Chimro
2009-01-11, 06:35
Well, last Friday I arrived at school in the morning as usual, but had several minutes extra before my math teacher would open the classroom door. I was also a bit thirsty, so I decided to go to the vending machine and pickup an overpriced bottle of water ($1.75). After placing a $2 coin in the machine, I noticed that all six slots of water were depleted. I pushed the coin return button, but to no avail, nothing came out of the slot.
Not wanting to be out two dollars, I pushed my hand up the coin return slot and felt something rubbery. It was round, so my best guess is that it was a super ball. As the super ball was pushed up by my hand, quite a few coins came down. I initially managed to retrieve my own $2 as well as few extra dollars which I took the secretary who owns the machines. I noticed there were still more coins trapped behind the ball, but I didn't bother to take them, yet.
When I arrived in the office, the secretary thanked me for reporting the problem, but seemed a bit apathetic about the fact that her customers were losing their change and the absence of water in the machine. Having not even been asked the location of the machine in question -- there are quite a few in my school -- I felt a slighted.
During my math class, I pondered the morality of taking the remaining coins for myself. I considered a number of facts before reaching my conclusion. First of all, the coins in the return slot do not actually belong to the machine owner, they're really property of the customers who had been fleeced. Next, while I'd be idealistic for the coins to be returned to their rightful owners, this wasn't really possible. It even seemed somewhat doubtful that the proper owners really cared about their coins, after all they hadn't retrieved them from behind the super ball, although this simply could have been too challenging for them -- more on that later. Perhaps the best solution would be for the machine owner to use the coins to pay for a discount of future purchases at the machine, since those who were fleeced the most would seem most likely to patronize the machine again and benefit from the discount, but this sort of action was unlikely. Leaving the coins behind has ethical problems too. If the originator of the coin trap was allowed to collect the quarters, fiduciary support would be given to criminal activity, thereby encouraging the troubled youngster to pursue a life of crime, negatively affecting both society and the individual. Eventually, I came to conclusion that I should take the coins. Doing so certainly could not be described as stealing, at best I would willfully receiving stolen property, and I even consider that description to be gratuitous.
Between math and my next class, I walked to the machine and emptied out all of the quarter hidden behind the super ball, thirty-eight in total ($9.50).
This whole incident has also gotten to me thinking, why didn't anyone notice this earlier? I found it almost right away, yet many people, presumably thirty-eight plus how ever many quarters I initially gave to the secretary were fleeced before I emptied out the trap, since it's typical to pay $2.00, get a drink for $1.75, and have a quarter returned to you.
Now my school is a pretty "diverse" (read: non-white) place. We even have Marxist propaganda posted on the walls ordering us to "value diversity" and whining about how Hitler -- allegedly -- carried out Biblical law and put some homosexuals out of their depravity. Just so there's no confusion, I'll note that I don't think Hitler was that great. The man was at least part Jew, he ultimately benefited the Jews in many ways, and while it's dubious that he killed more than 250,000 yids, it's indisputable that his wars led to the deaths of about 50 million white Europeans. Not to go off on a tangent though. Is it possible that all of the "diverse" students simply weren't intelligent enough to find the problem and retrieve the coins? Could it be that they're too distended from socialist Canada's affirmative action and grants for immigrants to care about a few quarters?
Now, with the Jews having placed every tax imaginable on my family, I am happy to get the $9.50 if I can -- after all, it only took me a few seconds and was rather enjoyable, even though Jewish inflation means it's barely enough to buy lunch for a day.
Not wanting to be out two dollars, I pushed my hand up the coin return slot and felt something rubbery. It was round, so my best guess is that it was a super ball. As the super ball was pushed up by my hand, quite a few coins came down. I initially managed to retrieve my own $2 as well as few extra dollars which I took the secretary who owns the machines. I noticed there were still more coins trapped behind the ball, but I didn't bother to take them, yet.
When I arrived in the office, the secretary thanked me for reporting the problem, but seemed a bit apathetic about the fact that her customers were losing their change and the absence of water in the machine. Having not even been asked the location of the machine in question -- there are quite a few in my school -- I felt a slighted.
During my math class, I pondered the morality of taking the remaining coins for myself. I considered a number of facts before reaching my conclusion. First of all, the coins in the return slot do not actually belong to the machine owner, they're really property of the customers who had been fleeced. Next, while I'd be idealistic for the coins to be returned to their rightful owners, this wasn't really possible. It even seemed somewhat doubtful that the proper owners really cared about their coins, after all they hadn't retrieved them from behind the super ball, although this simply could have been too challenging for them -- more on that later. Perhaps the best solution would be for the machine owner to use the coins to pay for a discount of future purchases at the machine, since those who were fleeced the most would seem most likely to patronize the machine again and benefit from the discount, but this sort of action was unlikely. Leaving the coins behind has ethical problems too. If the originator of the coin trap was allowed to collect the quarters, fiduciary support would be given to criminal activity, thereby encouraging the troubled youngster to pursue a life of crime, negatively affecting both society and the individual. Eventually, I came to conclusion that I should take the coins. Doing so certainly could not be described as stealing, at best I would willfully receiving stolen property, and I even consider that description to be gratuitous.
Between math and my next class, I walked to the machine and emptied out all of the quarter hidden behind the super ball, thirty-eight in total ($9.50).
This whole incident has also gotten to me thinking, why didn't anyone notice this earlier? I found it almost right away, yet many people, presumably thirty-eight plus how ever many quarters I initially gave to the secretary were fleeced before I emptied out the trap, since it's typical to pay $2.00, get a drink for $1.75, and have a quarter returned to you.
Now my school is a pretty "diverse" (read: non-white) place. We even have Marxist propaganda posted on the walls ordering us to "value diversity" and whining about how Hitler -- allegedly -- carried out Biblical law and put some homosexuals out of their depravity. Just so there's no confusion, I'll note that I don't think Hitler was that great. The man was at least part Jew, he ultimately benefited the Jews in many ways, and while it's dubious that he killed more than 250,000 yids, it's indisputable that his wars led to the deaths of about 50 million white Europeans. Not to go off on a tangent though. Is it possible that all of the "diverse" students simply weren't intelligent enough to find the problem and retrieve the coins? Could it be that they're too distended from socialist Canada's affirmative action and grants for immigrants to care about a few quarters?
Now, with the Jews having placed every tax imaginable on my family, I am happy to get the $9.50 if I can -- after all, it only took me a few seconds and was rather enjoyable, even though Jewish inflation means it's barely enough to buy lunch for a day.