# Condom Machine Blasts Into Orbit. No Astronauts Involved. Newslink **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 28, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562 "2015-12-28T14:30:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/1 "2015-12-28T14:30:26Z")
Who the Fresh Hell does this? > [@](#): > > The 29-year-old had rigged the contraception dispenser in the German town of Münster with a homemade bomb so he could blast it open and steal the change inside. > **[Man dies in condom machine explosion](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/man-dies-trying-blow-up-7080674)** > > The 29-year-old, who died in hospital after being hit in the head with some shrapnel, had been trying to steal the coins inside He then won the Darwin Award. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/2 "2015-12-28T15:51:05Z")
You just know that alcohol played a part in planning that little theft. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/3 "2015-12-28T16:27:07Z")
He got stiffed. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/4 "2015-12-28T21:15:29Z")
Reminds me of the Viagra shipment that was stolen by a gang of hardened criminals. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/5 "2015-12-28T21:24:52Z")
Living in the land of the asshole idiot puritans, it makes me happy, sad, and gobsmacked that there’s a condom machine just sitting out there on the street!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/6 "2015-12-29T00:03:24Z")
Yes, one day America will become enlightened, and we will be able to buy condoms openly at retail outlets like drugstores, supermarkets and convenience stores (few outside the country realize that in our current Puritan culture, condoms are only available by prescription to married men, and then only with permission from their clergymen). ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/7 "2015-12-29T00:18:50Z")
But the wife has no input. In fact, she should object as it would be a barrier between her and her wifely duty except, being a woman, no one would pay any attention, or throw her in the stocks as a scold. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/8 "2015-12-29T02:18:45Z")
How much money would one expect to find in a condom machine? Seems like a parking meter would be more profitable. How much did they spend blowing the thing up? Well besides the cost of one life. ---
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/9 "2015-12-29T12:08:05Z")
> [@boytyperanma](#): > > How much money would one expect to find in a condom machine? Seems like a parking meter would be more profitable. How much did they spend blowing the thing up? Well besides the cost of one life. well, round here, down near the college in fact, there is a hole store that sells nothing butt condoms ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2015, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/condom-machine-blasts-into-orbit-no-astronauts-involved-newslink/741562/10 "2015-12-29T12:44:56Z")
> [@guestchaz](#): > > well, round here, down near the college in fact, there is a hole store that sells nothing butt condoms Sounds rather discriminatory. 😃