Me and my brother were playing Roller coaster Tycoon at a local laundromat last year. Game worked great, in excellent shape too. The only problem was that the switch for the scoop was not recognizing the ball, and you had to wait for ball search to kick it out. the laundromat manager happened to be there, said "that's been doing that, the guy's coming to check it out".

Lo and behold!!, not a few minutes later the tech shows up and opens the game up, "attempts" to prop the playfield... and promptly drops it practically sideways in the cab, smashing the perfectly good ramp. My heart literally jumped in my chest as my brother and I look at each other dumbfounded.

Sad, sad story. I loved that game too, one day I'll have my own.

Well my friend Al (Pinaholic) is an op here in NYC.He's a big part of the pinball community in town and one of the reasons for the reemergence of pinball on route locally.He was buying a machine from Kevin at Classic Pinball in Jersey,deal was done, machine loaded,money recieved.Saying goodbye Al quickly slams shut the mini vans sliding side door......But leaves his finger there... WHAM.... chops his finger off at the first knuckle!!!!!Kevin scoops up the "tip" packs it in ice and drives Al to the hospital where they reattatch Al digit.He makes full recovery and is back doing his thing and we're all grateful for it.Be careful when loading/unloading games.Scott

When I picked up my F-14, It was sitting horizontally with no legs on a rolling dolly. The back box was up so i could inspect the playfield. The seller suggested i roll it to the outlet to see if it turned on. We hit a bump and the backglass popped out and shattered all over the machine. It took forever to clean it all up. The glass is plexi now.

Moral. ALWAYS put the backglass down when you are moving a pin.

Had the PF propped up on a Supersonic working on something, can't recall now what but I accidentally bumped the rod and the PF dropped onto my head. Thankfully the pin was OK and all I had was a small cut in the top of my head. Another dumb move for me was I had a PF on the rotisserie in the middle of a swap and somehow managed to bump into it and it fell onto the cement floor. Another close call but no damages. Wow, was that a sick feeling seeing the new PF with all the coils and a ton of other stuff already on it hitting the floor. Made a helluva racket, but no damages and everything worked like a champ when I completed the swap.

Yes B_R's post about losing that High Speed was Epic, the pics made it that much better!! Such a painful thing to see but what a sight to see a pin destroyed like that!!