In 1980’s New York, there were these people that would jam turnstile slots with something like gum wrappers. Then they’d wait for someone to stick a coin in, and go suck it out with their mouth. All for $1.50.
Of course, tellers started catching on. It became an epidemic, and the victims who put the coins in would be let through because it wasn’t their fault. They were losing a lot of money.
They began putting chili powder and mace to stop the kids, but the coin-suckers would just come back with buckets of water, throw them on the turnstile slots, and then throw the rest on the tellers.
Of course, there are so many diseases in that line of work. Many often fell ill and couldn’t continue or even died.
But police officers could do nothing about it. The only real solution was putting a cop at every single turnstile, but that could never happen.
Finally, New York was forced to get rid of the turnstile slots. The system couldn’t stop them, so they were forced to change it. Maybe the coin-suckers didn’t set out to change things, but they did.
I think that all is really beautiful.
But I want to know if buying gum became suspicious, because many often used the wrappers to stuff in the machine. How did they carry buckets of water without people noticing? Who taught them?
Roodharigendag is a Dutch festival celebrating natural redheads. I looked at pictures, and there isn’t a single person there that doesn’t look like a natural redhead. But I have many questions.
There has to be people that aren’t naturally redheads but try to get in anyways. How forceful are they with removing them? Is it like a “Hey, please leave”? Because I feel like there would still be people who found a way in.
Is it like beat-you-down-to-the-ground and the last thing you see are waves of red hair?
There have to be wigs and things. Is there a test you have to pass?
Furthermore, I read an article supporting Roodharigendag because apparently redheads are often discriminated against. They compared themselves to African-Americans, who were literally enslaved for hundreds of years.
There was also a man that ran a mob in Japan, but he was caught recently in Thailand because his tattoos went viral on the Internet. He was just living the life of a modest farmer with a modest wife, but his former employees still brought him money.
