# Free money from Coke machines

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-money-from-coke-machines/22328>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 14, 2000, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-money-from-coke-machines/22328 "2000-06-14T10:24:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-money-from-coke-machines/22328/41 "2000-06-19T20:20:52Z")

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…because all the vending machines around here are well-lit and out in the open 😉  
Anyway, I read somewhere that if you get a $1 bill, and make a tear about 1" long into the side 1/3 of the way down (say, at the end of the block containing the words “ONE DOLLAR” on the front), you can get a free coke. The machine swallows the bill far enough to be “paid” and dispense the product, then spits it out because of the tear. Like I said, I’ve never tried it, but I’ve heard that it works.  
Slightly OT, but in the spirit of the thread: the pay phones at my high school didn’t keep your money–they’d drop the coins out the return slot a few seconds after hanging up. Everybody knew (including the administration, who I assume put the phones up to make money), but nobody ever fixed 'em. Is this a genuine malfunction, or d’ya think the admin. had them rigged to give us free calls? (maybe to boost morale 😕 )

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**Author:** ![StompyGodzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@StompyGodzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StompyGodzilla)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2000, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/free-money-from-coke-machines/22328/42 "2000-06-19T21:00:17Z")

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> \*\*  
> right chuffed - extremely pleased with oneself  
> 12 year old with 20 quid - surely the richest kid in the playground  
> guv - governor. Much loved slang of cockneys, used to address someone respectfully. e.g. Look guv, I can ‘av a look at yer drains on Thursd’, but I can’t get the materials for the roof until next week.  
> honest guv - purposefully ironic admission of guilt.  
> \*\*

Oh, hey. My boss calls me ‘guv’. I’m really chuffed to learn it means he respects me.

Unless he’s just taking the piss…

😕

Stompy

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