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Robert McKevitt, 27, just wanted a candy bar from the vending machine. He put in a dollar, pushed the button for a 90-cent Twix bar, and watched as the bar got stuck on the spiral hook. “I was, like, ‘Oh, man’,” said McKevitt. “So I put in another dollar, and then it wouldn’t do anything.” He banged and rocked the machine and when that didn’t knock it loose, he reportedly took things to the next level. Since he was working in Polaris Industries’ warehouse in Milford, Iowa, there was a forklift available. McKevitt allegedly used the forklift to lift the machine and drop it to the ground several times, knocking three candy bars into the bottom, where McKevitt retrieved them. He was fired five days later. McKevitt denies the allegations and says he just used the forklift to put the machine back in place after he shook it. “That machine was trouble,” he said. “They fired me, and now I hear they have all new vending machines there.” (MS/Des Moines Register) ...Well yeah: somehow the old ones were all smashed up by a forklift.