vending machines

[billybunter]

how many people have been killed trying to shake items out of a vending machine since 1978?

[bird_81]

37 people killed between 1978 and 1995.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/b/a/005445.htm

[missprim]

I thought the answer to this question might be 1, namely billybunter, or did he die eating all the items that fell out of the vending machines that 37 people shook?