Originally Posted by kedawa
Whenever a machine rips me off, I usually punch it and try to get my money back. I can't count the number of times I've popped a quarter into a game or a payphone or a vending machine, had it eat my cash, gave it a few knocks, and had change pour out like a slot machine.
Of course that only works if it's the coin mechanism that's the problem, but I'll shut off an arcade machine if it's got busted joysticks or whatever. Might as well make it so everyone else can tell that it's broken.