Mississauga, ON
Cleaned a rats nest out of a Space Station last night 
Now I can make that left orbit dock shot again 
At least the game was fully working when I powered it up!
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Auckland
Colorado Springs, CO
Went to my buddy's house and he wanted to show me his prized BBB prototype. It was on its legs but under a blanket with the head down.
He lifts the head and we heard what sounded like dirt or pebbles falling in the head. Hmmmm. That is odd.
Turns out those 'pebbles' were mouse turds falling when he lifted up the head. AND there were LIVE mice living in the GAME!
I shit you not we were both in AWE watching mice scurry across the playfield under the glass!
Of ALL the games he had, they picked the most expensive one to nest in. Yeah it was surreal seeing mice scurry across a $20K game. That and then watching him frantically vacuum live mice out of his game with a shop vac.
True story!
Sana'a
Quoted from dankme:Went to my buddy's house and he wanted to show me his prized BBB prototype. It was on its legs but under a blanket with the head down.
He lifts the head and we heard what sounded like dirt or pebbles falling in the head. Hmmmm. That is odd.
Turns out those 'pebbles' were mouse turds falling when he lifted up the head. AND there were LIVE mice living in the GAME!
I shit you not we were both in AWE watching mice scurry across the playfield under the glass!
Of ALL the games he had, they picked the most expensive one to nest in. Yeah it was surreal seeing mice scurry across a $20K game. That and then watching him frantically vacuum live mice out of his game with a shop vac.
True story!
kind of a "thats what you get" for keeping it folded up.
Quoted from dankme:Went to my buddy's house and he wanted to show me his prized BBB prototype. It was on its legs but under a blanket with the head down.
He lifts the head and we heard what sounded like dirt or pebbles falling in the head. Hmmmm. That is odd.
Turns out those 'pebbles' were mouse turds falling when he lifted up the head. AND there were LIVE mice living in the GAME!
I shit you not we were both in AWE watching mice scurry across the playfield under the glass!
Of ALL the games he had, they picked the most expensive one to nest in. Yeah it was surreal seeing mice scurry across a $20K game. That and then watching him frantically vacuum live mice out of his game with a shop vac.
True story!
Their screaming when sucked up is quite thing. Years ago I had a mouse that kept raiding the junk drawer in my kitchen from behind the cabinets. I put a trap in there and sometime around 2am I heard it banging around after it got its leg caught in the trap. I took my shop vac and sucked his ass up. A lot of screaming but still not as bad as the time I used the vac to suck a live one off a glue trap because I wanted to reuse it. Can't imagine the amount of twisting and breaking that little body endured till it wound up on the bottom of the vacuum. 
Quoted from dtown:Their screaming when sucked up is quite thing. Years ago I had a mouse that kept raiding the junk drawer in my kitchen from behind the cabinets. I put a trap in there and sometime around 2am I heard it banging around after it got its leg caught in the trap. I took my shop vac and sucked his ass up. A lot of screaming but still not as bad as the time I used the vac to suck a live one off a glue trap because I wanted to reuse it. Can't imagine the amount of twisting and breaking that little body endured till it wound up on the bottom of the vacuum.
sounds aweful.
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I was going to guess that the pin was used as a collection box one holiday season for a toys for twats drive? One of the craziest things ever on pinside!
Quoted from calvin12:kind of a "thats what you get" for keeping it folded up.
Yup. And having the head down is what did it. Gave them a super easy way in. Even if the game was on the legs.
Quoted from dtown:Can't imagine the amount of twisting and breaking that little body endured till it wound up on the bottom of the vacuum
They all survived for him at the bottom of the shop vac. He had the next fun task of stomping on them all while still in the vac...Makes the back of my hair stand up even today. Nasty stuff. I hate mice.
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Thank you for making me laugh a amidst all of the mouse stomping stories.
