Break out the tinfoil hats - even gumballs are a tool of terror.

[mothershipconnection]

Yeah, maybe these guys don't have enough to worry about. I work with kids every day and see the huge list of actual dangers they face (like falling down stairs, household chemicals, etc). Gumballs have never made that list. Man, I hate sensationalized journalism and fear-mongering and thank my lucky stars that we didn't have this crap to nearly the same degree when I was a kid.

 

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[JoeHova]

Hmm, that sure seems unlikely. I suppose somebody could poison gumballs (that somebody would seem more likely to be some lone nut than a terrorist), but isn't that true of almost anything? However, it's my guess that these guys are actually just upset that unlicensed vending machines are prevalent in their area and they said the terrorist thing as an excuse for looking into it.

[Brian the Automator]

I thought it was was common knowledge that the purple ones were uppers, and the green ones were poison.

[ccbrew]

Police Chief Harold "Butch" Valentine tells The Star-Ledger of Newark the odds are a person would win the lottery before terrorists would use the machines to launch an attack.

 

Wait, but somebody out there wins some type of lottery every single day. And the Wisconsin Lottery tells me that 'odds are, I'll like them'. Somewhere between the two, I think I'm in serious code red danger here.

[DatHoser]

Let's all run home, put plastic sheeting over the windows and doors, and don't come out ever again.http://static.yuku.com//domainskins/bypass/img/smileys/eyes.gif

 

I think JoeHova nailed with the territorial stuff. Greed can be a powerful weapon.

[Fatter than Joey]

I like seeing big gumball machines set up, because I know if I am ever being chased by baby Godzillas I can tip a gumball machine over and escape.

 

Who eats gumballs anymore?

[DatHoser]

Who eats gumballs anymore?

I know that 5 & 8 year old boys do.

[Invader3K]

This is like the old wives tale about the poison Halloween candy, which if you read about at snopes.com, has never happened in the US.

[hawing]

I think I'm in serious code red danger here.

 

Ah, ccbrew, you don't want to know what's in the red gumballs.