Skeggie on fire

**gb74** · 17th August 2007, 01:32 PM

Apparently a large swath of the front at Skegness went up in flames last night.
Two of the big arcades gone

After the awful weather so far this year, would it be too scandalous of me to say the words 'insurance' and 'job' in that order????

**kidgloves** · 17th August 2007, 08:05 PM

STOP PRESS EYE WITNESS REPORT !!!

Yes really, I had the fortune/misfortune to be in Skeggy yesterday and today and my it was a good show alright.
It all kicked off about 11.15 last night when the crowds started gathering on the main seafront road where loads of billowing smoke was coming out of the hotel. Police put up a quick cordon, everyone was shipped out of the pubs (with drinks) and it just got worse from there.
Was a bit worse for wear from Jack Daniels but still couldn't believe it.
Most shocking was getting up this morning and walking down to the front to see the thing still smouldering/burning in places but half the building had gone from the night before. Fire brigade had emptied the swimming pool and a couple of lakes dousing the fucker.
Great shame about the arcade, was in there earlier and it was a nice place, well kept and had a good feel about it. I was playing a Grand Golden Game which was full from the off but just did a flat £35 with no bottom reel bars..so I was planning to play it again today

Weird thing was drinking in all the bars just a couple of hours earlier particularly one which I remember being a bit dodgy last time we visited...the d.j. played from a 'boat' next to the bar...it had only just had a complete refit and been open 2 weeks, the place smelled new..completely gone now, but the Shark Raving Mad in there was full and had my pants down for about £35 before I gave up in favour of beer and took a Mega Streak. On a different feature the bastard even looped the board landing on streak add twice so me thinking it was the free board but then did me on a ? when Mega Streak was lit so I'm glad that fucker burned.
The place was awash with chuzzy bar x's..all single zero led bank displays so lots of ready ones if you know what I mean, none did great streaks, £75 was best but mostly £25's. Got to watch those classic bars which show the same but offer the streak through unlimited nudges instead of the roll in though.
Bar x 7 Magics were friendly enough...a few nice touches, no bad ones. Some weird settings...one on 50p play with wins on £5 for X's £10 for bars and £35 for 7's, you'd think it would give th X's quite often on that setting but not much obvious difference.
I caned a bit on Mega Slot, always fall for this piece of shit when someone has played a decent wedge through and not got the Mega Slot feature, all the time for me these days it seems to be £100-£200 in for a feature that gives £40-£60 followed by another quick feature for about the same that still leaves you down. Pah.
An Elvis S16 gave a nice silver pot of £253 followed next credit by 4 Jukeboxes for £70 off a £20...and a Monty Python gave £100 with the first 3 reels full of Holy Grail symbols...nearly shat myself when I saw them drop as it rarely stops and doesn't give the full house for the £500. Pah again.
Lots of other 'unburned' arcades that were in the vicinity of ground zero were shut for safety reasons so it was a bit more obvious who the local players were when they were all crammed into the arcades that were open on the seafront.
Some chav spouting out every time he got a golden game feature when it was in flash hold mood, "I've got 4 features off the last 7 presses" - the change attendant who he was talking to didn't look impressed, I think chav-u-like really thought he was his mate.
The JDW had an impressive array of Red's..the only place really that had them in Skegness...Grub-a-dub-dub..Vortex and Holey Moley, all on £35 and all exceedingly burned (in the player sense this time).
I managed to 'deal' before my box presented Mega Streak no less than 4 times during our stay from Beardy's clan...my worst run of luck ever on these with regard to making the wrong decision at the wrong time.
Pubs on the whole were pretty crap, all that was worth playing was dead...2 Power 5's but in the mood you would expect them to be in of late...came home about £60 up but the free pyro entertainment was well worth being in the right place at the right time to see.