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Venting Machine

Posted December 29, 2009 8:46 AM

From mental_floss Blog:

Forget stress balls and punching bags. If you're feeling destructive and simply want to break something, check out the Anger Release Machine. Created by artists Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal, Anger Release is basically a traditional vending machine stuffed full of glassware and china. When someone pays money for a particular product (say, the beautiful vase at D4, or the porcelain cat at C3), the coils slowly push the fragile piece to the front. And then it drops just like a bag of potato chips would… except with a slightly noisier crash!

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12/30/2009 5:07 AM

What a smashing invention!

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12/30/2009 11:19 AM

Personally, I'd much rather whip out my nunchakus and use them to smash open the heads of the people that annoyed me . True, it would be a lot easier for me to either Force strangle them or use my lightsaber to gut them open, but cracking a few heads open (literally) is so much more therapeutic, don't you think ?

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12/31/2009 1:44 AM

Surely the Emperor could send you to some anger management classes?

I like this machine; must allocate part of the 2010 budget to place one in the crawlspace.

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01/11/2010 8:20 PM

it would be more fun if you could shoot them off a fence with a shotgun... like at a carnival...

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