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[Nudgeman]

Today we (that's me and my mate) were driving back from Leek (Staffordshire) where we had been staying with some friends.
So we're on the M6 and we decide to stop off at a service station.
My mate played a Cops 'n Robbers and after a couple of £5 in £2 out type situations, I found myself playing a Top Gear.
£1 in and I was on the board. I managed to get the feature Work it Out and collected. I won £12, collected my money and was about to walk. I was aware of these two lads also hovering around the Gamezone.

One was about 6footish, blonde hair, white. The other guy was only about 5"4, darker hair, white, as he was a good head shorter than me, and I'm only 5"11. He also had a scar on his forehead/cheek (can't remember for sure).

Anyway, his opening gambit as he walked across was....

...."I don't like people like you."

I said "what are you going on about?"

He said "I've made hundreds of thousands out of this machine (indicates Top Gear) and I don't like to see people like you winning on it."


I must admit I was gobsmacked. Abso-f*****g-lutely gobsmacked. I've been playing fruit machines for years now! Never have I had someone come up to me and tell me they don't like the way I'm playing the machine (well, had a couple of arcade staff - but they don't count!). This is a random guy, just come up to me and said he doesn't like to see me winning on the machine.

The insinuation seemed to be that I was an inept half baked player and he was God's Gift to fruit machines. Thereby he is entitled to all money within fruit machines. He is owed a living from fruit machines. People 'like me' should not be allowed to win on them. Well he walked away as I gave him a befuddled stare.
Have you ever seen such an arrogant, disproprtionate sense of ego? That guy makes Maxwell from Big brother look like Mother Theresa. The guy keyed a couple of Barcrests and then stormed off in a huff with blondie.

I must admit I was angry that someone should think like that and behave like that. I said to my mate 'shall I have words with him?' now that I'd got over the initial shock but we decided he was too ignorant to even try to be educated. What a muppet. Anyone had anything like *that* happen to them?

> Jeez, I don't mind admitting that wound me up. Emulation has its advantages!

[Bencrest]

I told a landlord to shove his last customer up his arse a while ago [that isn't a joke, dad and I were two of about 5 customers, the pub is crap, he only had Fosters and Smooth on tap and they are always 'off'... people wouldn't eat there after they found huge clumps of German Shepherd hair in their food]....

...anyway, Dad and I were playing Hells Bells, about £30 in and £40 in the bank. Someone came into the bar, the kid that two weeks before had attacked his dad in the other side of the bar. Dad and I thought it would be wise to take the £40 and go, as we know that prick has a 'machine complex'. Anyway, he comes up to the bar [obviously buzzing his tits off on something], and shouted something in our faces, spitting, and tbh neither of us understood it. I said 'pardon?', as someone like me does. He then says 'you know f*****g codes!', and dad and I said we hadn't a clue of what he was on about'. He was pretty persistant, with his 'you know f*****g codes!!!' ranting... and he then said 'yeah, well I know the f*****g codes'... and proceeded to lose £30 in the machine.

Thought it best to leg it before he tried to beat the *ahem* 'codes' out of us, which we clearly didn't have.

Oh well, the landlord was getting paid by the mum of the arrogant aggressive junkie f***tard to 'keep an eye on him', and he valued that little bit of cash over his customers safety. Shame, he used to own so many pubs, and had a great reputation.... but I wouldn't go in again

Apart from that I've had plenty of other arrogant comments from the 'fruit machine gods', normally under 18s on drugs unfortunately.

[Gazeyre1966]

That's a shocking state of affairs Nudgeman. You have to remember though that there are people out there that try to live off fruit machines....God knows why they try, they just do. Obviously, these 2 guys had stuck in money just before you won or otherwise they wouldn't have bothered. They must have decided that the machine was in a "bad mood" and thought they would see how much it would take before deciding on when they would gamble again. Obviously your win set them back a bit....Good on ya for walking away when you did!!!

There is nothing worse than some chav or ned trying to disturb you when you are doing well. I think a law should be passed whereby's an abiding fruit machine player is allowed to kick the shit out of anyone who hovers/speaks/makes noises/looks...or does anything to put you off.

The same thing happened to me years ago albeit in a video arcade. Some guy thought it would be a good idea to throw himself across the video screen when I was just about to beat the high score on Pacman. I should have battered the living daylights out of him looking back...but it's the shock that stops you.

[pash]

too right there should also be a law stopping old women who have watched you load up a partytime from 2 machines away for about an hour then on your last tenner tell you they skanked it for £80 earlier..................

