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SEE? THIS is why the laws should be changed!
If you're stupid enough to be trying to steal from a vending machine, by SHAKING the thing, and tips over do to your own actions, and kills you, you DESERVE it. The Coke machine did the human race a FAVOR by delecting your idiot genes.
Injury suffered during the commission of a crime, either by cut glass, or slipping on the floor, or being attacked by an enraged homeowner, should be classified 'tough shit' and unsue-able for.
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Okay, on the one hand I can understand some of the anguish. A loved-one was crushed to death by a vending machine where the parties involved knew that they were defective and prone to tipping over.
But on the other hand, I agree completely (although maybe not as strongly) with First of Two. The guy was in the act of committing a crime. He was doing this while intoxicated. It was his own fault for aggravating the situation.
I've known since I was like ten years old that you don't mess with vending machines! I kicked a machine that took my quarter once and wouldn't give it back. Momma Siegfried whacked me upside the head and said, "Don't do that! What are you, retarded?"
I don't know. Something in the back of mind says you just don't mess with a five-hundred pound machine. That's the same voice that tells me not to go into a seedy roadhouse and taunt the Hell's Angels with comments like, "I had your mom last night and she was sweeeeeeet!"
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I got a better story for you. Once a pun a time some stupid kid trespassed into someone else's property. While he was there he decided it would be fun to stick a lit match down into the person's car's gas tank. Not surprisingly, it exploded, either killing or injuring the tresspasser. I'm not sure which. Anyways. The family sued the people whos car exploded in front of the kids face. The family won.
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These guys are better off in the Darwin Awards.
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MIB: The Judge who awarded the settlement to the family of the er...... "victim" needs brain surgury for sure. Any sane judge would have thrown out the case then retire to his chambers to expel a fit of laughter.
The owners of the car should sue the family back for damage of property (their car), punitive damages, mental anguish over loss of car etc. etc. etc. So if they win, things would be even.
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The company could just secure the machines. It's not that hard.
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No. Let evolution take its proper course. Let the stupid get squashed. The world will be a better place for it, trust me.
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You would think that in a university dorm, where students are drinking, the university would realize that, hey, drunks do stupid things, let's put up a "L" bracket and hold that machine in place ...
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The University cannot predict everything. At my university, the only vending machines that are secured are those in the dorms. Every vending machine warns students about not shaking the machine to get a free pop or whatever as it can (in big bold letters) TIP OVER.
And it made the local news too. Bleah!!!
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Well, university dorms are breeding grounds for stupidity. Trust me, I've lived in them for four years and even worked in them for two years. So many stories that prove natural selection is a good thing.
Let's see, there's the woman who had a snake in her room (against the rules) and decided to throw a towel over the terrarium instead of just shutting the lamp off. Towel caught fire, she threw it under her bed.
Then there were the two guys who decided to smoke marijuana in their room. They lit up but forgot to turn their oscillating fan off. The fan blew the smoke straight into the smoke detector.
Then there was the guy in the room right above me who snuck in some firecrackers (big no-no). He set them down on his desk near his lit candle (big no-no). The firecrackers light up, so in a panic he throws them into his microwave.
My university used to have the 1980's built soft drink machines. They got replaced by new fancy models a couple years ago when Coca-Cola became the official soft drink supplier for the university.
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How on earth do you through something into a microwave in panic? In the bin, yes. Under the bed, I can understand. Out the window seems logical. But into the microwave? Crazy.
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