Philibuster » Just plain funny http://philibuster.net All the things that interest me in a neat and tidy package Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:46:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 A whole new reason to cry at the ATM http://philibuster.net/2009/07/17/a-whole-new-reason-to-cry-at-the-atm/ http://philibuster.net/2009/07/17/a-whole-new-reason-to-cry-at-the-atm/#comments Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:09:59 +0000 Philibuster http://philibuster.net/?p=440 Ah, South Africa. Land of my birth and family. Also the land of cars with flame throwers and various other theft deterrent devices. The new hotness now, ATMs equipped with pepper spray. If you start screwing with the ATM then it’s going to call the police and blast you with liquid pain. This can only end as well as the flame throwers on cars did. Hilarious. Not even before the article ends do I get a return on that prediction. Three workers doing maintenance on the ATM set it off.

I think this is funny but really it’s kinda a stupid idea. I mean you can easily cover or block the spray nozzle. Sure it would work the first couple times but people should wise up. Oh wait I forgot people are stupid so while some people would figure out that a simple sheet of plastic or whatever will stop it I’m sure there are going to be a ton of stories about how some retard with a stick got blasted into tears and puke.

I also think that it should be extended to blast people who take too long. Many a time I have wished that the ATM would just punch the moron holding up the line because they can’t figure out why they don’t have any money in their account.

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I think this is the first time I’ve actually seen Welsh. Honestly looking at this sign I can’t say that I recognize it as a language. It just looks like gibberish to me. I can look at Russian, French and whatever words and see that they are words but there isn’t any point in time that I can say looking at things like swyddfa and not think that someone has spilled soda on their keyboard. No offense Wales.

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