When you put in your dollar and it doesn't give you what you punched, what do you do? Do you just accept the loss, or do you alert someone?
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What do you do when vending machines steal your money?
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Depends. If it's at work, I'll just tell the guy who operates the machines for us and he'll give me my money back or fix it. If it's a random public place, I'll say a few curse words and then just eat the loss.
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If at all possible I will go out of my way to get paper and marker and tape a sign on the machine that it is a rip off. I tape it over the coin slot.
If not I just kick the shit out of it as if it could feel pain.
If not I just kick the shit out of it as if it could feel pain.
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Change is inevitable. Unless it’s from a vending machine.
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Shale wrote:If not I just kick the shit out of it as if it could feel pain.
Careful. Sometimes they fight back.
(12 December 1998, Canada) A man crushed beneath a vending machine while trying to shake loose a free soda? If you thought it happened only in Urban Legends you're wrong!
Kevin, a 19-year-old Quebec student, killed himself at Bishop's University while shaking a 420-kilogram Coke machine. He had been celebrating the end of final exams with friends. He died beneath the soda machine, asphyxiated, with a blood alcohol level slightly over the legal driving limit.
Kevin's last act was committed in vain. "Even as it fell over, the vending machine did not let out a single can," the coroner reported. Soda-holics take note! The report also states that toppled vending machines have caused at least 35 deaths and 140 injuries in the last twenty years.
For those with enquiring minds, I refer you to a website dedicated to the quest to clear Kevin's name. His family questions the official version on their website, aptly named cokemachineaccidents.com (currently ofline but Archived Here.) They recently sued Coca-Cola, two related companies, and Bishop's University for "gross carelessness." Their website expos� proffers several explanations for why Kevin's death was not his own fault: shaking coke machines "was common practice at the University," and anyway, unknown persons might have crushed Kevin with the vending machine in a bizarre murder, as it "would be difficult for one person to move" the machine.
In response, a spokesperson for Coke said that Canadian machines are now labeled with a warning that "tipping or rocking may cause injury or death." They have also installed anti-theft devices in newer models to keep people from obtaining free drinks.
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If there's someone to tell about it I do, but if not then just yell out "FUCK" and walk away mad.
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Cuss like a sailor. But usually I don't try to get it back. They tell you most of the time that it's not theirs, here's a number, blah blah blah. But the reaction is never silent lol
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I don't do anything about it, I sure as hell don't alert someone - that's a damn waste of time. It's a candy bar for God's sake, not the Holy Grail, people need to get over it!
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Chris wrote:When you put in your dollar and it doesn't give you what you punched, what do you do? Do you just accept the loss, or do you alert someone?
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Roll my eyes, maybe utter out a 4-letter word or two, accept that it cheated me and then walk away. It's annoying as hell, but not THAT serious.
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Nystyle709 wrote:Depends. If it's at work, I'll just tell the guy who operates the machines for us and he'll give me my money back or fix it. If it's a random public place, I'll say a few curse words and then just eat the loss.
Same, if its at my work, i can get my money back easy..
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