Can’t remember if i read it, or saw it on tv. But i heard most of the people killed by vending machines, are the vending machine safety inspectors, trying to see if tilting the machine is dangerous. Most of the machines are designed to be untippable. The weight is distributed in such a way that it should always tip back to normal. But the way to test it is to tip them, and sometimes they crush the person testing it.
Might be one of those urban myths though. I don’t have a strong enough memory of where i heard this to say for sure.
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u/TomCBC Jan 26 '26
Can’t remember if i read it, or saw it on tv. But i heard most of the people killed by vending machines, are the vending machine safety inspectors, trying to see if tilting the machine is dangerous. Most of the machines are designed to be untippable. The weight is distributed in such a way that it should always tip back to normal. But the way to test it is to tip them, and sometimes they crush the person testing it.
Might be one of those urban myths though. I don’t have a strong enough memory of where i heard this to say for sure.