Haha, if only! Honestly I doubt it would be even heavy enough to go through an arcade machine's coin validation chute. The gumball works though because you physically crank it through the mechanism. If it fits, it ships! Really though, some of those 80s games had so many quarter chomping cheap deaths I wouldn't even feel bad.
It costs 3 cents to make a penny. Try and wrap your head around that. All of a sudden it isn't that surprising the west is constantly in various economic depressions lol
@@c_n_b There's nothing illegal about making metal discs. What you use them for is up to you, it's like saying a pen is illegal because it has nefarious uses.
@bjorn1583 can't save anything if you aren't getting paid 😅 I mean I've seen prison jobs that pay up to 25 cents per day. Not to mention if you live the whole 25 and don't get shanked.
It's actually a really cosy feeling that years doen the line he has had a family he is in his bed lying down smoki g a joint watching trailer park boys and wham the feds bust in for the quater that he made 10 years ago
@@cl0ckwxrk you do know it's a felony to print counterfeit currency, period. Right? It doesn't matter what the purpose is, or how good it is. The only caveat is if the currency SAYS replica/prop/etc on the currency itself.
I used to steal the plastic coins we used in school to help us count money, then id use em in vending machines or at Chuck E. Cheese i would be set for a week at a time
The quarter on a string is reusable. This is a 1 time use blank to cheat simple coin mechs. A lot of modern units are designed to detect weight and conductivity to stop people from grinding pennies down to the size of dimes.
I use to glue two 5c pieces together, then spray paint them gold in the art room at school. They passed as 2 dollar coins for around 6minths till some snitch ruined it. Then we had to use our limited skills to short change then someone else snitched.. now there's 3d printing technology and this dude just snitched. Can't break that cycle man..
Back when plastic bottles had those hard to peel out sealants underneath the cap, you could fold them in half and use those instead. Thing is it would turn continuously over and over as much as you please.
I’ll never forget back in 4th grade social studies there was a gumball machine(one of the big ones where the ball rolls down a whole slide so it was fun to do) in the back of the room and we had a bunch of mini tests on the computer and if u got a 100 u got to get a gumball but after u finish the test it tells you the answer to the ones u got wrong so me and my friend just took turns giving each other answers so we could both get gum balls, good times
Little known fact that it is indeed the secret service that deals with counterfeit currency. In fact, it was created for that very purpose and the whole protecting-the-president thing didn't start until later.
Would be the secret service. I don't think they'd make an arrest in this case considering he's not actually using the currency, I'm pretty sure that's more "angry letter" territory. If this counts as counterfeiting. Seems more equivalent to the apocryphal quarter on a string trick.
@@TooFewSecretsi think they were referring to a different kid that sees this video and then tries it and gets arrested.. you are correct though as the Secret Service is what handles cases of counterfeit currency. Most adults that see this would probably think of using it on those stupid claw games for their kids to play to win a toy or a laundromat.
When I was a kid in the early 90s, a friend and I would made molds of a Putt-Putt arcade token in clay soil and cast them with melted fishing weights we'd find at the creek. . . and sometimes "borrow" from the sporting goods store. We smoothed out the irregularities by scraping them against the sidewalk. Our tokens only worked on the older videogame machines. However, they also worked on the coin pusher, which was full of real tokens. We did it so much, the managers and other employees started sneaking up on anyone using the pusher.
@@Loktuzov Yeah, I never really got into anything I could get in serious trouble over, and certainly never documented or broadcast my crimes to the world. Except for now, I guess, but I'm sure it's way past the statute of limitations for stolen arcade plays.
That would be a similar system to the locking shopping trolleys. I dont know if you have it over there, but in the UK, some supermarkets have shopping carts that are locked together, and the only way you can get them apart is to put a pound coin in the handle, which is then spat out when you lock it back up. Lots of places sell pound coin sized keyrings for this. Another example I can think of is swimming pool lockers.