[stevedude2]

This topic reminds me of the time I got the Donkey Kong emptier (by watching two blokes do one in a pub across the road from my local arcades). I was only 18 at the time and couldn't drive, but I found out that two fellow players were off to Southend for the weekend and asked them (well, begged) to go with them in exchange for the trick (which they would have got sooner or later anyway).

After a weekend of holding down cancel buttons/finding machines already chipped, we set off home to Weston-super-Mare, stopping at every services on the way.

It was at one of these that the incident occurred. The three of us walked in, and I went for the fruits while the other two went for a piss. The first game I played was a Trivial Pursuit (original) and as luck would have it, got it 'on one' almost straight away, with red features aplenty.

So focused on the machine was I, that I failed to notice two resident meat-heads come up behind me.

'This is our area, now f*** off and leave. Don't worry about your money, it's ours now!'

Before I could even reply, the other f***wit grabbed me and pushed me into a JPM Big Wheel. I caught my head on the glass and ended up on the floor. They then turned and started playing off my credits and taking my bank out. I didn't even consider trying to protest and decided to leave straight away (I'm a big wimp).

As I got up one of my mates rushed in and caught the guy in the nose with the sweetest punch in the world. I swear blood flew across the next two machines along (Jewel In the Crown, Fantasy Football). His mate walked off saying 'SHIT! OH SHIT! OH SHIT!' over and over again. My friends scooped up my money and helped me to the car (I was a bit dazed).

When I thanked them, they said they only did it because we had been going 'thirds' for the weekend on profits, and therefore two thirds of the money was theirs!


Lol! Good job we were thirds, or they would have stood there laughing as I lay on the floor most probably!

[djgaryc]

too right there should also be a law stopping old women who have watched you load up a partytime from 2 machines away for about an hour then on your last tenner tell you they skanked it for £80 earlier..................

Pash... What did we discuss about Partytime


As for the cock in the pub... I would have stuck the nut on him saying I feared for my safty... You didn't know what he had in his pocket

I don't condone unnecessary violence Honest

[stevie300online]

Christ it's been a long time since I submitted a post, but hey...doesn't this kind of story make you think 'why the hell do I play these stupid machines in the first place?' I know that you shouldn't be bullied out of doing what you want, but is it really worth it?

Either give them up or learn Jujitsu ;-)

[frankie4fingers]

Not as bad as some 12 yr old girl down the rotunda in Folkestone coming up to me saying 'Do you know who my brother is?' while i'm playing a £5 crazy fruits. I didn't as it happens, but she probably knew mine. He's a local copper down there. LMFAO when I told her and she and her mates soon disappeared.

[RB]

id have nutted the twat, and his mate.

(RB can be a real nasty twat sometimes)

[Nudgeman]

Believe me I was tempted. However all Gamezones have CCTV. His mate didn't seem to have the same problem, so he was of no concern to me. Also I was with a female friend of mine, so didn't want any violence. If I was on my own, I would have had words with him. To be honest I was stunned! Never have I seen such arrogance.

Gazeyre (that's probably the wrong spelling) is probably right when he says they're doing it for a living. At the end of the day though, they don't own the machines, Leisure Link do, so it's tough luck if someone wins on them beforehand. He was getting flukey, getting boards off a quid on machines I'd just left, so I don't see his problem. He missed out on £11 profit. I was tempted to say a number of things.

1) If you've made hundreds of thousands why begrudge me £11?
2) I can't wait for section 16 machines to wipe out hi-techs and people like you will just have to make do with your jobseeker's allowance - paid for by the taxpayers - that includes ME, the person you don't like.
3) f*** off you shortarse twat.
4) You don't even know me, who the hell are you to make assumptions about me?
5) If you don't like seeing me win - don't watch! It's simple - just like you.
6) I don't like people like you who float around watching other people.
7) Get a job, get a life, get a brain.
8) Have you ever played Puffing Billy by BWB?
9) BLOOP!

However, as I say, so shocked was I that I just stared at him. Not in an aggressive way, just a mybrainhastemporarilycrashedIcan'tbelieveyousaidthat type way. So I thought of all these points later.

The irony is (now I'm being bigheaded) he could probably lear a lot about machines from me. An assertive not confrontational bemused manner seems to avoid explanations and violence, but it would have been far more satisfying to highlight the flaws in his arrogant views.

