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Vending machines are more dangerous than shark attacks! Really! Every year, a few people are killed when machines topple over on them, either while trying to steal from them, or venting frustration on them, especially when a malfunction causes the machine to fail to dispense the purchased item or the proper change (leading to the humorous saying, "change is inevitable, except from a vending machine").

1.	Kevin Mackle, 21, was killed in 1998 when the machine at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, tipped over when he shook it, trying to dislodge a drink.
2.	The apparent electrocution of a college student who touched two vending machines while standing on his head to stop his hiccups has turned up what could be an electrical short.
3.	A Lakewood teenager was found dead pinned under a Pepsi-Cola vending machine outside a service station where he worked. Friends discovered the body of Mike Wasson, 19, after he failed to meet them as planned Wednesday night. One of the friends, Bill Schnoor, said the machine could be made to cough up a free drink.
4.	A 50-year-old man who drank a poisoned beverage from a vending machine died in the seventh such fatality since May, police said. Mitsugu Tsuboi, a rubber processor, died from respiratory failure caused by drinking the beverage.
5.	A vending machine weighing hundreds of pounds fell and killed a Charlotte man as he unloaded it from a truck late at night at Johnson C. Smith University
6.	Workers at a golf course in Japan found the body of a man who had been crushed to death when a vending machine fell on him. Judging from the scene, it appears that the man had been forcibly opening the vending machines to steal the cash inside them when one of the machines suddenly tipped over.

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