Jonathon Morris, U.S. Army Ranger Ret. and Rowan County Sheep Baron
♦ While smashing windows and spray painting graffiti and gang tags ranks in the forefront of vandalism in Salisbury, N.C., very near the top is vending machine vandalism. The Bury has bragging rights once again.
Coin operated machines have long been targeted by petty thieves looking for a low yield score or by irate customers cheated of candy or a soda–or just someone hostile with a desire to take it out on a machine. Who hasn’t seen someone taking licks at a soda machine or a newspaper dispenser or placing their hands up a release hatch in search of half fallen candy or a soda? Every year the vending machine industry loses millions in vandalism. Good heavens even the poor guy driving his vendor route in the Bury is openseason.
Here are some choice YouTube videos of the vandals in their “war against the machine” and how they get around a vending machine’s mechanisms. While many vending machine vandals in the Bury are nothing more than mindless hoodlums armed with a rock, some are scientifically minded geeks who follow their devious inclinations.
Vandalism of a gas station pop machine:
Chunky brutes a machine:
The alleged science of beating a snack machine by an x-pert:
Go Bury!