When it gets to be a common enough a problem the company renting the washer/ dryer machines to laundromats are going to have to figure out a way to fix that exploit
@@lillyanneserrelio2187 Pretty easy fix: "Bring your $ to the teller and they will hand you 1 - 100 use card that scan to be able to use the washer & dryer."
Back in the early 2000's, people used to use what my grandma called "slugs" in our washing machines instead of quarters. They were smooth, quarter sized pieces of metal. The machine took them every time and we regularly lost money. 🙄
Oh yeah I remember doing this with some washers that fit perfectly in the coin slot so I just used those for like a year until we had our own washing machine
When I was a kid growing up in the Philippines on a military base, their 25 centavo coin was the exact same size as our quarter, but maybe worth a penny. We used them in arcade machines all the time.
@@ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName So military bases have housing for the people who work there. And sometimes the people who work there have kids who live in said housing.
@@ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName The U.S. at one time had military bases there. We lived at San Miguel for one year and Subic Bay for two back in the late 70's/early 80's.
Bonus fact: a counterfeit coin specifically meant to trick vending machines and other coin op machines is called a slug. Like the one line from that old song I’m Getting Nuttin’ For Christmas: “Bought some gum with a penny slug, Somebody snitched on me.” I haven’t heard the term used by anyone in a long time. The New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn has displays of many different slugs that people used to ride for free before the MTA stopped using tokens as fare.
@@master_59kg The U.S. legal system doesn't care about facts and logic, disobey and it's jail time! After all, the land of the free has more prisoners than any country on the planet! Both per capita _and_ in total.
Ironically, stamping 6 cents worth of copper and nickle into a slug and calling it a "quarter-dollar" is also counterfeiting, according to the Coinage Act of 1792, and was punishable by death.
When I was a kid I used to go to the arcade at the movie theater and play all the games I wanted all day because i discovered that nickels worked instead of quarters or tokens. $5 lasted me all day. Good times.
I tried something like that several decades ago and it didn't work. Also got confronted by those quarter guys asking about exchanging nickels for quarters. You lucked out.
A lot of problems in Japan with the 500 yen coin being largely counterfeited due to its value. Machines had been tricked accepting 500 Korean won coins (1/10 of yen value) as 500 yen. The coin has been redesigned to increase security.
I remember playing at the arcades with my cousin and brother. I ran out of quarters and had a few dimes and nickels. So I went to the change machine in hopes of putting in 2 dimes and a nickel to get a quarter (I was young). Of course the dime came out. I did the same with a nickel and it came out. Put it in again while holding the coin return and out it came yet again. But when I out it in once more it spat out about $5 in quarters. I thought I broke the change machine. 5 cents = $5. The next time I went back, there was a screw in the coin slot.
They ripped that off from pinkie and the brain. "Hey Brain what are we going to do tonight!" "Same thing we do every night pinkie... try to take over the world!!!"
@@neowolf09 I think it could count when you tried to use them. If just caught with them in your pocket it's obviously not money and you could easily say you had no intention of trying to pass it off as real money. But once you use them, even if the quality is bad, you're trying to pass something you made as real money.
Bro could really multiply his money by 25 times by getting 1 cent gumball from a bunch of machines, and then putting them in his own machine for 25 cents 💀
this reminds me of a time where I took a quarter, traced it over some cardboard and cut it out, stuck it in a gumball machine, and it worked; I was in fifth grade at the time and committing crimes lol
@@TylerTheBassCreator it probably did, people have being doing exactly this for decades. This video is just a waste of time. The piece of cardboard doesn't even need to be quarter shaped. You can open them with a pair of tweezers too, just need to push the latch that the quarter normally pushes. The gumball machines have always been incredibly easy to steal from.
