German Man Dies After Blowing Up Condom Machine

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35189938

This condom machine looks as if its beside a road or on a country footpath
somewhere !

[-Talbot-]

O' dear ... silly Johnny Foreigner!

[tonyav]

tut tut, they must have had explosive lessons from these guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GeQR8fJo

[Mamyalynne]

He should have gone for a pizza instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyrav_9Pbsc

[shoota]

I have long considered German chewing gum to be overly chewy.....

[douglas9401]

A charge of highway rubbery is being considered. His friends are said to be sensitive about getting ribbed.

[DTCwordfan]

Surely this must be a Trojan story?

It was on Impulse I hear you say....but surely it was the poor Night Light that caused it, a Rough Rider working in Vivid Lites.

[tonyav]

Good job it was Christmas day when the roads are quiet otherwise the motorists would have been doing a fair bit of rubbernecking I should imagine.

[pixie374]

Premature detonation. Could happen to anyone.

[tonyav]

Wonder how much one of those pizza's are.

[bhg481]

We visited the Sorpe Dam last year and saw a vending machine selling bicycle inner tubes - I suppose, if desperate, you could cut one into suitable lengths and tie a knot in one end.

[bookbinder]

That would make his eyes water, bhg.

[bhg481]

More likely to make HER eyes water, bookbinder.

[retrocop]

Das for sprung door technique?

[anotheoldgit]

/// Vending machines (for lots of different things) are widely found across Germany. ///

They were once widely found across the UK also.

Cigarette machines
Chewing Gum machines
Bubble Gum machines
Stamp machines

But not now, does that mean that this country is more prone to criminal activity than it once was?

[Zacs-Master]

Why would the country be more prone to 'criminal activity' because there are less vending machines?

[Baldric]

Did I hear a Wet Blanket land nearby?

[RATTER15]

When I said blow up a condom........

[anotheoldgit]

Zacs-Master

/// Why would the country be more prone to 'criminal activity' because there are less vending machines ///

Then what's your explanation for them being no longer available to the public?

I suggest that today they would either be vandalised or ripped off the walls, neither of which happened long ago.

[Mosaic]

AOG - it surely did happen long ago! That's why vending machines were of a sturdy build and bolted to walls / floors!

[anotheoldgit]

Mosaic

/// AOG - it surely did happen long ago! That's why vending machines were of a sturdy build and bolted to walls / floors! ///

Well obviously they weren't going to make them out of tin plate and nailed to the walls, encouraging 'take away' were they?

In all the years I remember them in situ I can never remember any being removed or even tamped with, they remained operative for years.