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Weird Things Found In / On Your Pinball Purchase?

By calico1997

10 years ago

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#101 5 years ago

ROB

Rdoyle1978

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Quoted from TimeWarp1:
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.

I believe you win Pinside today with the most depressing story I have ever heard about a pinball machine!

#102 5 years ago

CRP

LateCenturyMods

Pinside member

Houston, TX

8y 55,150 304

Quoted from Oneangrymo:
Bottom of my Alien box from Australia had a freaking huge dead cockroach. I looked through the pinball machine.. luckily nothing else! Must have frozen on the flight over here.

Pff. Only half grown. Come down to Houston, or Florida. We'll show you huge.

#103 5 years ago

BOY

vid1900

Pinside member

Sana'a

12y 169K 40,241 18

Quoted from ectobar:
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.

Same as our friend who got shot with a "Bow & Arrow" in the abdomen and has a monster scar that you touch for good luck.

He always corrects everyone that he really only got hit with the Arrow.

#104 5 years ago

BOY

vid1900

Pinside member

Sana'a

12y 169K 40,241 18

Quoted from LateCenturyMods:
Pff. Only half grown. Come down to Houston, or Florida. We'll show you huge.

Yeah, I know all the idiots in Florida eat them like candy, but they are disgusting .

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#105 5 years ago

???

Burt6666

Inactive member

Unknown

7y 3,250 1

Found a bag of dried out weed....musta been in there for years.Weighed 16 oz dry though...

#106 5 years ago

LXL

Isochronic_Frost

Saratoga Silverball

7y 221K 9,408 108 1 1

Quoted from TimeWarp1:
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.

That’s really touching actually, poor guy.
Means he really hasn’t been dealing with his emotions and he should probably seek out someone to talk to. Drinking doesn’t solve those issues

#107 5 years ago

ARF

AlexF

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Edgerton, WI

11y 116K 5,764 9 8

Sometimes I find some old "miniature" bulbs.

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#108 4 years ago

???

Just picked up a four million b.c. that had been in a guys office at an ad agency for the past 20+ years. Got it home and started going through it and found a very old tied off condom and it’s torn wrapper?!

After getting over the initial shock of realizing what was in my hand, my first thought was “there has to be a thread on Pinside about weird stuff in games”. lo and behold...

#109 4 years ago

ROB

Rdoyle1978

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Quoted from BeachPickle:
Just picked up a four million b.c. that had been in a guys office at an ad agency for the past 20+ years. Got it home and started going through it and found a very old tied off condom and it’s torn wrapper?!
After getting over the initial shock of realizing what was in my hand, my first thought was “there has to be a thread on Pinside about weird stuff in games”. lo and behold...[quoted image]

Ew.

#110 4 years ago

DOG

Whysnow

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Quoted from BeachPickle:
Just picked up a four million b.c. that had been in a guys office at an ad agency for the past 20+ years. Got it home and started going through it and found a very old tied off condom and it’s torn wrapper?!
After getting over the initial shock of realizing what was in my hand, my first thought was “there has to be a thread on Pinside about weird stuff in games”. lo and behold...[quoted image]

Sorry, my bad

#111 4 years ago

LEV

CrazyLevi

Crazy Levi's Pinball

New York, NY

10y 148K 33,545

Just last week I vacuumed a small lizard skeleton out of a Nine Ball.

#112 4 years ago

LXL

Isochronic_Frost

Saratoga Silverball

7y 221K 9,408 108 1 1

Quoted from BeachPickle:
Just picked up a four million b.c. that had been in a guys office at an ad agency for the past 20+ years. Got it home and started going through it and found a very old tied off condom and it’s torn wrapper?!
After getting over the initial shock of realizing what was in my hand, my first thought was “there has to be a thread on Pinside about weird stuff in games”. lo and behold...[quoted image]

Is the problem a sticky relay?

#113 4 years ago

JPD

Dayhuff

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Battle Creek, MI

11y 126K 6,353 79 11

Quoted from thedefog:
The guy that had the opossum or raccoon living in his machine was pretty good.

Here you go.

John

#114 4 years ago

JNS

TecumsehPlissken

Pinside member

Longwood, FL

9y 115K 2,558 10 103

Quoted from CrazyLevi:
Just last week I vacuumed a small lizard skeleton out of a Nine Ball.

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#115 3 years ago

JOE

joemagiera

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Evanston, IL

11y 43,400 630 8 1

OP
Quoted from calico1997:
I've just got to ask...what's the weirdest thing you've ever found inside or stuck on your used Pinball Machine purchase?

Not a pinball game, but I picked up a ratty Pac-Man in Chicago yesterday that, how shall I say,... wasn't quite the area Bill Gates would live.

I was cleaning it out today and inside were two live hollow point bullets.

They are illegal in Illinois and most other states.

I guess I'm glad I didn't haggle too hard on price and get the seller angry.

Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)
[email protected]

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#116 3 years ago

j_m_

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11y 124K 7,590

given the prices of ammo today, you got an extra $2 in your deal

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#117 3 years ago

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phil-lee

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8y 91,550 4,215

A Business card from "Pinball Service Agency Switzerland" signed by Brundler Paul Obernau and Mier Anton Luzern.
Anybody know these guys?

#118 3 years ago

YZF

yzfguy

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Quoted from phil-lee:
A Business card from "Pinball Service Agency Switzerland" signed by Brundler Paul Obernau and Mier Anton Luzern.
Anybody know these guys?

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#119 3 years ago

ACE

pinzrfun

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Belleville, MI

11y 90,300 4,310 20

Momma and about 4 babies.

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#120 3 years ago

???

Mopar

Pinside+ Member

Unknown

7y 80,050 4,180

Back in the 90s I put out wanted ads in hick town Penny Savers. I got a call from the manager of a
Sate Park that wanted the machines out of one of the buildings that used to be for Air Force base in
the 1950s. For $100.00 I got 5 machines with one being a 1956 14' United ball bowler. Inside was a love
letter from a wife with negative of photos. I thought that that was pretty cool, so I wrote and left a note
inside telling the story where it came from so what ever happens to the machine, the story can carry on.
I presently have the machine in my hometown's local Community Center..
Also back in the 90s, I picked up a digital pinball machine that I left in a corner. I was only into EMs
so that pin sat for a long time. Back then I was getting a few calls a week and couldn't remember where
machines came from. 2 or 3 years later I opened it and there were 2 brown paper bags inside. Opened one
and there's a stack of 20s. Opened the other, and another stack of 20s. I won't say the amount because many
probably would call bs. I never again got a call about the machine or its contents. Strange. Maybe hot money..
btw: the machine was a Zaccaria Farfella. After I traded it off for an EM, I was later told that it was a somewhat
wanted game..

9 months later

#121 2 years ago

LOL

stumptown

Pinside member

11y 47,050 289

I've seen lots of mice, but this is the first time I've found a damn frog in a machine. It was quite deceased, and thankfully didn't leave much of a mess. Found in a High Speed that'd spent many years outdoors under partial cover.

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#122 1 year ago

EJS

Eric_S

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Oshkosh, WI

11y 131K 1,719

Found this token in a project game I'm working on.

1 month later

#123 1 year ago

j_m_

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11y 124K 7,590

those are from a brothel. I have a whole bunch of them that I polished to look brand new

#124 1 year ago

belairjoe

Pinside member

New London, NC

11y 71,150 636 20

i also received a polish from a brothel.never got a coin for it

#125 1 year ago

MIK

Miguel351

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11y 81,400 4,571 3

You can still by them in bulk, too.

https://www.tokensdirectstore.com/Instock.aspx?Item=T984-330-331

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