slot machines!

[smoking joking]

howdy howdy
Ok how about this idea I have heard about 3 lakes in my area that have slot machines in them. Here is how the story goes the fed's were coming and everyone knew about it so they had to get rid of the slot machines that they had in the bars. So one lake's story says they put them in trucks and drove out on the ice and cut a hole and dumped them in! If this is true there should be a big pile of them in one spot. Now the question is.

1. Would they be worth chasing Like how much is an old slot machine worth, rotten off the bottom of a lake? does anyonwe know please chime in. I don't think they would have left any $ in them!

2. How to find them This one lake is very small and I have been told about where they dumped them. I was thinking a towable mag behind the boat then drop a fish camera check it out and if it is the slots scuba duba dive!

Now does this sound like a plan? Or am I just treasure crazy? I have all winter to think about it.
I can get a fish cam no problem It is just the mag that is going to hurt!
Whatdayathink?
Smokin Joe
P.S. If you can please pray that I find my dog I was in the hospital and he went missing I am going to look big time on fri for him he is blind and half deff lost and starving to death and I must find him I live alone and he is my everything. Don't worry if I find him he WILL get fitted with a tracking coller. Must stop typing eye's full of some strange fluid can't see

[majakldragon]

Hopefully you will find your dog. Ours was found tied around a tree after he went missing for 3 weeks. he had no food, no water other than rain, and it was below freezing. A hunter found him and brought him home to us. He had lost a lot of weight so he was down to about 30lbs. This is not good for a malamute but he gained it all back quickly. Dogs are resilient and resourceful.

On the slots, most are made out of stainless steel I think, or at least the body is. The innards are various plastics and metals. There may still be a few coins in it but probably not much since the tossers would have kept what they could.

Now as to wether they could be recovered. Well this would depend on what your lake bottoms were made of. If its real silty they would sink like the proverbial rock. If its rocky its probably still there. Would you recognize it as such?, probably not. Even in a freshwater lake things grow on stuff lost or tossed in the water. I figure there are plants and little crustaceans that have made this slot machine their home.

If you really think their in there and you have the time and resources, I say go for it, whatcha got to loose besides a little time?

My husband was just telling me about a story he heard in Toledo. It seems the city was cracking down on gambling, slots specifically, and they were either dumped in lake Erie or The Maumee river which is fed by lake Erie. Now these 2 water sources are filled with zebra muscles and they attach to anything and everything. The slots supposedly dumped at this time would not have stood the test of time and would have rusted away. The dump location was supposedly a secret and there has been no word of recovery or even attempted recovery to this date.

[Ric-san]

I read a story about something like this a while back...cant remember where, but i found this on the net...

geneva, wi:

In the roaring twenties, gambling and booze were available in the bars. Then in the thirties, prohibition stopped many of these practices in public, but the speak-easies were prominent on both the south and north shores of Lake Como and along roadside bars on Highways 12 and 36. Many gangsters and mob members could be found on the north and south shores of Lake Como due to our proximity to Chicago. Both Al Capone and Bugs Moran, opposing gang members from Chicago, could be found in our area. Gambling flourished also and was not curtailed until the election of Oscar Rennebohm as Governor of Wisconsin. The Como Hotel (currently the French Country Inn) was a very popular place, with lots of drinking and gambling, cards and slot machines. It has been rumored there are many slot machines at the bottom of Lake Como having been dumped there during a police raid on the Como Hotel.

Rick

[EBCIII]

Good luck on finding your dog. I will keep him in my prayers.

As to the slots? Heck why not. Just another challange, good luck, Beale.

[usmc2145]

Hope the dog gets home. When the made the slots the old ones they have a brass tube that holds $40.00 and the money tray is tin the back is steel the bottom oak and the front is cast and the wt is about 75-100 pounds let me know I can tell you more if needed based on 1937 mills.

[Jason in Enid]

See if you can find a die-hard fisherman. Personal side-scan sonars only cost about $1000-$1500 and some of these guys use them. The amount of detail they show can be incredible. You could definately pick out a pile of slot machines.

Second, if you find them I'm a diver. I'd love to come up and help you recover them! If they are very deep at all, then there won't be anything growing on them. The algae only lives down to around 15-20 feet. After that, there's not enough light.

[Ric-san]

Good subject...only problem I see is these bastards are HEAVY and aren't in my humble opinion just going to be sitting there all lit up and ready to be removed from the muck that they have settled into...again, just my $.02

Rick

[SkateCreek]

my .02¢ says the slots aren't worth the effort....

As for the dog, let's all hope that someone has adopted him in the meantime.

flyers, check the humane society (dog pound), local vets, etc.,
just get the word out there and I am sure he will be home soon!

I can't imagine how you must feel about it, but I have a good feeling that
you will be reunited soon.... it will take some effort though.

best regards.

[HOWDY]

i can't imagine this being a productive adventure. first of all as previously stated, slot machines are HEAVY, and full of water which will at least double the weight. i can't imagine them dumping them without removing the money first, so at best you might find a handfull of coins. sounds like too much work to me.

[smartfox]

If I were you I would try to rent or call some friends with cameras to see of they are there and if they are try to get them out with your boat.

If the machine is old then all the coins if there are any will all be silver. Also there cound be a possibility where either these people could of been in a rush or forgot to take out the money because of nervousness from getting arrested and just threw the slots with the coins or not taken all of them out.

All I'm saying is that it is worth a shot and not to mention that it would definitely make top story here on tq. I doi not think anyone could top that one at least for a while.