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Frustrated customers share the funniest vending machine fails of all time

Vending machines won’t provide you with a main meal, but they can come in handy when you’re hungry and just need a quick snack.

These photos, however, show that this is not always the case.

For the frustrated foodies who took these hilarious pictures, the machines are nothing more than money-wasting pillars of disappointment.

We’ve rounded up the funniest pictures of vending machine fails, from sarcastic notes left on faulty units to a cat finding his way into an appliance.

Dozens have shared pictures of their hilarious vending machine disasters on Imgur, where some of these images have racked up millions of views.

Some of the most popular are photos of witty notes left on broken vending machines.

One of the most viral images shows a darkened vending machine with a note on the front that reads: ‘The light inside has broken but I still work.’

Many of the people who shared the image on Imgur jokingly empathised with the message, with one writing: ‘I know how you feel, vending machine.’

Another note on a different vending machine helpfully points out that it ‘won’t take the money’.

Hilariously, someone else has added underneath: ‘Unlike my ex-wife.’ Another machine has a sarcastic note which says it is not dispensing food but is ‘accepting cash donations’.

A Good Samaritan alerted future customers to another broken vending machine with a note that advised: ‘This is broken. It will take your money and give you nothing. You will have no soda and no money. And that’s no way to live.’

Another frustrated customer was more aggressive in his note-writing. They attached a message to the front of a machine which read: ‘Put Cheetos back in this machine or I will snip the power cabels [sic]. You have 1 hour.’

One note helpfully points out ‘DO NOT USE – numbers are incorrect.’

But another message adds: ‘Or do, if you like surprises.’ It even lifts a few combinations that are guaranteed to deliver an ‘ok’ snack.

Another vending machine note is written from the point of view of the appliance. It reads: ‘I can’t dispense Lay’s chips to save my life.

‘I am a sad excuse for a vending machine and a disgrace to my family.’

One series of images documents one man’s repeated failed attempts to buy a chocolate bar from a Swedish vending machine.

When the first bar fails to drop from the dispenser, he tries to buy a packet of sweets from the shelf above to knock the bar down.

When that fails, he then proceeds to buy two more bars – both of which also get stuck.

It’s only when he buys the fourth bar that the first two snacks drop down – leaving the remaining two behind. But at that stage, the frustrated customer gives up.

Other images show piles and piles of products stacked up on the floor of the vending machine – making it impossible for anyone else to buy a snack.

One photo even shows a cute black and white cat which has somehow snuck into the machine.

And there are plenty of photos too of multiple treats stuck in dispenser rings – surely one of the most frustrating sights imaginable.

One photo shows that the stock in a vending machine is not changed that regularly. Imgur user, chuckabrick, uploaded a photo of a discontinued Fruitopia drink – which he claimed was 13 years old.

Another shows a vending machine full of unhealthy snacks – but the outer casing is emblazoned with a healthy eating message.

Temperatures drop to -9.4C in coldest night of season for England and Wales

England and Wales have experienced the coldest night of the season with temperatures dropping as low as -9.4C (15F), the Met Office said.
The coldest reading was in the village of Sennybridge, Powys, on Wednesday morning with the lowest November figure since 2010.

Meteorologists also measured a temperature of -8.5C in Benson, Oxfordshire.

The Met Office is expecting slightly less chilly evenings from Wednesday onwards as clouds move down from Scotland, but the colder temperatures are likely to return at the weekend and some areas could still get a fair amount of frost, meteorologist Sophie Yeomans said.

In Scotland, there could be a few bright spells in some areas on Wednesday, but cloud cover in the west may be thick enough for patches of rain.

The Shetland Islands are expected to receive lengthy but light showers and gales are also forecast for the far north.

The middle band of the UK is likely to have fog patches in the morning around Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and the Vale of York but they will clear to sunny skies as clouds move down from the north.

The southbound clouds are expected to lift the mercury slightly as they push down towards central and northern regions and elevate overnight temperatures slightly.

Yeomans said conditions were slightly colder than the average daytime temperatures for this time of year but this could be the result of a temporary cold spell.

On Wednesday, London and Cardiff are expected to peak at 4C, Glasgow to reach 9C and Edinburgh to head towards 8C.

The colder conditions come as the Local Government Association’s (LGA) annual winter readiness survey shows that councils are well prepared for plummeting temperatures with a substantial stock of grit.

About half are at the limit of storage capacity, and the LGA said gritters will be out treating thousands of miles of roads whenever overnight temperatures drop below zero.

LGA’s transport spokesman Martin Tett said: “We are well prepared for the cold, with 1.2m tonnes of salt stockpiled and a fleet of state-of-the-art gritters ready to be deployed.”

Public Health England has warned people to remember that “cold does kill” even in places that are not experiencing the coldest temperatures.

The first day of December marks the beginning of meteorological winter, which lasts until 1 February.

Australia’s Dreamworld theme park to reopen after ride deaths

Australia’s Dreamworld theme park will reopen on 10 December, six weeks after four people died in a ride malfunction.

