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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?

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.

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. blank stare @ you

Change is inevitable. Unless it’s from a vending machine.

Shale wrote:: If not I just kick the shit out of it as if it could feel pain.

Careful. Sometimes they fight back.

Quote :: (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.

If there's someone to tell about it I do, but if not then just yell out "FUCK" and walk away mad.

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

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!

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?

What do you do when vending machines steal your money? Deep%20fire%20top%20grenade

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.

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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