Kids Scams
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User6179
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Another slot machine one: somebody at school worked out how to scam the Coke machine. If you held the button down and switched it off and on at the wall at the exact moment you put your money in, it would dispense a can and also give your money back. It didn't last long before they took the machine away. I think they cited fire regulations as it was situated under the stairs.
I also know a fruit machine scam but I'd best not share it.
Tell me more about the fruit machine scam
On the Roulette machines in the bookies you can tell if your a winner by where the ball enters the roulette machine in the software , once you know your a loser then switch the machine off then back on and claim a power cut to get a refund
Brandane
Legendary Member
- Location
- Costa Clyde
Free rail travel! When you saw a group of teenagers all cramming into the toilet to avoid the ticket inspector as they were all traveling on just one ticket.....
Go and knock on the toilet door pretending to be the ticket inspector and asking to see a ticket. When the hand appeared out the door with the ticket, take the ticket and return to your seat. Sorted!
Go and knock on the toilet door pretending to be the ticket inspector and asking to see a ticket. When the hand appeared out the door with the ticket, take the ticket and return to your seat. Sorted!
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
I also used to be sent 'scrumping' and mum made some lovely apple piesYes, scrumping was a major part of (I guess late summer) hols... near us there was a wood... at the back of the wood was a 'fenced off' orchard. We never knew, nor found out, whose orchard it was, but we used to nick loads of apples and pears. In fact our mum used to ask us to go get some from time to time
spen666
Legendary Member
so you admit to being a thief and so unscruplous that you will even steal from your family
Disgusting
;-)
Simontm
Veteran
Pool tables used to have a simple lever gate so all you had to do was put a pool cue up the slot and lift the gate for free games.
Also with some of the earlier arcade machines - Pac-Man, Track and Field etc - all you had to do is turn the machine off and on at the plug to gain a free credit
Also with some of the earlier arcade machines - Pac-Man, Track and Field etc - all you had to do is turn the machine off and on at the plug to gain a free credit
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User6179
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classic33
Leg End Member
No money went into the machine.Aye you put notes in the top and change comes oot the bottom
You remember £1 notes, don't you?
luckyfox
She's the cats pajamas
- Location
- County Durham
When I was younger and the local shop was a proper local shop, not a Spar or Sainsburys. I'd take up bags of cooking apples from the garden and the owner would give me a big bag of penny sweets. I'd take them down the river to scoff, throw the ones i didnt like into the water where the fishermen had been sitting patiently all morning for a bite and pelt it across the fields when they saw it was me. When I started to get hungry I'd walk slowly back to the shop and by that time she's made a batch of apple pies to sell in the shop. Always worth the wait an I always got the first one for free. I'd sit outside and share it with their massive golden Labrador and trundle off home full, tired and sticky faced.
Best bit is it was mainly apples from the neighbours tree!! Miserable old git used to get in a right strop if he caught me. I'd get up first thing on a weekend, shimmy up our little tree, pull the branches on his tree right over our side and rattle it like mad! What falls on our side was ours, take that misery guts!
Best bit is it was mainly apples from the neighbours tree!! Miserable old git used to get in a right strop if he caught me. I'd get up first thing on a weekend, shimmy up our little tree, pull the branches on his tree right over our side and rattle it like mad! What falls on our side was ours, take that misery guts!
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User6179
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Aye , Do you stick £1 notes in and get change for £5 ?
classic33
Leg End Member
No money went in.
Although the €1 coin is very similar in weight and size to a £1 coin. As far as ticket machines go.
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
a missed career in the legal profession then
subaqua
What’s the point
- Location
- Leytonstone
brass billett run through the lathe in an aerospace machine shop then cut up at home to go into change machines in arcades was also a good idea at the time.
