bow your heads in a moment of silence

[spocktwin]

  on my way home last night from work I was traveling west on I-76 in Akron, Ohio.  I saw a little flat bed trailer starting to sway, it lets loose flips over and smashes against a guardrail.  We all stop and run over to make sure no one(thankfully no person was injured at all)  is hurt appears the trailer had snapped off at the ball and unfortunately the safety chains also broke.  To make a long story short as I looked at what was all over the ground what I could make out was  couple of galaga machines, a King of Fighters and some that I could not make out.  Found out the drivers name was Steve and he had just purchased them in Youngstown.....they were all destroyed with parts everywhere.   6 machines in all.............I'm sorry I can't go on

[Soulcon]

May the rise up to the Arcade heavens and fly on wings of golden silk screen. "Sniffle"

-Soul

[danny_galaga]

6 cabs incorrectly loaded in a small trailer will do that...

[Raven..]

I would have at least looked for salvageable parts (boards, controls, harnesses).  Even organ donors can help save others, and then they would not have died totally in vain.....

[paigeoliver]

The cabs and monitors were certainly all toast, but the coin doors, control panels, and boardsets would have a pretty good chance of survival, while the wiring harness could be fine, or could be ripped in half.

[spocktwin]

  I'm not quite as slow as I might seem.....told the gentleman (steve) not to just toss the parts in a trash bin that there are people out there you could use them to salvage other machines.  I gave him my email address and told I could help out.  He emailed me today just checking to see if he had it right......I will keep you all posted

[spocktwin]

ps..... as jcoleman and Icecold could tell you I will not get involved in it monetarily just hope I can direct some people to stuff they may need and maybe this guy won't take a complete financial loss.  He seemed like a decent sort (although 30 minutes on the side of a busy interstate is not exactly conducive to really knowing  a person)

[teef two]

If this was hollywood one of the screens would have discharged a little bit of residual current and briefly displayed "Game Over" before flickering off forever!

Even more poetic if one of the machines had been a frogger and subsequently run over by a truck.

[Stingray]

Even more poetic if one of the machines had been a frogger and subsequently run over by a truck.

Best laugh I've had all day.  

-S

[Brogner]

It wasn't one of those Uhaul trailers was it?  Hopefully this guy can salvage enough parts to sell to help out