When I was little, I used to always eat these small gummy candies coated with chocolate that was sold in a long tube. For both the ends of the tube, you can pop out the thin circular piece that sealed it. I remember me and my brother had the idea to trace a quarter on the piece and cut it out and see if we could use it in vending machines. The circular piece is a little thinner than a quarter, but IT WORKED. We ended up doing it quite a few times and I can only imagine the annoyance of people who collect the coins
You know how boxes of shoes have holes cut out in the sides of the boxes? When I was a kid I went to a shoe store and gathered a ton of the cardboard circles from the holes and when we were leaving I stuck them in the candy machine at the entrance and it worked lol
Honestly I’m surprised it wasn’t cleaner. Either the original model wasn’t all that polished or he just didn’t have his printer set to print thin layers. I’ve done .04mm layer lines and it’s very close to the seamless models you get from resin prints
@@judas1523 I’d recommend getting one now while there are so many competing brands. It keeps the price down and keeps the quality up. A lot of beginners or hobbyists are just using things like Ender printers or Elegoo. I’m personally using a first gen Elegoo and it hasn’t let me down once. New entry-grade printers typically cost between $125-$250
I work for a guy who owns all those gumball machine you see in the mall, I clean them, refill them, and empty and count the money. You’d be surprised at what crazy coins and coin shaped things people try to use.
This reminds me of when I befriended the new girl and she invited me to her slumber party. She wasn’t in my class, but she invited her entire class and only a few kids showed up. Regardless, I felt like the odd one out, so, as they were playing The Voice, I went upstairs to explore her room. On her dresser, there was a gumball machine and a Chuck E Cheese token. I put the token in the machine, but it got stuck. I went downstairs and told my friend to come with me and told the others to stay behind. They followed us anyways. When my friend tried to get the token unstuck, she accidentally shattered the glass of the gumball machine. Gumballs went all over her room and it was a free-for-all. And, somehow, despite all that, we became BFFs, and we’re still best friends to this day. Next month will be the 10th anniversary of our friendship and, last July, I gave her a new gumball machine for her college dorm. Edit: For those claiming I made this up, here’s video proof from July 2022: th-cam.com/users/shortsPn_z4NHmIOg Also, please stop assuming that I’m a guy in the friendzone. I’m not a guy and she’s been like a sister to me for many years now.
She wasn't alarmed you took it upon yourself to leave the group go into someone's room you barely know by yourself? I don't know... I certainly wouldn't appreciate that from someone new.
@@spider0804Nah, I'm actually happy it's one of the more realistic stories. Not the basic bs, "we became friends, now it's our 10th anniversary since marriage".
@@Igh86 your daughter is a literal thief and everyone who she shared that stolen contraband with is complicit and need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Dude is teaching us how to counterfeit money. The real hero. I’m gonna have 7,000 gumballs and those sticky walk walker things but the end of this week.
honestly if I was a gumball machine designer the first thing I'd do would be making sure it can't complete a turn with the coin still in the slot. Can't expect gravity to do all the work
My brother 3D printed a keychain attachment that was coin-shaped for my mom, so she could use that instead of scrounging around the car every time we needed a coin for a shopping cart. Like, you know those shopping carts that you need to insert a coin in order to unattach it from the one in front of it? Yeah, haven't had to stress about forgetting a coin for one of those in a long while.
That's so cool! Over here in the UK many retailers sold these, they were a simple piece of metal in the shape of a pound coin and different places would sell them with different engravings/designs. They were called trolley coins. I feel like a lot of them fell out of use when our pound coin changed shape, but you can probably still get updated ones from online.
@@ItsPREPP98 Not that I disagree with you, the whole thing is really stupid, but it is technically free since you get your coin back when you put it back in the corral and "plug" the cart in front back in. They say it's incentive for people to put away their carts but all it really does is make things harder for people with physical disabilities (nowhere to put them away near handicap parking spots since it's "prime parking") and prevent homeless people from stealing their carts.
This kind of reminds me of the makeshift tokens used in the NYC subway before the metro card was introduced as a method for fare evasion. You can find the tokens on display at the NYC transit museum.
