Frustrated Woman Sets Vending Machine on Fire

By Melissa Locker, TIME

Frustrated Woman Sets Vending Machine on Fire

October 18, 2012 Updated Oct 18, 2012 at 4:00 PM PDT

There are few things in life more frustrating than carefully feeding your money into a vending machine and then having nothing happen. No soda, no change back. So, what do you do? Whack the machine? Kick it?

Debra Johnson tried to burn the whole thing to the ground.

Authorities say the 43-year-old was caught on a surveillance camera shoving newspaper into a 7-Up vending machine outside a Piggly Wiggly in New Bern, N.C. She then lit the newspaper on fire, grabbed a soda from a different vending machine and walked away.

The fire melted the vending machine, destroying its contents and about $35 in change, KLTV reported.

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