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Seized slot machines dumped and crushed
Destruction of 144 machines began Wednesday and continues today. The video slots were taken from a local game room and will end up in the county landfill.
By JONATHAN ABEL
Published August 4, 2006
BROOKSVILLE - Atop a mountain of trash at the county landfill, sea gulls have moved in on the video slot machines that seniors used to play.
Wednesday and today, the Hernando Sheriff's Office will destroy all 144 of the machines that once flashed and whirred at Charles Bartlett's Spring Hill game room.
"It's like seizing crack cocaine," said prosecutor Mark Simpson. "Once it's determined that it is cocaine, it has the label stuck to it that it's contraband. You can't do anything with it other than destroy it."
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A truck came by to scoop up the ATM-sized devices with names like "Gamera the Invincible" and carry them to the county landfill.
There they were trampled by an 80,000-pound tractor with studded steel wheels and a broad blade.