I've seen my fair share of crackhead fruit players. So I sympathise with Bencrest on Hell's Bells. This guy didn't seem to be on anything though, apart from a power trip. His manners were also disgusting. Spitting on the floor and dropping litter all over the place. It makes you wonder under what stone this pond life matures.

See, I've been to the pub and I'm still wound up. I should learn to calm down a bit. Fruit machines aren't conducive to relaxing leisure time are they?

Nah f*** it, I'm with RB. I should have smashed his scrappy little face into the Bullseye whilst he was keying it.

[FRUITJUNKIE1971]

There's some right nasty little fu**ers walking around them arcades ain't there! Makes me wonder why the staff who work in them don't turf them out on the streets, after all they must be bad for business surely?

And to think, I get the arse (rightly so) when a kid walks up to me (usually when I'm just on the feature board) and starts trying to take over and tell me how to play it, (and trying to press the buttons for me cos obviously being 33 myself I couldn't possibly understand such things as fruities, eh?)when I ALREADY KNOW HOW! TO PLAY THEM!...... (and if I don't, I'd want to learn how to play from my own mistakes!)

Got that, all you kids who spend all their time in the arcades!!

[Irvster]

similar thing happened to me in liverpool....mong watched me on the feature till i had enuff nudges for JP....came over pushed me out the way and nudged it in for me....nice fella....except he then kept half the money....i was only 13 and dead scared!!!

[reelbruce]

Having a quick pop in before getting to work (yes, Sunday!)

I have my share of idiots giving me 'advice', all the usual rubbish they learn from certain rather out of date 'guides' and 'cheat books'. And they can get quite huffy if you gently try and dis-abuse them of their cherished notions. But that's just funny, I don't think I have ever had problems of the scale I am reading in this thread, good grief, what kind of people want to behave like that. I have never been in an arcade for years mind you, I never liked arcades.

But for sheer cheek, try this story, which is almost laughable, if it weren't for the motives behind it.

I had just moved into town (this is only a short while ago) when I discovered rather a nice bar that suited me down to a tee - good lager, pleasant folks, friendly banter - and a damned good fruity! (forget the name of it now, Jumping Jokers I think it was). The reason it was so good, I discovered much later, was that an old boy was addicted to it, but had not one clue on how to play it. He never collected anything, just stood there staring up at the Jackpot symbol, waiting for it to light up!

Anyway, I started playing away at it and was delighted to hear that wonderful noise, coins going past the hopper! At the bar was the barmaid and a regular.

"Excuse me" she said sweetly, "you hear that noise it makes as the coin goes down?"

"Yes, that's my favourite noise!" I joked. She looked at me askance and with an air of pity, "Well, I just thought it best to tell you what that means."

I adopted an idiot all-agog look, this was going to be good!

"You see, that's it collecting money." she informed me, I nodded, and said yes, I know.

"So you see, that means it isn't worth playing. " she said.

I looked at my mate who gave me a ghost of a smile, but turned towards her with affected gratified concern.

"Yes, " she said, warming to her subject, "If it is dropping into the coin box, well it isn't going into the payout tubes, you see? So they are not filling up. This is what they call the machines 'take it for profits' time, and as long as it isn't going into the tubes, it just won't pay out. Just thought I'd save you some money, seeing as your new here."

"Oh really," said I , "thanks very much. I have a pal in the industry (here I was lying) and he told me the exact opposite, maybe he was trying to kid me on?"

We further thanked her for advice but would like to have a wee game anyway, just to get the feel of the machine.

Needless to say, I won a fair bit on it! And needless to say, she had been hovering for her chance to claim all she had seen going into it just before I came in!

[mintclub]

havent noticed any of this in sunny margate, but was in newcastle a while back, and it seems they have these w@nkers in the airport arcade. was with a large group of lads so there was no aggro or confrontations, but there were a couple of obvious "regulars" tutting and nodding every time one of us got a JP. must be worth the cost of a cheap flight every day, coz they were there when we arrived, whilst we were there (was working at the airport) and they were there when we left.
of course an unmanned arcade gives them full run of it i suppose

[kensplace2]

I have heard what can happen to people who "play" a machine in certain area's, its not widespread but in some places people "claim" a machine, and god help anyone else who is spotted playing it for real...

I dont play often in the wild, but if anyone pulled that on me these days,
revenge is a dish best served cold.

I hate cowards who bully, I dont mind cowards, but I cant stand the ones that bully people, and bullies are all cowards.

Considering some of the "people" who are into that scene dont even know basic stuff about fruites, it just goes to show what a bunch of chav's they are, and to top it off, most staff in most places let them get away with it.