Two victims were thrown from the Thunder River Rapids ride and two were trapped inside in the tragedy on 25 October.

Dreamworld said it would demolish the ride and conduct a “multi-level” independent safety review.

The park, on Queensland’s Gold Coast, will reopen with a charity weekend in time for local school holidays.

The families of the victims – Kate Goodchild, 32, Luke Dorsett, 35, Roozbeh Araghi, 38, and Cindy Low, 42 – are understood to have been informed about the development.

Dreamworld’s owner Ardent Leisure said the attraction and its adjoining water park, Whitewater World, would only offer rides that had passed rigorous safety checks.

“Dreamworld’s other rides will progressively open as they are signed off as part of the safety review process,” the company said in a statement.

Dreamworld chief Craig Davidson said four independent safety investigations will have been conducted by 10 December.

One investigation, by Queensland Workplace Health and Safety, last week issued seven improvement notices for Dreamworld and Whitewater World.

The investigation found a faded “emergency stop” button on the Green Room Waterslide, outdated protective equipment on the Flowrider and a register to notify authorities about storing hazardous chemicals.

Mr Davidson said Dreamworld would donate A$25 (£15; $19) to the Red Cross for every ticket sold at the “Open Hearts – Open Doors” charity weekend.

In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, Ardent Leisure said the closure of both parks throughout November 2016 would “result in no significant revenue being recorded for that month”.

It noted that the parks earned A$7.6m in the corresponding period last year.

Ardent said the parks incurred operating costs of between A$4m and A$4.2m for the period and that the company expected to incur “one-off costs of A$1.6m associated with the tragedy” through insurance claims.

A coroner’s investigation into the deaths is ongoing. Dreamworld has hosted 30 million people since opening in 1981, with October’s tragedy its first fatal accident.

US election recount: Clinton supports hand-counting Wisconsin ballots

Hillary Clinton made her first move in the presidential election recount effort on Tuesday, declaring support for an attempt to force Wisconsin authorities to review the state’s 3m votes by hand.
Clinton intervened in the case of a lawsuit brought by Jill Stein, the Green party candidate, which seeks to bar officials in Wisconsin from carrying out recounts with machines, according to the docket for the case at Dane County circuit court.

An attorney for Clinton said in a court filing that the former secretary of state argues, like Stein, that hand recounts are superior to automatic recounts of ballots by optical scanners, which are used by about 90% of counties in the state.

Clinton “respectfully supports the issuance of an order requiring a manual recount of all ballots cast in the presidential election in Wisconsin”, attorney Joshua Kaul said in the motion, according to the Madison Capital Times.

Attorneys for Clinton did not respond to requests for comment.

A hearing on Stein’s case was taking place on Tuesday night at the court in Madison. Wisconsin authorities argued in opposition to the lawsuit that hand recounts would be too time-consuming and make it impossible to finish by a 12 December deadline.

Stein is seeking full recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, all states where Clinton narrowly lost to Donald Trump. After declining to take up the recount cause, Clinton’s campaign said last weekend that it would cooperate in the process.

Trump’s campaign reacted furiously to the recount requests, accusing those involved of being “crybabies and losers”. Trump later made a series of wild claims on Twitter, without any evidence, that Clinton had benefited from widespread illegal voting.

Stein had been asked to act by a coalition of election security experts and activists concerned that foreign hackers could have sabotaged the presidential election. US intelligence agencies said during the election campaign that Russian hackers had intruded into some state voter systems and stolen emails from Democratic officials.

More than $6.5m for the recount effort has been raised online in a crowdfunding effort led by Stein. Authorities in Wisconsin confirmed on Tuesday that Stein had paid the $3.5m in fees required for the recount but said once again that price had increased.

The state election commission, which on Monday raised the asking price from $1.1m to $3.5m, said they had miscalculated and another $400,000 was needed. The commission said it would proceed and bill the Stein campaign after the recount.

Stein has further work to do in other states. In Pennsylvania, her supporters have filed recount petitions in more than 260 election districts around six of the state’s largest counties, according to Stein’s team. State rules require three voters in each to make such a request for a recount to be triggered there.

Stein’s tally of districts is well short of the total 9,163 across the state. A spokesman did not respond to a request to confirm that the petitions had been submitted before filing deadlines, which vary between counties.

The campaign said it intended to file a recount petition in Michigan on Wednesday, which is the state deadline. A spokesman said state officials had indicated they were willing to proceed with a recount by hand after the petition is filed.

ISIS brutally butcher families who refuse to let militants turn their homes into camps

Iraqi Shiite fighters from the Hashed al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilisation) paramilitaries fire a rocket during an advance in a desert area near the village of Tall Abtah, southwest of Mosul, on November 28, 2016

Romney, potential U.S. secretary of state, hails Trump after dinner

Republican Mitt Romney made an impassioned statement in support of President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday to try to erase doubts about him among Trump’s supporters and remain in contention for U.S. secretary of state.

