By California law, you can have a slot machine in your house but it has to be at least 25 years old. Jasinsky knows something that old can cost you. "Yeah, it's an expensive hobby," he said.

"Thinking he would donate them to a charity group, he paid £20 for the pair and then found he had inadvertently become an antique slot machine owner when his charity said 'no thanks'. "It was the ...