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knave:
Sometimes life kicks you in the rear other times it rewards you.

The ticket dispenser exists to give out tickets. It's a real stretch to call it stealing when the machine malfunctions.  So you chose to get your kids something nice I'm sure it was fun for all of you.  At worst it is slightly morally ambiguous.  ::)

I'm sure your kids will not learn stealing from this. 

Pinballjim would have made a different choice and that's fine too.

So what was the crazy prize you all were referring to?

bluevolume:
Alright, since everyone is getting so excited about this, take a closer look at the details.  The machine wasn't malfunctioning, it was simply spitting out all of the tickets that it had queued up while it was empty.  So actually, he was just taking the tickets that other people had won but didn't want to put in the effort to collect.

Of course I doubt a six year old would put all of those pieces together, so maybe it was a bad lesson.  Who knows.  I'm sure I'll inadvertantly teach my kids bad things too.

hatrick:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 14, 2007, 11:25:50 am ---
--- Quote from: ErikRuud on September 14, 2007, 11:18:11 am ---That is why I did  not comment on his post.

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My bad behavior is a result of my own inclinations. 

If you found the repair guy once, you could have found him again.  You taught your daughter how to exploit and take advantage of a situation, rather than teach her about honesty.  The guy probably would have handed you hundreds of tickets anyway, and you could have told her, 'see, honesty is the best policy'.  But nope, instead, you stood there for 5 minutes while the machine shot its load all over your hands and taught a, "look honey, the world revolves around us" lesson instead.



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So let me get this straight...earlier pinballjim post and brags about how he ripped off this and that...
--- Quote ---Meh, I've climbed into the skeeball machine and tripped the switch in the 100 point hole manually hundreds and times and emptied a machine out.

An alarm will go off everytime you cross 900 points (which is the theoretical maximum) but you can keep going.  Hopefully, hopefully, the newer machines will shut off at some threshold, but these were newish early 90s machines!  =0

When I was younger, I used to tug ever so carefully on tickets as they were dispensed and you could occasionally get the dispenser to slip up and feed more or just keep feeding.  You couldn't go forever, you had to maintain a certain amount of force, but you could sometimes get an extra couple of feet of tickets.

I've even scammed those card reader things that spit out receipts.  Sometimes you get lucky and it'll grab the card wrong and the stupid things will malfunction and ADD tickets to your card.  There was a trick one at a Mr Gatti's that you could scam for 81 tickets a swipe if you did it right.    Always good for an armload of prizes.


I never felt too bad about it... a Tilt manager told me once that they priced things at basically 2 tickets for 1 cent.  So 400 tickets to buy a $2 item
 
 

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And then judges somone else. What a hypocrite.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on September 14, 2007, 12:53:07 pm ---
--- Quote from: bluevolume on September 14, 2007, 12:16:00 pm --- The machine wasn't malfunctioning, it was simply spitting out all of the tickets that it had queued up while it was empty. 

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Or, uh, it was empty because it was malfunctioning?

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That's my thought.  They don't keep a "queue" of backlogged tickets.  When they keep spitting out tickets it's because there is something wrong with the dispenser control circuit.

DaOld Man:
Ok, back to the original topic:
I think the strangest thing I have ever seen was this guy that ran the prize counter at an arcade in Owensboro, Ky. He looked really weird. I would not let my 8 year old kid go to that counter by himself.

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