ever robbed a candy machine? (556 hits)
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Submitted by blingshizzle (View user info) at 2004-04-06 10:46:00 EDT
So I was reminiscing about college the other day, on the 45 minute commute to my hellish job. Thinking about all those memories that brighten an otherwise long, snowy, shitty day.
I was visiting friends at U of Albany, where I had transferred from only a year earlier. It was always craziness when we all got together, usually many 40oz were drank, lots of pot smoked, and sometimes fireworks launched. This particular day we'd been sitting around all day drinking, smoking, and playing Bond on 64. Of course we were hungry so we decided to head down to the vending machines that were located in the basement. One of my buddies was getting a soda and I was perusing the candy selections, when I noticed that part of the clear plastic face of the vending machine was loose from its housing. This made it very easy to squeeze my hand in and reach about 6 inches behind the plastic/glass front and just grab the candy.
After about 10 minutes of two of us looking out and two of us taking turns grabbing shit from behind the glass, we get this brilliant idea to just take the whole fucking thing off. So my friend steps back and gives it a solid kick bending the plastic and allowing us to just pull the whole 3x5 piece off. We're stuffing our pants and whatever else we can with candy while one of the kids goes back to the room and actually comes down with a garbage bag. We took EVERYTHING out of this machine, there wasn't shit left. So we all haul ass back up to their room and start enjoying the fruits of our labors.
Now our friend Dan enters, Dan's brother is an RA and informs us that we are fucking stupid because these vending machines have cameras in them, and his brother knew of someone that had been caught doing something similar. We laughed and called him gay and didn't think anything of it.
Im back to school a couple days later and get an IM from one of the kids that I was looting with. Apparently we were all caught on fucking camera that was located inside the vending machine. He said he had to go to the campus police station and watch the surveillance tape, which he said was the funniest thing he'd ever seen in his life. Our two faces took up basically the whole screen and all you could see was candy raining down around us. The vendor told this guy that we were the excellent customers, we didnt break anything, and we basically ended up purchasing his entire inventory since they made us pay for everything we took.
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Submitted by They_call_me_the_Fireman (user info) at 2004-04-07 04:19:06 EDT (#)
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Back before I grew up and became a respectable person (a Fireman), we used to take packing tape to the end of a dollar bill to form a tail (about 6 inches) and insert the bill into the vending machine. After the machine acknowledged the money was inserted, we would just pull on the tape to get the dollar back. We would then get a soda and $.50 change back. So not only did we get a free soda. We got change back too. Those were good times er uh I mean "Kicker of all ass" times.....
Submitted by taqueso (user info) at 2004-04-06 12:57:54 EDT (#)
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At a store where I worked, some lady trying to make a little money set up a soda machine and a candy machine. Now these were not normal high-security machines, more like the ones you can buy at Sam's Club (so no worries about cameras). The soda machine had a dial for each kind that you turned to dispense the drink. We quickly found out that when turning the dial to dispense a soda, you could stop turning 3/4 of the way, then turn back 1/4, and then turn it back to dispense another. and another. and another. The biggest problem was that if you didn't take the cans out, they would get stuck because too many were in the chute.
Then, we started working on the candy machine. At first, it was all about the "long stick" method and just knocking the candy out of the machine. Then, it was hitting the machine to jolt the candy out of the dispensing mechanism (the cheap machine only weighed about 40 lbs).
There were also several 25 cent candy machines (the kind that gives you a handful of M&Ms or jelly beans or whatever) put in by a different candy entrepreneur. We discovered that if you put a bicycle spoke into the dispensing mechanism after putting in the quarter, you could loosen the mechanism by turning the knob HARD against the spoke. After that bit of tweaking, you could get free candy from those by just jiggling the knob. Some people got very good at the proper jiggling technique.
The result of all this was, of course, the removal of all vending equipment.
Submitted by loki (user info) at 2004-04-06 12:12:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
There is a candy machine in the complex where I had swim practice in junior high that will drop two things down if you hit the buttons at the exact same time.
Oh yea baby, I am HARD CORE.
Submitted by blingshizzle (user info) at 2004-04-06 11:50:56 EDT (#)
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Kristen Fetish probably doenst like this story because it involves vending machines, which she blames for her 300lb fat ass. Im sorry Kristen
Submitted by I_Have_a_Kristen_Fetish (user info) at 2004-04-06 11:23:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2004-04-06 10:52:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
This girl I knew...took a coat hanger and a lighter
melted the front plastic window using the lighter against
the hanger...she then would bend the hanger to pull off
various items using the same burn hole for several weeks.