returned weekened after weekend for a month dealt with the same aussie tosser who one night conveniently had no recolection of me even dealing with him or leaving any details.i was knarked and swore at him where i was shortly picked up and lobbed through the door and put on pub watch in town centre all night,triffic.still to this day i know some one thieved it

[Guest]

Hate operators like that, at the end of the day on playing legit methods (all thats really out at the min?!) they will have there percentage.

They are no better than a common thief.

Fairly recently i had an incident where i played a top giza.

Pushed out the top which done a nice £50 from around 40 in, took a while to even show so i wasnt exactly complaining!

Anyway, a few credits after that the bonus generously offered me a number runner, on a 2! with the red 7's on .

Bouncer walks over to me and suddenly the machine power is off , i say, did you turn that machine off, "mate", "nah, no idea, must have been a power cut or something". OK

So i walk to the bar and ask for the manager who is not errr currently available. Barmaid says turn it back on so i do.

At that point the very same bouncer walks over again and says, nah time for the machines to be turned off

RIGHT, well anyway, he was insistent aht he hadnt spoken to me previously and hung around the machine.

I walked up to the barmaid again, she said, they shouldnt be off yet, turn it back on again.

OK, machine back on, bouncer hanging around the machine turns it off (again), even though i had enough time to get it on and point out to him that i had £54 banked, "nah but thats not your money", oh? well whos is it then? "errr, that guy owns it, you wernt even playing the machine" (seemingly a mate of his).

In a rage at this stage and VERY pissed i start hurling abuse at the guy, nothing much really but enough to get me kicked out.

When i got home i phoned the bar and demanded to speak to the manager who seemed ok. Was he fuck

Next time i tried to get in without paying entry fee, just to see the manager who very nicely demands i "get the fuck out"

Very nice location, ended up trying to to back again so get my money (again when pissed), ending up with a black eye

Some real scum around nowadays. Youd think 30p from every pound that enters the machine would be enough?, well seemingly not.

[bigv038]

if i was you dunz i would never have put the coins back in the payout tray. Atleast you got your money back in the end tho. are you barred now?

[Cardinal Sin]

I was working in Inverness last year for a couple of nights. Decided to go into a local snooker club for a drink and a wee shot on the machines. Bought a pint, and started playing Club Royal Exchange... put quite a bit in cos it was full and playing well. Next thing you know, I've won £150. Happy days!

Two women working behind the bar, one of them asks me if I'd like to change some coins into notes, as they were a wee bit short behind the bar. Next thing you know, they've handed me a form to fill out. A form to apply to join the snooker club... I could tell where this one was heading.

Told them that I was only up for one night, so there was no point in joining. They said I had to be a member to play the machines, I said that they never told me. They then pointed out a miniscule sign half-obscured by the machine. So then my winnings were handed over, minus the 25 quid joining fee!

I was pretty livid, but knew there was hee-haw I could do about it. I could hardly start threatening anyone, let alone lassies behind a bar. So I ripped up my card (oooh, that'll show them) and walked out of there (still fuming).

[itsme]

love reading these kind of stories,i think they're great.

anyone else had any mis-fortune with the fruits???

black eyes - barred from pubs - that kind of thing ??

[Martal~Wombat]

Keele Services m6 2001, Card Shark,
Repeat not there 4 the free win, still was
okay from the off so decided 2 do the 90job
on it, 90 in2 it, just about 2 break the 1st JP
on the cash trail & the mech falls off!!!!!
Not a very nice thing 2 happen when your over
100 miles from home 4am in the morning, no
chance of a mechanic and Welcome Breaks
policy is 2 give u a pound back! :x

[Dunhamzzz]

if i was you dunz i would never have put the coins back in the payout tray. Atleast you got your money back in the end tho. are you barred now?

not officially, the police kindly suggested i stay clear for a while though.

[Dynamike]

About 2-3 months ago a mate and I were doing a quick Monday night round. We knew of an AFU in a sketchy pub but we've not had any trouble there before. We wonder in, to the left there's a crowd of regulars (7-8 ) hovering around the pool tables; right scum of the Earth; people that make you ashamed to be English basically. The only other people in there were the bar maid and a couple of old men.

We go upto the bar, order a couple of drinks then sit and drink them for a few mins perched at the bar. Go on to the machine, true to form the idiots in this place have no idea, it's off it's face. As we get the AFU streak after approx £10 in the ring leader, along with a truly massive bloke the size of a bus, comes over muttering some nonsense about using a key, which we denied as we hadn't used one - it was boxing from the off anyway. He hadn't taken too kindly to the fact that we'd come in and won, he kept motioning to the group of morons standing with pool cues to stand ready a little bit, although it was obvious to us he was doing that to try to scare us at this point.

He was asking how much we'd put in and how much we'd won. We lied obviously saying we were at least £20 in and were expecting the streak to stop at £30. But no, it kept going and going and going: it turned from embarrasing to worrying when the streak kept rolling after £25: pink bars; melons; strawbs etc (stopped at £48 ). He then started demanding money for 'the jar' as we'd come in and taken what wasn't ours, etc and we'd cheated with the mystical fruit emptying key.

Protesting our innocence was to no avail, with the honest and reasonable 'we just came in for a drink and got a bit lucky; we've not cheated the machine' statements being rebutted by menacing and in-our-face threats such as 'there's two ways this can go: give us some money for the jar or we'll lock the doors'.

Looking round to see the, presumably coked-up, lads, with cues, being beckoned further forward by this dickhead, with no easy escape to the door, or handing over what we haggled down to be a tenner (he counted every coin as well, the tosser) was no real contest when it came to it. It's hard to believe they would have locked the doors and done us for a few quid but they did appear to be the kind of people who'd fleece your wallet before calling you an ambulance if they found you dying in a gutter, but we still made a just under fifeteen each anyway It wasn't even the pub's machine, Crown Leisure if memory serves. That's definitely the closest call I've had other than a few dodgy looks in empty pubs when getting £75s on Reds.

[MrRed]

A mate of mine rang me the other day
Told me there was a LAB in a pub 'out of the way'
It will be worth going for a look

Anyway got to the pub and straight away i turned to him and said
'This looks a right dive'
It will be ok he says

Walks in and everyone stops what they are doing and turns to look at us

I put my head down and go and get a pint
No way was i getting half a coke in here

There was LAB no one on it
Walks over and about 4 guys all over 50 came and sat behind me
At least their tattoos were spelt right

No way could i key this
Now i am not sure if i was happy or nervous when the first pound dropped down the back, but i did turn to my mate and smile

I was hoping for a quick top and off
Cost me £30 for £25 then another £15 for a £75
The look on their faces was not good
Then when i had pocketed the lot one of the oldies turns and says
'nice win, how much did you put in'
I said about £60 to £70 so not a massive profit

Get the drinks in then he says
I said no and walked straight out and have never been back
I thought i was gonna get done over for sure
It was full of blokes all looked like nutters

We laugh about it now but could have been a lot worse

I will stick to my spoons and town centre bars for now thanks

[jeffvickers]

Just depends, down the road from where you went, the clientele may probably be wonderful,

just like a town centre pub can be full of pricks or a wanker doorman knows your game.