Orange
I had one shipped from NC, dead of winter, when I cracked it open there live roaches, spiders etc. everywhere.... I actually had the same thing happen with a laptop I bought from california, powered up the laptop and freaked out when roaches starting crawling out of it on my dining room table. I will never again have anything shipped from climates where there are bug problems EVER AGAIN!
Quoted from king-pin:Pretty tame compared to these stories. Normally all I ever find are burned out bulbs, a few miscellaneous coins, and sometimes odd paperwork.
Same,+ dust.
That's about it here too. I did find a new spinning disk motor in my WW which was needed for it. 70 bucks saved 
I have found pool cue chalks (guessing the pin was in a bar at some point) and lincoln logs in another.
Quoted from ovfdfireman:I forgot, I found "crispy kittens" in my Klondike
This is more disturbing than the dicks.
I found a old fashioned Shoe horn in the back box of my Blackwater 100 / and oh yeah I did see that thread and the pic. with the live the opossum living in the back box of a party zone I think it was that "thedefog" mentioned and laughed my ass off
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Salisbury
Quoted from Aladdin:OJ Murder Case solved!!! Found this in the Flash I just bought!
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Looks like a screw driver to me. 
Quoted from Aladdin:OJ Murder Case solved!!! Found this in the Flash I just bought!
That looks like one of our family knifes from the 70's.
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4 years later
I guess I can join the Strange/Weird/Treasure found inside your game club now. Usually I find the usual part, screw, beer can(!), bulb, but this was a new one. From a Fireball ‘72 that (ironically) fireball2 and I are going to restore:
I just hope that we don’t find the used contents somewhere else!
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I still use it to this day.
Found this inside the latest game I picked up--a small bottle of alcohol from 1978 in the shape of a Corvette. It's still sealed. I thought it was a bottle of cologne at first glance until I read what was on the seal.
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Quoted from ForceFlow:Found this inside the latest game I picked up--a small bottle of alcohol from 1978 in the shape of a Corvette. It's still sealed. I thought it was a bottle of cologne at first glance until I read what was on the seal.
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That's like $100 off the price of the game!
Quoted from vid1900:hot water heater pilot guard
I have a friend who is a plumber who corrects everyone all the time that it's just a 'water heater' not a hot water heater. Naturally that just makes us say hot water heater more around him.
Quoted from jellikit:A load of .22LR rounds in a Banzai Run machine that came from California. It had spent some time in a barn, so I imagine that was part of the reason.
As in, in a box, or embedded in the cab?
Quoted from Darcy:In side the High Hand I bought a few months ago.
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Steel wool, dryer lint, piece of metal, cigarette butt, some rubber part, flower bud, and leaves. Inside a 70's Gottlieb, the old labels are a normal thing to find.
That’s not a relay, that’s a tilt bob! Those labels suck!
Quoted from newovad:Found this key jammed in the bottom part of the coin mech. Not sure why you'd stick a key in the coin slot?
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To divert coins into the cash box even when the coin lockout mechs wants to do otherwise. Service dude/cash collector did not know how to adjust of fix the true problem.
Found a framed pic of a pinup gal in one of my 1940's wood rails.
Its hanging on the wall next to the lineup of pins of that vintage.
I've also found quite a bit of money in 'as-found' pins but even more
in classic video game! Buying these sans keys often leads to nice suprises!
Steve
One machine had eight quarters and a nickle jammed in the coin chute. A ton of NOS rubber parts that were dry rotted and cracked.
I was checking out a Paragon and gave the outside of the game a go around and wanted to check inside the cab. But before I do though I check at the neck of the game because the head was off. I noticed there's crap almost stacked up to the neck hole. The seller, who was actually drunk reaches in deep and pulls out handfuls of envelopes and what appeared to be letters and pictures. The seller gets in this really depressed mood and then before I know it he pulls out a ring box. He opens it up and there it is; his late wife's wedding rings. Apparently his wife died and he never totally let go even after getting married again. He stuffed all his old pictures with/of her and all the memorabilia into the machine she bought him years ago as a gift.
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