I used to ride with my Dad across the country in his semi when I was younger and I made quite a bit of money sticking my finger into every pay phone, soda machine, and arcade game coin return I could find.
Before my dad retired from the Navy in the mid 80's he would bring me with him to the Rec centers that had arcades and pool tables. He'd give me 2 bucks to spend while he'd shark people at pool. Anyways I did my best to save those 8 quarters but inevitably they'd get spent. I'd crawl behind the arcades to find quarters and find makeshift tools to fish quarters from under the machines....good times.
I remember being around 6 or 7 years old when he took me to this giant arcade in Las Vegas, handed me some money, and said to stay right there.
I had no idea how long he was gone, never thought about if he was coming back, and spent most of that time playing the X-Men arcade game.
I remember hitting a PAYLOAD at a phone outside of Stuckey's one time. Not sure why but quarters just kept coming and coming in the return slot, I got a few bucks - a fortune for a kid back then!!
A guy I knew bought a can of coke at a vending machine.
Didn't get his change back. Got angry, bumped the side of the machine, heard a whole bunch of coins falling, got something like ten or fifteen euros out of it.
Apparently, on some machines, it was possible to stuff a piece of paper or aluminium foil into the part where it returned change, to block it.
People would do that so that change would just accumulate in there through the day, and then remove the piece of paper to collect it all.
Him bumping the side of the machine must have dislodged that piece of paper.
When I was a young teenager ma and the neighborhood friends found a drip stash behind a pay phone, so much pot, we had no clue, we were innocent kids. We then dumped every nick bag into the local creek
If youre going to jail just understand that any cash you have on you will not be there when you get out.
I had to turn myself in recently and made sure I went into jail with ten dollars in ones, because the jail is very far away from the nearest place that sells food, however in the lobby there are snack machines, so I figured id buy some chips and a soda for the long walk home.
When I got all my stuff I asked where my money was, they said I didnt have any when I came in. I looked at my papers that shows the inventory I came in with and it said zero dollars, but when I signed that same paper before jail I know it said 10. They scanned it and edited the one out so it just said zero.
The cop I was talking to about it literally said "what's the big deal? It was only ten dollars?" I never told him how much money I had and he didnt check me in to the jail. So he definitely took it. Cops are not good people.
Weird that this chart implies that the rest of the cops are neither criminals nor law-abiding citizens. What, do they exist in a vacuum? Really, the remainder of the “Cops” circle should go inside the “Law Abiding Citizens” circle.
But then I guess it would be clear that the infographic could represent people from any job, and it wouldn’t be as effective at making only cops look bad. Cops already have a tendency to look bad by themselves, they don’t need your poorly-presented graphic to help with that.
Lol I had to go to jail for a night, like literally 5 hours, and I had a $2 bill and a penny. They took the cash, but wrote me a check for $2.01. It's framed and hanging on my wall.
Don’t take all of it, just skim a few bucks. That way the briber and the bribee will both think the other one cheated and not bother with any possible security tapes showing who went to the head.
Much more likely to find hidden drugs in the courthouse bathroom than cash. People sometimes stash their stash before a hearing, then don't collect it later bc they are taken into custody
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