The only reason I ask this is because it has happened to me at least 3 times in the last 8 years... How many times (if any) have you been up late night working on a machine, went to bed very late and very tired, and/or for whatever reason forgot to close the coin door on your pin and somehow accidentally closed your cat inside the cabinet?

This is a bad scenario and I've been lucky (the cat has been luckier) that I've heard a loud howl from my basement or the wife realized the cat was MIA for it's dinner each time before my machines were turned on.

I had one cat that used to lunge onto my Blackout consistently from a high shelf in the middle of the night for no apparent reason and nearly crack the playfield glass, and another cat that was obsessed with jumping into open coin doors.

Thought I'd throw this one out there for some entertainment.

haha! nice to know I'm not alone here.

This is hilarious. I always try to make it a point now to close the coin doors if I leave the room even for a second when I work on my machines - specifically for cat related reasons. My cat is always in the shadows watching and waiting for me to leave a coin door open for another opportunity to occupy a pinball cabinet. I have learned my lesson. Gone are the days of finding tufts of cat fur stuck on solder connections, coils and drop target mounts under the playfield.

On a side note I will say that it is quite impressive how strong playfield glass/crystal is. We used to have a cat (Sophie) who was obese, she weighed around 17 pounds. In our basement we have a faux wall that divides our game room from a storage area. She used to climb up the junk and shelves in the storage area, crawl up above the wall (essentially between the ceiling joists) and jump down onto the glass on my Blackout machine which sat parallel against this wall. The thud could be heard throughout the house when this would happen, typically between midnight and 6am. Somehow the force of a 17 pound cat continuously slamming onto the glass after lunging almost 6 feet down never broke the glass.