Paragon Scam - Help Needed
If they were doing something dodgy I doubt they'd have stayed for the carvery. I sometimes buy a meal if I'm feeling a bit guilty about the amount taken out, although in a Mitchell & Butler my guilt is limited. I am no star player but I can pot about 7 games on the Paragon and a Carvery is as likely as anywhere.
story did sound a bit strange but unless the member of a staff was a complete saddo there is likely to be a grain of truthe in it.
When the big gamesnet scam was operating many years ago I trailed a gang of three people around the Gatwick area who would empty them leaving £1 unplayed.I eventually caught up with them at a Lingfield Brewers Fayre where I watched them flush the machine of its contents and then settled down to a meal next to the machine.
Fruit Machine players tend to be tougher,rougher and have the front/cheek to get away with anything that us wimps (in the main) wouldnt.
When the big gamesnet scam was operating many years ago I trailed a gang of three people around the Gatwick area who would empty them leaving £1 unplayed.I eventually caught up with them at a Lingfield Brewers Fayre where I watched them flush the machine of its contents and then settled down to a meal next to the machine.
Fruit Machine players tend to be tougher,rougher and have the front/cheek to get away with anything that us wimps (in the main) wouldnt.
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ben twilly
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do you know how much cctv footage actually isnt legal?? ther is very very strict guidelines around what is acceptable in a prosecution, what they do with cctv footage is, show the police then they try to get you to admit to something with it, then its used as "supplementary" evidence, but not ACTUAL evidence, due to the nature of how cctv is stored.
for footage from a shopping centre to be vaild , it MUST be stored onto a hard drive, with no editing facilities on the machines, also it MUST be on a LOCKED device, to which there is 2 keys one for the shopping centre, and the other held by the local police station,in order to remove the hardrive. FACT. not to mention a whole string of other rules set out.
and 35 minutes of footage of this seemingly innocent bloke playing a machine/plugging whatever, a quizzer can be emptied in less than a minute. pure crap, what we had here is the original person, had seen someone winning a few quid, and seen what he was doing and wanted to know how to do it.
for footage from a shopping centre to be vaild , it MUST be stored onto a hard drive, with no editing facilities on the machines, also it MUST be on a LOCKED device, to which there is 2 keys one for the shopping centre, and the other held by the local police station,in order to remove the hardrive. FACT. not to mention a whole string of other rules set out.
and 35 minutes of footage of this seemingly innocent bloke playing a machine/plugging whatever, a quizzer can be emptied in less than a minute. pure crap, what we had here is the original person, had seen someone winning a few quid, and seen what he was doing and wanted to know how to do it.