Fruit machine on holiday
I was on holiday a few years ago, it was in a place were there was bugger all to do at night so we ended up sitting in a bar, every night for two weeks.

Right at the end of the bar was a fruit machine, it was on of those 50p a go ones, and it had a £500 jackpot.

Every time we went up to get a round of drinks we'd put the change into this machine and just hit the button and walk back to the table with the drinks.

So there we were on the third night happily drinking and chatting away, I go up, get a round and put the change into the machine and walk back to the table. I had just sat down when the barman shouted me back to the bar, the machine had spat out some winnings, it was a token for £200, result, that covered the drinks bill for a bit.

We carried on doing this with every round, and at the end of about the tenth day or so, we got shouted back again, only this time we'd hit the jackpot, £500, we collected the winnings, and put another 50p in the machine, which then decided that it would activate the hold feature, we held all three wheels, and won another £500!

We collected that, and never put another penny into that machine. We were told later by the barman that it hadn't paid out anything in the two years that he'd been working there!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Thu 7 May 2009, 15:36, Reply)