Best Idea Ever: Gumball Machine Sells ... Ideas!

1. bean
   July 10th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

   Half a dollar for a fortune cookie without the cookie? What a ripoff.

2. Jake D.
   July 10th, 2008 at 3:25 pm

   I know a few characters in the East village who would rather have the 50 cents. But still I'm curious to see what it is.

   Does Sarah know where this is located exactly?

3. matt
   July 10th, 2008 at 4:01 pm

   Idea #1: Covert gumball machine to idea machine.

4. matt
   July 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

   Idea #2: Buy some gum.

5. Tim Giachetti
   July 10th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

   "Penny for a gumball Mickey!'

6. ted
   July 10th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

   I remember when ideas used to cost a nickel.

7. kay
   July 10th, 2008 at 7:02 pm

   ha! where do you get those things? or how do you start that up?

8. CheeseDuck
   July 10th, 2008 at 7:31 pm

   Man. I still remember when ideas were free.

9. MightyCow
   July 10th, 2008 at 10:10 pm

   Idea #3: Consider working on your impulse control.

10. anni
    July 11th, 2008 at 1:13 am

    oh my god, where is this?! i'd love to try it out

11. squeezed grapes
    July 11th, 2008 at 1:59 am

    People are talking -

    - and people are leaving.

    America could turn into martial law tomorrow and many of us wouldn't be surprised one bit. Most of us would continue licking our XBOXes and WIIs, posting on our blogs, and paying taxes to the dictatorship, whining about where the money goes while continuing to fund the source of their frustration.

    Unmanned drones flying over forests looking for marijuana (didn't George Washington say something about spreading the hemp seed? Yes, hemp and marijuana differences, I know),

    helicopters with FLIR gazing at infrared screens,

    all in an effort to prevent citizens from growing their own medicine.

    The street price of marijuana stays up high, rather than plummeting through legalization to the price of green tea, drug lords giggling along with corrupt law enforcement, people paying and begging their doctors for less effective, addictive pills to pop,

    No coffins being shown on American TV news, it's all about distraction,

    Two parties anally stuffed by Corporations and Big Pharma,

    Non violent drug offenders and file sharers thrown into prison to be anally raped by gang members and introduced into the possibility of dying from AIDS,

    Katrina opened the eyes of many around the world,

    The television is the worst drug of them all, and it's legal,

    People programmed to obey,

    Hallucinogenic plants demonized (war on perception, control the media control the mind), medical studies of these plants eliminated for years,

    (Read Food of the Gods by Terence Mckenna)

    Marijuana still Schedule I with no medicinal benefit which is a lie, while Foxglove and Datura are legal and both could easily kill you if misused,

    People are moving OUT of America, they are tired of the brainwashing, "If you don't like it here leave" "No, I'll stay and make a difference" doesn't matter any more, the system in America refuses change.

    When you love your country but everyone around you is asleep and no one wants to participate in their local government because they are all too busy working to pay taxes and ever rising costs on everything in a fake economy, when and where does change happen?

    The NL is looking more and more attractive every day.

    Learn a second language and investigate your options, or get involved in your local government and work for change. If you value your privacy use Tor (torproject.org), GPG (gnupg.org) with the enigmail plugin add-on for Thunderbird, Truecrypt (truecrypt.org) and an open source operating system like Ubuntu Linux (https://shipit.ubuntu.com).

12. c-dub
    July 11th, 2008 at 7:03 am

    Lighten up, squeezed grapes, it's just a gumball machine.

13. Candice
    July 11th, 2008 at 7:36 am

    Not sure but this looks like the bodega on Ave A right across Tompkins Square Park. If remember correctly between 9th and 10th Sts. But don't quote me on that.

14. dragon tryst
    July 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am

    want to know what percentage of the population is really stupid? its in most states around 73.3 people. now, what makes you think that they aren't the ones putting the ideas in?

15. dragon tryst
    July 11th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    I think this is the place I got the idea to get this V E R Y weird hairstyle. =d

16. jodie
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:49 am

    a big fat LOL for the “Penny for a gumball Mickey!" post. my husband and i quote that commercial all the time - but we quote this part...whenever one has some cash in hand.

    kid #1 "what're you gonna do with all that money?

    kid #2 "buy more gumballs!"

17. Thomas
    July 11th, 2008 at 11:19 am

    Idea: buy a gumball machine and sell ideas for the low, low price of 25 cents.

18. RM
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    I wonder if the balls say "buy another idea".

19. Alex Jepson
    July 12th, 2008 at 9:56 pm

    This guy seems to be the responsible party:

    http://zoomdoggle.com/2008/07/meet-the-fun-o-meter/

20. Amer Alame
    August 6th, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    dude ... i have never seen such an original idea put in a bulk vending machine. Like anything sells these days it seems.

21. Gumball Machines
    August 6th, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Where was this gumball machine at ????

22. rbidk
    August 24th, 2008 at 9:35 am

    get refills for these machines at http://www.gumballcity.com/bulk_gumballs.php

23. ssplllat
    September 30th, 2009 at 9:25 pm

    THIS MACHINE IS FROM ZOOMDOGGLE!!... its 50 cents but they give u a quarter in the ball! haha u missed out

24. rachelgreen
    November 13th, 2009 at 8:19 am

    I think this machine is brilliant! Whoever made this must have earn him a fortune right now. I'll try to research and make custom written papers out of it.

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