Kids climbing on machines - unbelievable what they will do.

[nam]

 

We stopped by a Churchs Chicken for lunch yesterday and couldn't believe what this kid was doing while the parents paid no attention.  There is a real nice looking setup there just like this one with the wood cabinet, nice 4 column sticker/tattoo machines mounted on top of that and then  more candy heads attached ontop of the sticker/tattoo machine.  Well, this young girl between 6-8 yrs old places one foot on the wood cabinet and her hand ontop the candy heads and raises herself up.  Then she puts her other foot onto the coin mechs sticking out from the sticker/tattoo machine.  Then she side steps over so she ended up with both feet standing on the coin mechs. of the sticker machine and leaning over to put her hands ontop the candy heads.  This girl is pretty high up in the air about now!  Finally the dad saw her and acted like it was nothing and told her to get down.  I couldn't believe with her weight on those coin mechs. that the whole setup didn't fall forward with her on it.  Sure if she had weighted more it would have.  Glad she was a skinny girl!

[antoniocinisi]

the kid is lucky the machines sit so low.

anymore nothing surprises me.how do these parents raise kids anymore with no respect for other peoples property or elders or anything.I hope I do a better job.

at the pizza shop they messed  with the gun on the buck hunter game I have there,dropping it all the time or banging it or whatever else and I would just cringe.them guns aren`t cheap either at around 200 bucks.and if you dare say something to the kid half the time the parents will give dirty looks or be defensive about it.2 differant kids have gone back and were let play with the gun again!!some people!!

being in vending or not if my 6-8 year old would have done anything to damage-climb-mess with others` property it would have been the first and last time.shouldn`t the parents been worried that something coulda happened or at least order them down?

 

[nepavend]

That actually looks like one of Simon's setups with the wood cabinet, the interactive on the left and the vendors mounted on the sticker machines.

[Faith Vending]

I wonder what the parents would do if someone went over and stepped on their food? I always wonder how people react when it is done to them. I think parents are the problem most of the time.

[Jax Snacks]

Yea, kids don't just use the machine - they play with it as well. I had one location where the kids twisted the top of a double head completely off a pipe stand. The owner said "kids will be kids". Just another reason why I don't like J stands. It's very hard to get the top and bottom shelves aligned and properly tightened. I only have 2 of them, but I am constantly having to re-tighten and re-align them due to horse play.

Jax

[nam]

Joe,

The machine here in AZ was one of Simons that he sold to someone here in Az I believe. I posted about seeing this cool setup some time back and he responded that he had recently delivered that setup to someone over here. I didn't have a picture of the Churchs Chicken setup so just got this pic off his website. It's very similar with the exact wood cabinet with the graphics on the front, 4 col. flat with the small cannisters attached to the top of the 4 col. machine. Very nice looking setup. The wood cabinets aren't that wide and just amazed it didn't tip over. This girl is standing on the mechs with both feet! The parents were no more bothered than if she were playing on a jungle gym at the park.

Some kids and their parents!

nam

[sterling]

A breakfast place here has two machines and told me a 15 year old boy broke the mechanism in front of her and his mom. When confronted the mom just said boys will be boys. Basically it is like saying murders and rapists will be murders and rapists and there is nothing that can be done about it. I know this is a hyperbaly, however with parents that don't/won't correct their kids are teach them consequences or responsibility. She was saying he is going to do bad things and I can't change who he is or what he does. This makes for a scary next generations attitude!

On the flip side if someone damaged her property I bet she'd have a lawyer by the end of the day!

[nepavend]

Yeah it is really funny how people act when something is done to something that is not theirs.  I would immediately step in and stop whatever was being done, and if I scolded by an overprotective soccer mom, so be it! 

Luckily it was one of Simon's nicer and heavier setups, otherwise it would have tumbled over!!

[shvend]

That actually looks like one of Simon's setups with the wood cabinet, the interactive on the left and the vendors mounted on the sticker machines.

Yeah it does look like on e of Simons's setups!

