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I've got Chem II early morning with 2 of my high school friends, then we part ways and they head off to Intro to Stats and I take English Comp II. I'd been bitching all morning about being sleepy and caffeine deprived, so I stopped at the Full Throttle machine outside the building on campus that houses most language and writing classes.
In goes two dollars, out comes a can of Full Throttle. As I started to walk away, I heard more clunking that could have definitely been another can coming down, but I dismissed it as the noises the machine usually makes after dispensing a can. Then I heard it again. I turned around and walked back to see the machine just spitting out cans of Full Throttle; the goth dude sitting on the bench near the machine was all :Q. He got up and started to watch, two cans became three, three became four, soon there were eight cans in there; I hit coin return to see if it would stop trying to jam the whole machine and maybe give me my money back, lo and behold it did! Two dollars came out in quarters from the bottom of the machine.
The area around the vending machines for this building is under construction, so there's really only one way to get there and it isn't extremely high traveled compared to the vending machines on the other side. I didn't have my bag with me (headsmack!) so I asked the guy if he liked energy drinks, he told me he'd never tried one. I tossed him one and said well today's your day, they're free; grabbed one to drink and two more, the most I could manage to carry. I came back to the machine after class, to see if the huge payout was still there, and the 4 remaining cans had only been reduced to three, so I took them all out, put them on the now unoccupied bench, and texted the friends in Stats and told them to bring a bag and get their asses over there.
People came and went, eventually a guy tried to buy Full Throttle. Apparently, it had sold out by giving all the cans to me, so I told him to try buying diet. As expected, it sold out Diet and gave him three cans, then started flashing SOLD OUT. He
and walked away, sat down closeby and enjoyed his buy 1 get 2 free caffeine. Said loser friends finally showed up, after 20 minutes, I hit coin return, and put the guys two dollars back into the machine, and tried the Rockstar button. One, two, three, four cans of Rockstar came out. Tried the Red Full Throttle, one, two, three cans. Diet Rockstar, one two three cans.
A girl came up to try and use the machine and saw 4 caffeine starved nerds jumping around in glee and gave us a look. "Want Full Throttle for half off?" "Sure, here's a dollar" Cha-ching. At this point the machine was completely sold out, she asked us if we had any diet, SURE WE DO. Have some diet Rockstar too, on the house! The machine still thought we'd paid it for a drink and hadn't received it, my friend hit coin return two or three times impatiently. BAM, the thing turned into a fucking slot machine. It emptied out ALL THE COINS inside it, close to $10.
Before anyone chimes in with any ethics crap, the machine malfunctioned and emptied everything it had inside it. We did absolutely nothing to "hack it" or "manipulate it" other than trying every button.
Add me to your Do Not Trade lists, whatever; an online retailer once set me my order in double, about a month apart, and did not charge me twice. I called them up because it was a little more than $100 worth of merchandise, not just an extra floppy drive or something, and they had no record of it ever happening. I asked them what I could do to return the merchandise, they said they couldn't print a return shipping label because it would automatically attempt to process a replacement or refund or some other technical junk. The CS rep just told me to keep the items or pay shipping myself to send them back (close to $25).
We couldn't exactly shove the drinks back inside it, and if we hadn't taken all the drinks, someone else sure would have. Caffeine happy college student, signing off!
CLIFFS:
1. I try to buy Full Throttle
2. Machine gives me 8 cans, and my money
3. I come back after class to get what's left of the 8 cans, and watch some guy buy 1 get 3 cans of Diet
4. Friends with bookbag show up, we try to buy Rockstar, and end up emptying the whole machine
5. Machine then spits out some huge amount of coins
SUPERCLIFFS:
A Full Throttle machine on campus turned into a slot machine, AND I WON THE FREAKIN JACKPOT.
In goes two dollars, out comes a can of Full Throttle. As I started to walk away, I heard more clunking that could have definitely been another can coming down, but I dismissed it as the noises the machine usually makes after dispensing a can. Then I heard it again. I turned around and walked back to see the machine just spitting out cans of Full Throttle; the goth dude sitting on the bench near the machine was all :Q. He got up and started to watch, two cans became three, three became four, soon there were eight cans in there; I hit coin return to see if it would stop trying to jam the whole machine and maybe give me my money back, lo and behold it did! Two dollars came out in quarters from the bottom of the machine.
The area around the vending machines for this building is under construction, so there's really only one way to get there and it isn't extremely high traveled compared to the vending machines on the other side. I didn't have my bag with me (headsmack!) so I asked the guy if he liked energy drinks, he told me he'd never tried one. I tossed him one and said well today's your day, they're free; grabbed one to drink and two more, the most I could manage to carry. I came back to the machine after class, to see if the huge payout was still there, and the 4 remaining cans had only been reduced to three, so I took them all out, put them on the now unoccupied bench, and texted the friends in Stats and told them to bring a bag and get their asses over there.
People came and went, eventually a guy tried to buy Full Throttle. Apparently, it had sold out by giving all the cans to me, so I told him to try buying diet. As expected, it sold out Diet and gave him three cans, then started flashing SOLD OUT. He
and walked away, sat down closeby and enjoyed his buy 1 get 2 free caffeine. Said loser friends finally showed up, after 20 minutes, I hit coin return, and put the guys two dollars back into the machine, and tried the Rockstar button. One, two, three, four cans of Rockstar came out. Tried the Red Full Throttle, one, two, three cans. Diet Rockstar, one two three cans.A girl came up to try and use the machine and saw 4 caffeine starved nerds jumping around in glee and gave us a
look. "Want Full Throttle for half off?" "Sure, here's a dollar" Cha-ching. At this point the machine was completely sold out, she asked us if we had any diet, SURE WE DO. Have some diet Rockstar too, on the house! The machine still thought we'd paid it for a drink and hadn't received it, my friend hit coin return two or three times impatiently. BAM, the thing turned into a fucking slot machine. It emptied out ALL THE COINS inside it, close to $10.Before anyone chimes in with any ethics crap, the machine malfunctioned and emptied everything it had inside it. We did absolutely nothing to "hack it" or "manipulate it" other than trying every button.
Add me to your Do Not Trade lists, whatever; an online retailer once set me my order in double, about a month apart, and did not charge me twice. I called them up because it was a little more than $100 worth of merchandise, not just an extra floppy drive or something, and they had no record of it ever happening. I asked them what I could do to return the merchandise, they said they couldn't print a return shipping label because it would automatically attempt to process a replacement or refund or some other technical junk. The CS rep just told me to keep the items or pay shipping myself to send them back (close to $25).
We couldn't exactly shove the drinks back inside it, and if we hadn't taken all the drinks, someone else sure would have. Caffeine happy college student, signing off!
CLIFFS:
1. I try to buy Full Throttle
2. Machine gives me 8 cans, and my money
3. I come back after class to get what's left of the 8 cans, and watch some guy buy 1 get 3 cans of Diet
4. Friends with bookbag show up, we try to buy Rockstar, and end up emptying the whole machine
5. Machine then spits out some huge amount of coins
SUPERCLIFFS:
A Full Throttle machine on campus turned into a slot machine, AND I WON THE FREAKIN JACKPOT.
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