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Have you ever wondered why some vending machines are caged in?
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:47 pm
I was talking to a safety policy formulater today, and I was surprised at the answer. It is not to protect the machine from being broken into, it's to prevent fatality. You see, at least 50 Americans die each year when they shake a vending machine to the point where it topples over and falls on them.
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Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
What a way to die 
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
BS...the only time I see them caged in are in areas where theft is more common and/or the machines are not in a secure location.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Damn. The more you know
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:50 pm to Golfer
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BS...the only time I see them caged in are in areas where theft is more common and/or the machines are not in a secure location.
Agreed. Just PC bullshite.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:51 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Have you ever wondered why some vending machines are caged in?
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:52 pm to Golfer
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BS...the only time I see them caged in are in areas where theft is more common and/or the machines are not in a secure location.
Which would cause more people to shake the machine and die?
I'd guess the cage thing is probably really to prevent theft but they say its for safety just to be PC and prevent the rustling of any jimmies.
This post was edited on 2/20/14 at 5:53 pm
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:52 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I don't know about vending machines but I remember seeing one guy in New Mexico that died from an ATM being dropped on his head by his hooker gf after they stole it.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:55 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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was talking to a safety policy formulater today, and I was surprised at the answer. It is not to protect the machine from being broken into, it's to prevent fatality. You see, at least 50 Americans die each year when they shake a vending machine to the point where it topples over and falls on them.
Yeah, wrong....they cage em to keep them from getting broken into.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Scruffy doubts that is the reason. Also, vending machine related deaths are actually ~ 10 per year.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 5:57 pm to JG77056
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I don't know about vending machines but I remember seeing one guy in New Mexico that died from an ATM being dropped on his head by his hooker gf after they stole it.
Liar. You didn't see that. I know because I saw the guy that did see it die in some kind of factory.
This post was edited on 2/20/14 at 5:59 pm
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:27 pm to Golfer
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BS...the only time I see them caged in are in areas where theft is more common and/or the machines are not in a secure location.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:40 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Maybe from his perspective of calculating legal actions and possible costs related to that, but yeah, it still relates to trashier areas where people are more likely to shake the machines. I'd bet food and candy losses are nothing compared to possible legal losses, but if all they were for is to prevent them from falling over, they wouldn't be as elaborate as they are, and they'd be everywhere - probably just bolts to the wall
So it covers both, and theft is a lot more common, but the deaths cost more. That might be what your friend was saying.
So it covers both, and theft is a lot more common, but the deaths cost more. That might be what your friend was saying.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:41 pm to Golfer
Agreed
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
guy in my HS class had one fall on him after shaking it and it broke his leg
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:48 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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You see, at least 50 Americans die each year when they shake a vending machine to the point where it topples over and falls on them.
I don't see. There were only 37 deaths between 1978 and 1995. The general number of vending machines out there is shrinking, so I'd have trouble believing that the number of deaths per year has suddenly jumped higher than the total number of deaths in a 17 year period.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
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Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:49 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Yes that is exactly why at most every rest stop you stop at on road trips the vending machines are all caged....to prevent people hurting themselves and not at all to prevent theft in an area that isn't monitored 24/7.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:54 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
One of the funniest things in high school was when my buddy put his shoulder into a vending machine to get a girls candy unstuck. Except he went straight through the plexiglass.
Posted on 2/20/14 at 6:56 pm to Golfer
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BS...the only time I see them caged in are in areas where theft is more common and/or the machines are not in a secure location.
Yep, your safety guy was just scared of being called raciss
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