[antoniocinisi]

That actually looks like one of Simon's setups with the wood cabinet, the interactive on the left and the vendors mounted on the sticker machines.

Yeah it does look like on e of Simons's setups!

I bet it is.

[nam]

Joe,

The machine here in AZ was one of Simons that he sold to someone here in Az I believe. I posted about seeing this cool setup some time back and he responded that he had recently delivered that setup to someone over here. I didn't have a picture of the Churchs Chicken setup so just got this pic off his website. 

Guys,

I said in an earlier post that it was one of Simons in the Churchs Chicken that he had sold to a vendor in here in Arizona.  I didn't have an exact picture of the one in Churchs here so I used one of Simons web site.

nam

 

[reel]

Yeah why the hell do these parents just sit and watch these kids deliberately break other peoples machines is beyond me.

Antonio your so correct here is the same if you say anything at all to the kid the parents will either give you a dirty look or verbal you with some choice words.

We get kids turning the coin mechs on the uturns at times till it breaks so they can steal all the candy, and also stuffing paper and odd coins etc in our pinballs till they break or cannot turn around, in fact i only replaced a machine yesterday.

[candykid]

Not just "kids" either, but late teens. We had 5 heads in a college attended mostly by boys learning mechanical, welding and carpentary skills. Had to finally remove everything after they broke a globe, and several mechanisms. All it took was 1 bad apple to ruin it for the rest. Next they will be after the pop machine and loss that too!

[nam]

Update - we went back to eat at the same Churchs Chicken and now know why it didn't fall with the girl standing on the coin mechs of the sticker/tattoo machine. It is bolted to the wall! Glad this vendor was one up on the kids as this thing would probably have gone over if he hadn't bolted it to the wall. Seems like alot of extra work but definetly paid off in this case. The only problem from my experience with ATM's is sometimes they won't allow you to drill holes where you want and when you pull the machine out they expect all holes or whatever to be made as it was before installing the machine.

I think this is more of a unique problem with this type of stand as the base is very narrow considering machines are stacked on top of machines making the center of gravity higher than if the 4 col. sticker/tattoo had been on a single pole stand. Also would have been no way for this girl to get her feet up high enough to stand on the mechs. without the wood cabinet to climb on. Very nice looking setup though and they must know of the issue which is why it was bolted to the wall.

nam

[Bravo Duck]

Went to service a Pizza place yesterday, walk through the door , look around for my new double Northwestern and its gone. I ask an employee and its in a back room with 2 broken globes. Someone had pulled it over or climbed on it. It happens, some days chickens, some days feathers.

[lurtsman]

Yeah it is really funny how people act when something is done to something that is not theirs.  I would immediately step in and stop whatever was being done, and if I scolded by an overprotective soccer mom, so be it! 

Luckily it was one of Simon's nicer and heavier setups, otherwise it would have tumbled over!!

I scold the children in front of their parents. If the parents mouth so much as moves I fix them with a death gaze. I've never had one utter a single word to me, only be ashamed and tell their child to come over and stand by them silently. Of course, I'm very clear in not verbally attacking the children, I design it TOO shame the parents.

How? I explain to the children how the machine works--that it requires quarters to turn. If they say they know and continue playing, then I tell them that if they took something from the machine without paying, that would be stealing. Did they want to steal?

I've even witnessed one child who found something in the chute (I can't imagine why it was left there) and she went over and put it back in the machine. I think she thought she had rattled it loose. She was actually a fairly good kid, and I wouldn't of minded one bit if she had kept it since someone else had paid for it and left it. (When she left I went and picked up the item, as finding things in the chute would cause kids to check and tug on the mechs every time they came in.

(Edit: I don't particularly love library work, but I work there instead of retail because I do not have to please the customer. I have no interest in customer service, my job is to keep a system functioning and available. If the people are not happy, I do not have to care. Frequently I will go out of my way to help someone have a good day, but when they mouth off I have the pleasure of showing them to the door. Any child who breaks something there will pay to buy a new one or have their family banned from the library.) I have the luxury of allowing them to pay by check to the library, and then deducting the amount from my liability for commission.