Bought something from a vending machine in work and it got stuck. I went to get changed, came back and it was gone...

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Hello

My workplace has a vending machine. I bought a £2 drink this morning from it but the metal thingy turned around but didnt release the item so it got stuck.

I went to get more change to buy the one behind it/above it to try to release it, but the original one that was stuck was gone...

Im pissed off about this.

What do you make of this?

Do you think im being unreasonable?

There is normally contact details of the company on the machine, just contact them and tell them you didn't get your item and ask for a refund.

Annoying but not really a drama or surprising. Someone brought something. Stuck one fell out. They were hardly just going to leave it on the side.

Thoughts and prayers. This must be harrowing.

You snooze you loose.

You should have just rocked the machine back and forward a little to make the drink fall out.

We need to start considering the suspects

My boss bought a Lion Bar out of the machine and it was made of wood.

A display bar had got mixed up with the edible ones, somewhere in the system.

A... a wooden... display bar?

No, sorry, not having that

I think the level of mirth and joy this would engender in my colleagues as I toured my fake Lion bar around the office and then used it as a perpetual desk ornament would make this utterly worth it.

Call up the Spanish Inquisition, and have them set up shop in your workplace. This is way more important than medieval heresy.

I once did that and five bottles came out! I put the extra ones down by the machine and beat a very hasty retreat.

I've had the opposite happen (and oh yes, this is not a humble brag) I've bought a drink and had a twix randomly pop out with it. Went to retrieve my bounty and there was a pack of crisps in the bottom as well. 3 for the price of one. Had all the major food groups for lunch that day.

Takes the biscuit

Now, GivingUpFinally, let's just go over your statement, shall we?

The drink led to the unexpected Twix. But you opened the drawer to find a Bounty and a packet of crisps. 'Three for the price of one,' you say?

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I am but a simple barrister, and regrettably unversed in mathematics. But - bear with me, I shall do this on my fingers - a drink, a Twix, a Bounty and a packet of crisps?

Four. Is it not four? I think that's four, ladies and gentlemen of the jury.

I leave you to draw your own conclusions concerning the reliability of GivingUpFinally's....story.

No further questions, your honour.

Sorry no no no! It was a poor play on words. It was the three items. I tried to be clever but clearly failed. I apologise!

....No, I apologise. I've become so wearied by people not capitalising words that need to be capitalised that I now assume error where there is none.

M'lud, we request that all charges be dropped and that compensation be awarded in the shape of a Bounty.

Plain chocolate, obviously.

We're not animals.

a Vend diagram

Chapeau!! 🎩

why did you go and get changed op?

Try punching in 110

I was not gone for long when I went to get chamge.

I was actually thinking that someone had walked past the machine and saw the can halfway released from the holder thingy (there is a see through panel bit) and theyve shook/hit the machine to get the can to fall and then taken it (and not bought anything from the machine, maybe had no intention to).

As for leaving it on the side, they couldve went into the staff room and asked if anyone tried to buy a can of something and the machine didnt release the can.

I think the culprit is on MN.

I meant went to get some change for the machine to use it a second time, not go and get changed (mistype).

I was not gone for long.

Any CCTV in the area? I'd spend hours of the company's time watching the tapes. Also dust the machine for prints. Cordon the area off with that yellow and black tape you see on TV. Buy a deerstalker from Amazon, pretty sure you can put this on your expenses. If you're in the Manchester area I'll pop along and be your sidekick.

Have you called the police?