Cheating a coin chute? Is this possible?

A ring in Norwich, NY was making brass slugs the same size as a quarter, plus it would bypass the magnet. They were found in many machines. An investigation revealed it was high school students in shop class. They made the punch die and knocked out quite a load before they were caught. Years ago, they would put a piece of Scotch tape over the hole in a zinc washer and make calls for free on Ma Bell.
 
for most things there are illegal gimmicks to defeat them. little kids just get reprimanded for doing it and grownups get a citation or a court date. as its called stealing.

some will cheat the pop machine. and get mad at the pool room owner who over charges him for time.
isnt that ti for tat.
 
Ah, the scores when we were kids! The shopping center had a coin shop move in. They had a cigar box full of coins, your choice, fifteen cents. Some were exactly the size and weight of quarters so a little guy I knew was buying "quarters" for fifteen cents. You then bought a coke from the machine and got ten cents change! He also toted a church key and plastic straw. The machines had cokes that laid down so with a slight tilt half or a bit more was lost, big mess so a kid got six ounces or so of free coke! He took up shoplifting and was headed towards real trouble so I quit hanging with him. Last I knew he was killing bugs for a living.

I knew a few people that would raid the newspaper machines for a few extra papers and not fight over the comics. I accidently grabbed two papers and stuck another quarter in, opened and closed the door. I guess a life of crime ain't for me! I do have to admit I thought a friend was pretty slick. He was on his Harley, out of gas in Houston, a few hundred miles from home. He walked the sidewalk downtown until he found a quarter and hit the newspaper machine, cleaned it out. Then he stood on the corner hawking papers until he had enough gas money to make it home.

He was a transporter of pot in his '58 Chevy too. Had it set up to haul 100 keys and be almost impossible to detect. Worked great until somebody in Mexico talked him into toting a one key sample after he was loaded. Got busted for the key, they ripped the car apart and found two hundred more. My friend did real time. RIP Bobby! Despite a slight outlaw bent he was one of the best people I ever knew.

Hu
 
Now we need a thread on “what’s the best bar table to steal from”. And then “ where did all the tables go that I wanted to steal from?”.

I’m starting to feel sorry for this guy Justin. I thought he was just a troll but I think it’s more than that. Kind of sad. Im going to try and wait to reply to a thread that makes sense or is actually a wise question. What’s the over/under on how long it will take for me to post in one of his threads again?
 
Z-Nole said:
Now we need a thread on “what’s the best bar table to steal from”. And then “ where did all the tables go that I wanted to steal from?”.

I’m starting to feel sorry for this guy Justin. I thought he was just a troll but I think it’s more than that. Kind of sad. Im going to try and wait to reply to a thread that makes sense or is actually a wise question. What’s the over/under on how long it will take for me to post in one of his threads again?
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A justin thread that makes sense, boy that'll be the day.

Your right though this is sad, but I don't feel for him, he just spits on the forum and the admins at will.
 
fastone371 said:
You come up with the best threads!!!!!!! (said no one ever)
Maybe tomorrow we can discuss how to break into a locked cue cabinet so we can steal all of the cues on display.
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On YouTube there is a channel called the Lock Picking Lawyer:


He gets through locks with everything from a swift yank to a stick of thermite. For standard key locks, it takes him less than a minute to pick them. A tire iron would be faster if you don't care about the cabinet.

And as far as the coin mechanism on the table goes, it's obviously better to pick the lock than just cheat the mechanism because then you can get all the coins in the box.
 
Bob Jewett said:
On YouTube there is a channel called the Lock Picking Lawyer:


He gets through locks with everything from a swift yank to a stick of thermite. For standard key locks, it takes him less than a minute to pick them. A tire iron would be faster if you don't care about the cabinet.

And as far as the coin mechanism on the table goes, it's obviously better to pick the lock than just cheat the mechanism because then you can get all the coins in the box.
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Most safes are not very secure, especially those big gun safes. They give an illusion to be insecure but if you look on YouTube you can bust them open most of them with a crowbar.

I have a safe similar to what you see in the movies and pawn shops built over 100 years ago. I was told by a locksmith it would be much harder to get into and one of the new safes.

I have a set of picks and I can get into most pin style locks in just a minute. Some of those safes you buy like an office Depot you can open them with just a powerful magnet held in the right place.
 
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Back in the '70s, I managed a full service gas station open 24/7. Finding 3rd shift help was no easy feat. I would take what I could get and some were pretty sketchy. Never had an employee leave with the cash, but did have one clean out the vending machines that were operated by an outside company.
The vending route operator comes in one morning, opens the cigarette and candy machines and they were empty. No coins, no product. hTe locks were not tampered with.
He nor I could figure it out and he was pissed!

These were those old machines with the glass front displaying the product and under each selection was a handle attached to a metal rod that you would pull straight back towards you to release the cigarettes or candy bar of choice that would drop down to the bottom with a satisfying thud.

Well this enterprising thief, in the middle of the night, turned the machines on their tops, and all the change fell out of the coin boxes and landed on the inside tops of the machines.
He then turned the machines upright and the change fell down to the bottom where your purchased item is retrieved.
Then he took the money and bought what he could with what change he had.
Repeat over and over until everything was gone.

I didn't need to fire him. When he found out who controlled the vending routes in Detroit, he was in the wind, leaving his final pay to settle up.
 
jimmyco said:
Back in the '70s, I managed a full service gas station open 24/7. Finding 3rd shift help was no easy feat. I would take what I could get and some were pretty sketchy. Never had an employee leave with the cash, but did have one clean out the vending machines that were operated by an outside company.
The vending route operator comes in one morning, opens the cigarette and candy machines and they were empty. No coins, no product. hTe locks were not tampered with.
He nor I could figure it out and he was pissed!

