The irony of the pinball TILT sensor, at least in my personal experience, is that if you don't understand what the "TILT!" indicator on the backboard means - which childhood me and my aunt, trying to play a game of pinball in probably a Pizza Hut in the late 80s and stymied by a mysterious "TILT" light, clearly did not - is that one might misinterpret it as an instruction to attempt tilting the machine, thereby facilitating exactly the sort of damaging behavior which the malfunctioning sensor was intended to guard against.