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10-year-old arrested for stealing from a fruit machine photo

You know, there are some people out there who complain when blogs write crime stories that are tenuously linked to games, but this one is just too brilliant to keep to myself. A ten-year-old British boy was arrested on Friday for climbing inside a fruit machine at an arcade and releasing the prizes inside, including mobile phones, Nintendo games and cuddly toys with cash attached to them.

Wow, talk about an inside job ... shut up, that was an awesome gag.

The would-be ninja was caught and arrested on the spot at Mirage Arcade, Mablethorpe High Street. He was voluntarily interviewed by police with the supervision of a family member, where he admitted to the theft. After receiving a stern talking-to about his criminal ways, the boy was released. 

This news is absolutely brilliant and I defy you to find a funnier story today revolving around a small boy, a fruit machine and an arcade in Mablethorpe.


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ZServ's Avatar
ZServ at 09/01/2008 07:11
whoa. thats awesome.
The Young Scot's Avatar
The Young Scot at 09/01/2008 07:13
That kid could have ended up behind Bar Bar Bars!


Wit!
Clance's Avatar
Clance at 09/01/2008 07:29
He climbed inside??

woah woah woah now. How does that work?
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Trevor McGee at 09/01/2008 07:36
Are you kidding me? This is clearly related to video games! I remember very vividly playing a mission like this in GTA and having to climb into one of those machines as Niko. This is clearly the fault of video games!
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Kif at 09/01/2008 07:44
I remember those machines with stuff like phones and DS's inside. The kid is a genius though, I bet he's done it before too. Seems like he knows what he's doing.
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Mista Smegheneghan at 09/01/2008 07:45
@Clance: he has "Mini".
Visc's Avatar
Visc at 09/01/2008 08:10
"I defy you to find a funnier story today revolving around a small boy, a fruit machine and an arcade in Mablethorpe"

Young Boy Crushed By Fruit Machine In Mablethorpe Arcade

What.. ? I thought it was funny...
Professor Pew's Avatar
Professor Pew at 09/01/2008 08:15
Are UK machines that big, or was the kid that small? :)
liam2015's Avatar
liam2015 at 09/01/2008 08:27
That is really really really awesome.
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Timmeh at 09/01/2008 08:33
This sounds more like it was one of those things with the mechanical arm inside a big perspex cabinet that challenges you to pick an item up and drop it through a trapdoor, only to find the spring on the door will resist anything up to the weight of a small child. I don't know any fruit machines that give out phones :S

It's about time someone got their own back on those damn machines.
Yuphrum's Avatar
Yuphrum at 09/01/2008 08:59
I think this is the best piece of journalism you've so far Jim!
LordGloom's Avatar
LordGloom at 09/01/2008 09:13
That comment doesn't sense.
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protomark at 09/01/2008 09:17
six sterling articles in a row?

one more, jim! take over the front page!
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Gameboi at 09/01/2008 09:48
Slightly amusing in a ten-year-old Robinhood sort of way, but tragic at the same time. Crime is crime, and that little bugger most likely got his hide tanned when he got home.
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MEE at 09/01/2008 09:53
intelligent kid.

and kim, the whole front page is yours. Congrats , youve taken over destructoid.
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MechaMonkey at 09/01/2008 10:14
@protomark

He's going for the Jimside straight, one of the highest hands in Destructoid Poker.

Also, that boy has a promising criminal future. I'll need to keep an eye on him. I'm always on the lookout for new talent...
The-Excel's Avatar
The-Excel at 09/01/2008 10:36
Who peddles fruit at an arcade?
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whormongr at 09/01/2008 10:59
@ The-Excel yeah I have never heard it called a "fruit machine" either
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AlucardX24 at 09/01/2008 11:31
If I was the owner of that arcade, I'd hire the kid to repair those machines. :)
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glimbrick at 09/01/2008 11:54
i am bout 99% sure that that picture is of an arcade in margate. apart from that, good story :P
mix's Avatar
mix at 09/01/2008 12:03
He totally hacked it!
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 09/01/2008 13:00
glimbrick:

It is an arcade in Margate, I deliberately chose it because I come from Kent and visit Thanet often.
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atastysammich at 09/01/2008 13:15
Good thing nobody was hurt, or they just might summon You Know Who out of... forced retirement? Whatever happened to our best friend the lawyer, anyway?
Syn's Avatar
Syn at 09/01/2008 13:27
Don't be fooled, this is VIDEO GAME related. They just managed to quell the part where he whipped out his Buster Sword and BFG 9000 and wasted half the customers, before exposing himself and slapping a baby, and then trying to hide in the fruit machine.
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TrailerParkJesus at 09/01/2008 18:38
I didn't know mobile phones were considered fruit? Oh you Brits!!
Cube's Avatar
Cube at 09/01/2008 18:48
What the hell is a fruit machine?!

I don't see how anybody can fit inside one of these I cant even get my arm in vending machines when I pay most the time.












and who the hell puts cell phones, nintendo games and stuffed toys in a machine that keeps food cold?!
Leathersoup's Avatar
Leathersoup at 09/01/2008 22:56
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Dexter345 at 09/02/2008 19:19
...A fruit machine?
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Zodiac Eclipse at 11/21/2008 11:06
@Leathersoup Thanks for the vid, that was hilarious. I especially love the part where the older kid trys to tell the mom that the little one is in the machine and you can tell the mom thinks he's full of shit and just walks on.

Can't wait until my son gets a little older.
Zodiac Eclipse's Avatar
Zodiac Eclipse at 11/21/2008 11:06
@Leathersoup Thanks for the vid, that was hilarious. I especially love the part where the older kid trys to tell the mom that the little one is in the machine and you can tell the mom thinks he's full of shit and just walks on.

Can't wait until my son gets a little older.
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tcrpgfan at 12/15/2008 05:59
my question is, how did the kid hack the fruit machine.
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