These were those old machines with the glass front displaying the product and under each selection was a handle attached to a metal rod that you would pull straight back towards you to release the cigarettes or candy bar of choice that would drop down to the bottom with a satisfying thud.

Well this enterprising thief, in the middle of the night, turned the machines on their tops, and all the change fell out of the coin boxes and landed on the inside tops of the machines.
He then turned the machines upright and the change fell down to the bottom where your purchased item is retrieved.
Then he took the money and bought what he could with what change he had.
Repeat over and over until everything was gone.

I didn't need to fire him. When he found out who controlled the vending routes in Detroit, he was in the wind, leaving his final pay to settle up.
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I used to sit on top of the cigarette machine in a cool corner waiting for customers. About once a month I pushed off a little too hard when somebody came in and the machine fell on it's face. Coins always fell out, sometimes cigarettes. I just returned it all.

Funniest cigarette machine story, the cops stopped a guy dragging one down the middle of Airline HWY in the wee hours, chained behind his truck. Airline is a usually busy four lane. When they stopped him he said the machine had robbed him, three times! He had a serious nicotine Jones on and was going to get his cigarettes and the rest of his change back! Back then the cigarette machines had the highest priced cigarettes in town plus if it wasn't a fast moving brand they would stay in the machine until they got full of weevils. Stale and dry as dust. But in the days before twenty-four hour stores and stations everywhere they were the only late night choices.

Hu
 
jaime_lion said:
So I am wondering if it is possible to cheat a coin chute? Here is a video I am wondering if this is fake youtube or legit? Just saying this to hopefully avoid comments and such I am posting this for knowledge. I am not condoning any such action.


Maybe someone who owns a coin op bar box could give this a try?
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You need to stop and think for two seconds before you post things. Everyone in the world is aware that any older coin operated device was susceptible. If you would take those two seconds you would realize

You are going to look bad no matter how youbtry to spin it

It adds zero value to the forum

You will get caught up in it and start sharing even more of you thoughts that shouldn't be said aloud


Seriously, get tose impulses in check and stop posting everything that comes to mind. We all have fleeting thoughts like "I should strangle that guy who screwed up my Taco Bell order", "I wonder what would happen if I opened the emergency exit mid flight", "I should post a video about theft on a pool site because the example was a clothes washer and kinda like a pool table and I am obsessed with saving quarters"....but we stop ourselves.



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That coin/straw trick still works even on more modern day mechanisms of its type. Problem is the straws are "single use" and cost .25 each. I sell them in bags of 250 an 500. I take PayPal F&F, contact me and save a fortune on the tables. (y)
 
HNTFSH said:
That coin/straw trick still works even on more modern day mechanisms of its type. Problem is the straws are "single use" and cost .25 each. I sell them in bags of 250 an 500. I take PayPal F&F, contact me and save a fortune on the tables. (y)
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That’s no fun. What happens when we turn you upside down? Anything fall out?
 
Anyone remember the ready made Connecticut Turnpike token swindle?

In the mid-1980's, the tolls on the Connecticut Turnpike were 35 cents each. You could either pay cash or buy tokens for 35 cents each which enabled you to go to the express lane where the coin deposit took both coins and turnpike tokens. Fair enough ....

... until someone noticed that the Connecticut Turnpike token looked nearly identical to and was the exact same size as the New York City subway token in use at the time. At the time, subway tokens cost 75 cents. As it turned out, the Connecticut Turnpike token worked in the coin slots of the New York City subway, so people began to buy them up at 35 cents for use in the subway. New York City caught on fairly quickly, but for a while, more than a few exploited this unique opportunity.
 
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sjm said:
Anyone remember the ready made Connecticut Turnpike token swindle?

In the mid-1980's, the tolls on the Connecticut Turnpike were 35 cents each. You could either pay cash or buy tokens for 35 cents each which enabled you to go to the express lane where the coin deposit took both coins and turnpike tokens. Fair enough ....

... until someone noticed that the Connecticut turnpike token looked nearly identical to and was the exact same size as the New York City subway token in use at the time. At the time, subway tokens cost 75 cents. As it turned out, the Connecticut Turnpike token worked in the coin slots of the New York City subway, so people began to buy them up at 35 cents for use in the subway. New York City caught on fairly quickly, but for a while, more than a few exploited this unique opportunity.
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That’s funny. What’s even funnier (in a sad way) is I just got my hertz Toll by Plate bill for renting a car two weeks ago in Dallas. $19 freaking dollars!! It’s all by plate so you can’t pay cash if you wanted. Wish I had some of those $.35 coins that worked!
 
couldnthinkof01 said:
When I was a kid we used to have a friend that worked at the batting cages. To operate the machine they had punched out sheet metal the size of a quarter. He would hook us up with 100s of them.
They also fit in the cigarette and pop machines 😉
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We caught a guy doing that at one of the first U.S. Bar Table Championships in Reno. He was using the slugs in all his matches and by the process of elimination (emptying the tables after each round) we got him. He was staying there with his wife and daughter, and the casino called the police because he was cheating a coin operated machine in a casino, which is a felony in Nevada. He was very scared and very apologetic of course. We kicked him out of the tournament and he forfeited his entry fees in both events and the prize money he had coming (yes he was in the money in the 9-Ball). The hotel kicked him out as well and only because we decided not to press charges was he spared any jail time. Never saw him again at any of my tournaments in SoCal. I remember him and his name. Some things you don't forget.
 
there were some cheap foreign coins the same size and weight as a quarter. kids would sell them for a dime.

always got caught as they got greedy and kept coming back to the same machines.
 
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