Romney, a fierce critic of Trump during the Republican presidential primary battle, stopped short of an outright apology but his intention to wipe the slate clean was clear.

The former Massachusetts governor, who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 and lost, praised Trump for a “message of inclusion and bringing people together” since his Nov. 8 victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Noting the appointments Trump has made to fill key cabinet positions for his administration and his desire for greater unity among Americans, Romney said that “all of those things combined give me increasing hope that President-elect Trump is the very man who can lead us” to a better future.

Romney made his remarks after a lengthy meal with Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at a French restaurant at a Trump hotel in Manhattan. They dined on garlic soup with frog legs, scallops, steak and lamb chop.

Since Trump began to seriously consider Romney as a potential secretary of state, some on Trump’s team have voiced doubts about bringing in a former critic and rallied around their preferred candidate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a long-time Trump friend and loyalist.

Leading this effort in an unusually public way has been senior Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, who told a round of television interviews on Sunday that Trump supporters would feel “betrayed” if Romney was picked.

Trump, however, has kept Romney in contention for the secretary of state position, and a Republican source close to the transition effort said Priebus has been pushing for Romney behind the scenes.

“I had a wonderful evening with President-elect Trump,” Romney said in remarks to reporters after the dinner. “We had another discussion about affairs throughout the world and these discussions I’ve had with him have been enlightening, and interesting, and engaging. I’ve enjoyed them very, very much.”

A senior Trump aide described Romney’s remarks as “solid.” Trump is to meet on Friday for the second time with retired Marine Corps General John Kelly as part of his secretary of state search, the aide said.

Trump is also considering U.S. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Corker met Trump at Trump Tower earlier on Tuesday and told reporters afterward that Trump “needs to choose someone that he’s very comfortable with and he knows there’s going be no daylight between him and them.”

“The world needs to know that the secretary of state is someone who speaks fully for the president and again, that’s a decision he’s going to have to make,” Corker said.

Hillary Clinton makes surprise appearance at Unicef Snowflake Ball

Mrs Clinton said, “We need champions like Katy” when introducing Perry, who was receiving the Audrey Hepburn Humanitarian Award.
The Snowflake Ball celebrates Unicef’s lifesaving work for children around the world and has raised $27 million over the past eleven years.

Pensioner, 72, clubbed on head with metal pole in ‘unprovoked road rage attack’

pensioner has been clubbed on the head with a metal pole after being chased by another motorist in an ‘unprovoked attack’.

The 72-year-old needed stitches for a cut eyebrow after being chased through Birmingham by a man driving a white Mercedes Sprinter van.

West Midlands Police said that when the victim stopped his blue Citroen in Wilton Street, the van driver got out and used the pole to smash the front driver side window.

He then hit the pensioner, before getting back in the van and driving away. The whole ordeal lasted 15 minutes.

The driver was only able to give a description of the van’s passenger, who is said to have been a man, aged around 30, and about 5ft 8ins to 5ft 9ins tall.

A partial number plate of the vehicle was given as WM56.

CCTV is also being scoured for clues, but anyone with any information about the attack is urged to call police on 101 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

In Delta: Police arrests 28 suspected teenage cultists in Asaba

The State Police Commissioner, CP Zanna Ibrahim, disclosed this on Saturday in Asaba.

He said that the teenage secret cult group was known as the “Future Trigger Boys’’ (FTB).

Ibrahim said that out of the 28 suspects, 10 were students of Osadenis Grammar School, Asaba.

The CP said the suspected cultists, aged between 13 and 16 years old, were rounded up during school hours, following intelligence reports from members of the public.

“These are children, who were sent to school to study but regrettably, they form cult group to terrorise their fellow students and the entire school.

“They call themselves the ‘Future Trigger Boys’. We were able to arrest these ones, while many others are still on the run.

“Since we arrested them, many of their parents have been on our neck,” Ibrahim said.

The CP urged members of the public to continuously avail the command with valuable information that would help the Police checkmate all forms of crimes in the society.

In an interview with NAN, one of the teenage suspected cultists, who is 13 years old JSS1 student of Osadenis Grammar School, confessed his membership of the group.

“All of us are cultists. We are members of the Future Trigger Boys. I was introduced into the group in 2014 by my friend here.

“Our leader is one Ibrahim, he is currently at large,’’ the suspect said.

He, however, said that he had left the group and had not been participating in its activities anymore.

The suspect alleged that when the Police arrested some of them, they named him as a member.

Another member of the group, a 14-year-old JSS 3 student of the same school, also said that he had left the group but always afraid of some of the boys.

“1 joined the FTB last year, when one of my friends introduced me to the group.

“We have members in various schools here in Asaba. We do not use any weapon, we only fight with our hands.

“Early this year, I told my friends that I do not want to belong to the group anymore because I was afraid of some of the bigger boys, especially Ibrahim,” the suspect said.

The CP said the police were still investigating the activities of the group and assured that the ringleaders , who are currently on the run, would be apprehended.