A self checkout machine at my friend's Wal Mart store suffered this casualty

[Mr Hero]

A picture is worth a thousand words. A SC hit it for some reason on his way out the store. My friend didn't say why.

[Seanette]

It refused to sell him alcohol or some other age-restricted item?

At least in California, one cannot purchase alcohol at SCO.

[Monterey Jack]

Hope that asshole was picking broken shards of plastic out of his knuckles for the next hour.

[eltf177]

Hope that asshole was picking broken shards of plastic out of his knuckles for the next hour.

Then has to open his wallet to pay for it...

[notalwaysright]

Yay, people. They react either by yelling or punching. My old car (the purple one) had a messed up stereo the whole time I owned it. The CD player was not functional, it would skip if you went over even the slightest bump. The previous owner's boyfriend had punched it during a fight, and then flung the door open, where it was hit and ripped off by a passing car. Maturity anyone?

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[Racket_Man]

This was one of the reasons my local cable company office took out their "self-checkout" type machine for bill paying. People yelling at it, hitting/punching it, kicking it, shoving stuff into it that should not have been shoved into it, and a few way of physically damaging it right in front of OTHER people and the office personel/clerks.

This is why we (generally speaking) can not have nice things.


ETA: found the post I made about 2 years ago
http://www.customerssuck.com/board/s...d.php?t=106263

[WishfulSpirit]

I'll admit to having WANTED to do that to some of those things. Usually when my girly hormones are acting up or I've had a bad day. I have, however, restrained my impulses and limited myself to calling the machine nasty names. Which, unless the machine has developed both sentience and self-esteem, won't hurt it.