Poor Comet. It deserved better.

I definitely would have offered to buy it from the guy.
Never want to see it again? I can make that happen AND you can make some money!

His bad mood wouldn’t have stopped me from asking to sell. If anything, you would of been doing him a favor by removing it so he didn’t have to. Too bad

Not what I expected clicking on this thread.

Ended up being more traumatized than I thought I would be by it.

Murder?

It is just a fucking pinball machine.

Yawn.

Yeah, far worse things happening in life than neglected pinball machines.

The playfield pic shows the game did it's part. It wasn't a graceful funeral, but it was due. They made 8,099 more just like that one. Plenty more out there in better shape than that one. Nothing to lose any sleep over.

Thankfully, a much larger percentage of operators today are also hobbyist. Maintenance on location games has never been better.

Why all the negativity today? I thought the story was fitting to the title. I am on pinside, right? The forum for people who are into pinball?

The guy shared a story of a pinball being ripped apart and sent to a burn pile - Sure, in any other forum on the planet - rip on the guy. But this is a Pinball Hobby forum. I'd say it was murder. Maybe the machine will be salvaged and we can just chalk this up to Abuse, or maybe some of the parts get reused and it atleast can be an organ donor and do the world some good.

Seriously guys, chill out... it's only pinball.

I’m thinking he’s probably the kind of guy that trashed it in spite of you.
From an outside perspective, you sold the bar a machine that replaced his.
He was probably content just leaving it there and it earned whatever it earned without him having to maintain it or do anything.
You sell the bar a machine and he’s told to come get his. Right or wrong, you killed his deal.

Now he'll sell it REALLY cheap. Working MPU alone is worth over $300.

Holy Sh$t, that had to be awkward as hell.

Shoulda bought him a beer, and then helped him burn comet out in the parking lot.

RIP comet, RIP boards. Sad face.

Exactly my point.

that machine had earned its place in pinball Valhalla

Should have told him u got a fire already burning and you will take care of the rest of the dirty work.

Next time, DO YOUR PART.

Find that operator, tell him you will gladly REMOVE ALL THE REST OF THE MACHINES from his route locations, DISPOSE OF THEM and pay him CASH TO DO IT.

Wait. Are you one of those guys who complained when Todd and his gang of TNT hooligans pushed a pin off a roof? Those guys are friggin savages.

The game more than served it's time. Probably had over 100k plays. Sometimes it's ok to put a game out of it's misery. Especially when it's a worn out game that had a production run of 8100. Seeing worn out games like this is a good thing. It wasn't a graceful retirement, but it was due.

God I hate clickbait.

Just make a regular title so people can decide if they want to read your post or not. Are you that needy that you have to trick as many people as possible into reading your post by claiming to have witnessed a murder?

OP, have you reported the murder to law enforcement or to a Judge?

Since murder is a Felony, you dont want to be charged with a Felony yourself. Google the definition of: "Misprision of a felony".....

Considering this is Pinside I knew it was going to be about a pin getting destroyed before I clicked on it. If it was about an actual murder I think that would have been a bit too serious for this site.