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MILFORD, Iowa —A 27-year-old man has lost his job and Iowa unemployment benefits for using a forklift on a malfunctioning vending machine. The Des Moines Register says Robert McKevitt had deposited money in a vending machine last fall, but the candy bar he wanted wouldn't fall. State unemployment records say his banging and rocking the machine didn't work, so McKevitt commandeered a forklift, picked up the machine at least six times and dropped it on the floor at the Polaris Industries' warehouse in Milford. Three candy bars fell. In a ruling released last month, a judge denied McKevitt's claim for...

It's a toddler's dream: locked in a world of lollipops. But the situation rapidly turned into a mother's nightmare as two-year-old Cohen Stone became trapped inside an arcade machine. Attracted by the colourful prizes of sweets and teddy bear.

We've all done it (especially people like NJ Gov-Elect Chris Christie and me). You pass the snack machine filled with tasty Kit Kat Bars, Reeses, or Chocolate Chip Cookies and that chocolate gene buried with-in one of your chromosomes starts working and you start digging into your pocket for every quarter possible, in order to sate those taste buds demanding the taste of chocolate. House speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to ruin that experience, the most powerful woman in the world wants to regulate Snack Machines giving the vending industry a bill of $56+ million the first year.