St Joseph, MI
At least it wasn't an impulse buy car that landed on him.
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Quoted from gweempose:How the hell do you manage to accidentally knock over a pinball machine?
sounds like somebody got a little "teed off" (rimshot)...
Edmonton, AB
My recommended course of action would be as follows:
1) Do as your Mother and Father are asking, and remove the pins from their house
2) Take the pins back to your house and repair the Teed Off
3) During step 2, play the 3 games to your hearts content. Let your friends have their fill too.
4) During step 3, ask your Father what he wants done with the games--let him decide.
5) If by the end of step 3, if no decision is made, then if you sell any of the games, sell them for what they are then worth and send your parents the money.
These are totally middle aged white people's problems (not meant to be racist, just funny).
Best regards,
Tom
Quoted from toddtuckey:My beautiful Teed off!!!!
Ohhh no... I'm so sorry Todd. I know a lot of work went into it, I hadn't planned on letting you know. It didn't occur to me that you might read this, I'm not sure why!
Can we still be friends? 
Quoted from BMHouze:Seems kinda cold to just take them from your father. The man who provided half the DNA that provided you life.
On the flip side, the other half of the DNA wants him to take them.
Quoted from BMHouze:Seems kinda cold to just take them from your father.
It's not cold at all. As he is not taking from his Father. He bought the pins for his father, so he is going to be the one to sell the pins too.
The key is you don't have to decide the fate of the pins now. He just needs to move them from his parent's house. When they are sold, he needs to send his parents the money. All the stuff about 12 hour moving the pins has to be sucked up as part of being a good son. The OP has (or will) earn the right to play the pins as much as he wants though.
Just my 2 cents.
Best regards,
Tom
Quoted from robbiedoo:I can't help but to think this whole thing could have been avoided if I just would have gotten him a wide body.
If you had gotten him a wide body, he might be dead.
Quoted from robbiedoo:Every time I got close to accepting them, I thought to myself "You're making up reasons to make it ok to take them: He gave them to you, He's very well off, Neither of them want them, You did all that work"I felt like I was just making excuses to be ok with it, but it seems most people here are validating my own thoughts.And it's absolutely correct that he can come play them whenever, and if he ever wanted them back he could have them.I think I just added 2 pins to my collection. But somehow I still feel guilty
You Canadians are weird. Take the machines!! Consider it an early inheritance if it makes you feel any better.
Quoted from captainadam_21:You Canadians are weird. Take the machines!! Consider it an early inheritance if it makes you feel any better.
Or just finish what Tee'd Off started and make it a regular inheritance.
Quoted from jayhawkai:Good story, but your dad sounds like an idiot.
Actually his dad's friend sounds like the idiot. I mean I know Canadian beer is strong so therefore beer muscles must be exponentially stronger but managing to flip a pinball machine onto someone?
Did the ball at least get unstuck?
Quoted from n0s4atu:Did the ball at least get unstuck
If that was my pin I'd be re sticking that pinball if you catch my drift. 
Funny...my dad's loaded too but the only time he's ever given me anything is if I pay him back at 10% interest in 30 days. Would be nice....hey here's my Audi R8....I hate it...please take it off my hands. What different worlds we all live in.
Quoted from n0s4atu:Did the ball at least get unstuck?
another good laugh from this thread 
Quoted from robbiedoo:when I had it, it was flawless (it was a TNT amusements restoration, so it was in perfect shape)
This was the most hilarious part of the story.
I'll just say this. Some fathers aren't very good at saying "I love you", so they do it by giving you something. There's nothing wrong with that at all. If you hug him and say "Love you, dad" you'll have earned the games. Nothing cold at all about that. I'm saying that as a Dad - that's all we expect.
Quoted from JoeGrenuk:If only there were video to post on Youtube: "How to free up stuck ball on pinball playfield".
Isn't that why TNT threw that machine off the roof a few years back? that video is still up there...
