(Topic ID: 49691)
Sana'a
Woodstock, GA
6 months later
A small tube of "Grape flavored personal lubricant", right in front of the seller (she).
Awkward!
This just happened to me last week.
My Cat. Unknown to me She was scared by the vacuum cleaner so she jumped into my OLD CHICAGO Backbox (No back panel) and she went down into the hole. Thank God it wasn't turned on!! Had to get her out threw the Coin door.
1 year later
just had to add to this...
Just picked up a pin. The seller must be a "coke-head".
I found several baggies w/ the corners cut away, several straws cut about 3 inches long, a bunch of new razor blades, and a hand held mirror with what appears to be cocaine residue all over it.
Over the years:
A dozen jumpers that were connected in a working EM, serving no apparent purpose as the game worked fine after I removed them all, old juke manuals, James Loflin's business card from long before the IPB deal, enough hair to make about 15 cats, some Spanish coins, arcade tokens from all over the country rattling around between the coin door guts and skin of an apparently well traveled Flying Carpet, a squirrel nest with about 17 million acorns, a little notebook showing the # of plays and weekly coin drop for about a year of game operation - as I recall about $3000 worth, and a hollow point bullet.
Halifax, NS
Found my friends report card - F grades. I threw it in the garbage, & he still misses it. Still looking for the wad of cash or stash of drugs. Kind of like the holy grail of pinball finds.
Quoted from shacklersrevenge:Guy traded me his WCS94', inside was lesbian porn and Christmas lights.
I want that back! OK, you can keep the lights....
Melbourne
Getting a machine delivered from a non-pinhead owner tomorrow afternoon. Cabinet has been locked for some time so hoping for something good 
Quoted from dluth:This.
Is that seriously a possum? How the heck did he get in there and how the heck did you get him out? Do you still have all of your fingers?
I picked up a Williams Heat Wave that was supposedly in a mafia-owned bar in Chicago for many years. The owner didn't have a key so I was excited to get it home and take a look inside... I found absolutely nothing at all... so in 25 years of buying games, not much to add... basically the same as previous posters - typical stuff like coins, tools, an occasional schematic/box of bulbs/and old crusty rubber rings... why do people feel like these need to be saved??
Quoted from scylla:Is that seriously a possum? How the heck did he get in there and how the heck did you get him out? Do you still have all of your fingers?
Looks like a rabbit. Pet rabbit at that.
Quoted from scylla:Is that seriously a possum? How the heck did he get in there and how the heck did you get him out? Do you still have all of your fingers?
Yes indeed it is a possum. The machine had been in storage for 3 years in a country shed. It was brought home by removalists, who had it standing up in their truck. I played a few games and then my daughter who I guess was at the right height noticed movement when I opened the coin door. We got it out with a broom, at which point it made a dash for the nearest open door to the outside world. Unfortunately possums are very territorial and being 100km from home, it wouldn't have had too many mates around.
There was no possum poo inside so he must have only been there a short time before the machine was picked up by the removalists. I just don't know how he squeezed into the back, the backboard was down and there's only a tiny hole back there. I was very glad that he hadn't done any damage.
Possums are actually different animals to opossums and are indigenous to Australia. According to Wikipedia, when stressed, the North Amterican opossum secretes a foul smelling fluid from its anal gland.
I'm very glad I had the Australian version.
There are quite a few different opossums out there. Some are very pretty and all are shy and would rather play dead than fight. I had one as a pet and it was very sweet and mad a great pet. The ones we have here have the long hairless tail and look like rats. That almost looks like a Capyburrow. don't know if I spelled it right but it looks like a cross between a opossum and a monkey. They live in trees and eat fruit.
Quoted from dluth:Possums are actually different animals to opossums and are indigenous to Australia. According to Wikipedia, when stressed, the North Amterican opossum secretes a foul smelling fluid from its anal gland.
I'm very glad I had the Australian version.
Whew! I learned something new. Yep I'd rather have an Aussie Possum that one of our hissing nasty rats...
Quoted from dluth:Possums are actually different animals to opossums and are indigenous to Australia. According to Wikipedia, when stressed, the North Amterican opossum secretes a foul smelling fluid from its anal gland.
I'm very glad I had the Australian version.
Thats what I figured, you have weird possums, down there you got a lot of weird things.
A Bally coin box with the lid. And recently the 100 pop bumper cap from my Target Alpha that my Uncle thought the repair guy stole 25 years ago. Always love those backup emergency used rubbers in the cabinet. Usually conveniently retaining their shape. Waiting to find some good stuff like some of the other guys.
Actually the animal I was thinking about is a Kinkajou, I think. But now that I see the picture of that particular animal that may be what it is. Is that IJ in Australia? I always thought they were all Opossums and people just misspelled it. Are Possums marsupials like Opossums?
dead coral snake, in a HUO Sopranos from Florida.
And being in retail- pins I bought and pins in for repairs, used panties (YUK), drugs, pipes, some interesting pics, (and they weren't of the guys wife), unfiled divorce papers, mice, rats , bees, guns, lots of nos sets and goodie bags. I could go on and on.
Pincades
JT
Middleton-on-sea
A petrified half eaten sandwich that was locked up in a bally rogo (for extra safe keeping i assume)
and an unspecified number of live mice from a 1950 knockout..... unspecified because i just remember grey blurs whizzing past my head as they bolted into my house when i got the coin door out.
1 week later
Let's see ;
Rat droppings
A gun
A iPhone
A wallet from 1979 ( driver license expired)
Rat droppings
Vintage lighter
Quoted from tompallc:Baggie of cocaine. Was tucked neatly inside the fuse bag.
Are you sure it wasn't foot powder? (WKRP reference)
Rob
1 month later
I have found:
Cash
Hornets nest
A litter of crispie kittens
Paintball gun barrel set
Chocolate milk from 1984
I helped a guy fix his Slugfest. It didn't have any of the baseball cards it paid out left in it, but I found one trading card in the bottom of the cabinet. It was a Joey Lawrence trading card!!! He was a nice guy, so in the end, that card is the only payment I asked for.
Quoted from Axl:The best solution to tilt bob I have seen.
Shuld have been to MM...
my dirty harrold had a coin door lock used as the plumb, I thought that was creative.
I brought home a pin that the owner had no keys for. Drilled out the coin door locks and inside were several VHS tapes with "Private" written on them in sharpie .
I thought, oh my ! someone's home made sex tapes so I rustled up a VCR from a friend and was prepared to see some homemade erotica......not so much. The VCR tapes labeled Private were filled with Taped episodes of General Hospital soap operas from the earl 1980's What is so private about that, needless to say I was disappointed.
Brian
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