Rules That Were Supposed to Help But Ended up a Big Fail

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Vendetta at the Vending Machines

Freshman year of high school we had access to vending machines for drinks and snacks. Senior and Junior classes beat those machines up terribly to the point they were cutting the power cords with bolt cutters and continually breaking/scratching/defacing the graphics, or spraypainting the vending machines with black so you couldn’t see inside. Cut to next year, and the machines have been revoked for only senior use. They were enclosed in lockable outside areas and while you couldn’t get into them outside of the senior lunch period, you could climb over the wall and get into them and then climb onto them to get back out. We had upwards of 50 students get stuck in there in an attempt to get snacks and a drink between classes, and the rule was revoked pretty fast. They eventually got rid of the machines and opened a snack bar at the school, but it was pretty funny walking passed there during passing period and seeing a kid stuck, unable to climb back out.