-Rob
-visit http://www.kahr.us to to get my daughterboard that helps fix WPC pinball resets
Quoted from o-din:Is this your dad?
Quoted from Gryszzz:Thats one awesomely creepy avatarpic.
Thanks, I shopped it together today. The eyes and mouth are from Pennywise from Stephen Kings IT.
I feel it helps portray what a Big Mac must see before it's deliously greasy death.
Quoted from LitzDoc:Another "laugh out loud" moment on Pinside. I love it.
this was truly a laugh out loud thread 
Quoted from swampfire:Your dad wants to store the games at your house so he can play them when he comes over. Win-win.
Yes and then one day let slip you think his collection (at your house) is sh*t. It's way too small and doesn't even rank average among his peers. You'd happily add another three or four pins at his behest, if he'd be so kind as to provide the credit card info. 
Quoted from robbiedoo:They've made it very clear that they want me to take them, and they sound very sincere but I just feel way too bad doing it.
Take them for all your efforts. Tell your dad that he is to know they are still his pins. Tell him to come play them when you are there so you can show him how to retrieve a stuck ball in the future. Consider them 'on loan' to you and that will assuage your conscience. And like others have said, if he changes his mind and wants to try and have them in his home again, you will give it a whirl . . .
You are his son. It doesn't matter if he is wealthy or not. I have a grown son and if I gave him some pins I would WANT to . . . it would make me feel good . . . not that he was taking advantage of me.
Now . . . with that said, get those damned pins to your house and forget about all the lingering doubts!!!
Quoted from Atomicboy:TNT machines always seem to fall over, get pushed off a building, something...
Haaaaaaaa! That was a scream!!!!!!!!!!
Quoted from Gryszzz:Thats one awesomely creepy avatarpic.
Agreed....clowns are scary enough!!!....
Quoted from gweempose:How the hell do you manage to accidentally knock over a pinball machine?
I'm not sure either, but I would put anyone who does in the *awesome* category as well. Sounds like I missed one hell of a party.
Terry.
Quoted from pinballlife:Sounds like I missed one hell of a party.
Terry, After you get the order I'm getting ready to send in to you, you will be able to afford your own wild party!!!
Mike in Kentucky
Quoted from jayhawkai:Or just finish what Tee'd Off started and make it a regular inheritance.
What a 'killer' comment! Already creating inheritance schemes in your little lawyer-like mind!!! 
I would take them away and play them as suggested.
Do not sell them without consulting your father.
I think that is more than reasonable after all you did to try and help him get pins at home.
Maybe he will want another try at pinball later without beers or friends or at least remove one from the equation. 
Hope he is truly ok that is a lot of machine to come toppling down on someone.
Thanks for sharing
I've been getting a lot of requests around here lately for Teed off. So if it is salvagable maybe we can make a deal. The other ones you can keep.
Brisbane
Yeah... well my Dad killed 3 hitch hikers!
Don't mean to hijack the tread just love this story
https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/my-dad-killed-3-hitch-hikers
Quoted from robbiedoo:That's my main sticking point too.
Every time I talk to may parents it's "Have you put them in your game room yet?".
They've made it very clear that they want me to take them, and they sound very sincere but I just feel way too bad doing it.
There's only so much I can resist though, I think I might cave. EDIT: And then I feel, "there's no way that I can."
We don't really care
Quoted from robbiedoo:people were taking 'drunken' turns shaking/rocking the pin
This is a family forum. Please do not share what your dad was doing with the machine in his drunken state. Why do you think he said "I thought it was a quarter, I was trying to jam in the slot"? I am sure what really happened, was your mom came down stairs and said what the heck are you doing? He replied talking to Jake from state farm. She relied at 3 am in the morning? This look's hideous get theses machines out of here.
Awe man! Now Stern is going to have to include a wall anchor and strap with each machine (to prevent tipping) and redo their warnings too.
Quoted from wdpvideo:what the heck are you doing? He replied talking to Jake from state farm.
I just spit up my coffee.
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