Similar situation with wooden nickels used in slot machines, displayed at the Las Vegas Mob Museum! :D...I imagine less grisly fates for those who simply evaded NYC fares tho...
I have one of those with a square punched through the center on my keychain, along with a penny with a heart punched through it. I'm old and can't remember where I got either of them.
Short answer: yes. When I was 12, my mom worked overnights in a flower distributing warehouse and I would go with her. We didn't have the money for the snack vending machines, so one night I found a thin, but very sturdy piece of cardboard, traced a quarter, and used some floral shears to cut out as many quarters as I use. They were somehow heavy enough to do the trick! I had free snacks for a week before my mom's boss made an announcement about the cardboard quarters and holding whomever is doing that "personally responsible". I was never so scared in my life - I fessed up to my mom that it was me and she said she would lose her job if I didn't stop. She never ratted me out, but I never did it again. 😂
"No problem first try" *The Federal Government disliked that* Edit: ayo 31k likes is crazy Edit to the Edit: too bad i didnt do this on my TH-cam channel instead of my personal account T^T 30k for a throwaway comment that made me chuckle is insane thanks
I did that with a piece of cardboard the same thickness as a coin and it worked when I was about 11 or 12. In my mid forties now but was Funny as hell at the time, as I never thought it would work, I did it just as an experiment. I was friends with the hamburger shop owner who owned the gum-ball dispenser, so I told him what I just did, he laughed at first as I handed him the gum ball, then like a true father figure clouted me around the head, then made me clean his grill. We were still good friends after that. He always threw me a gum ball as I walked past or came in to buy milk, as a personal joke but also as a reminder that he was watching me. Miss ya Spiro! You made the best Aussie burger ever, and were a great friend.
@@davidkinkade81 a lot of old ones actually check the ridges, back in the good ol' day of silver coins people would scrape off the ridges for some of the silver while keeping the coin mostly intact
Fun fact: in Panama they use U.S. currency, but also have their own currency called balboas. A .25 cent piece Balboa is the exact same size and weight as an American quarter and will work in American vending machines.
The thing about those vintage crank machines, is it's about the weight, not just the size. (Source: parents owned a small business with these when i was in school)
Glad to see someone here isn't clueless, so many people seem to think that just size alone is enough but weight has been a factor with many of these kinds of machines since the Victorian Era, and, became pretty common by around the 1980's in the West, not sure what things are like in the East as I have never left Western Europe.
Either weight or pressure pressure is a big factor main thing is has to apply pressure to the pin i recently bought a few machines myself and was seeing for my self what it would take since obviously I couldn’t break them without worrying and can access the coin mech
No the old ones had nothing to do with wait at all. You place a quarter sized item in there with the right thickness and then you turn it it doesn't go out the slot which would reject other coins, instead it goes past that and then pushes across the mechanism that would stop the dial just like a lock
"do not try at home"
**Sadly puts away 3D printer**
*pat* ah chin up sport
@@DevonLaddpoochin up support
**me 3d printing counterfeit currency at grandma's** 😎
Fine I'll do it at the mall 😈
Yolo, print one anyway!
I wonder why "quarter-shaped" things aren't easy to buy online. I looked one time.
Also the fact that there’s almost zero profit margin…
@@Lovey_18 sell a box of 100 for $2 and make a dollar a box
@@smortypot and shipping? Will certainly cost more than 1$
@@Lovey_18 I didn’t say it was e-commerce, sell it to kids around campus or sumthin
@@Lovey_18 tack that onto the bill as a separate expense
You ain't gangster until you commit felonies to get gumballs
You mean federal offense?
@Dark Justice a felony is a federal offense
I've had that wolf as my school pfp since 6th grade
Cause of execution: stealing a gumball
or do laundry
Goverment: inflation raised because a dude 3d printed a quarter somewhere
Somewhere 😂
On foe nem
@@Gofroze let's get it
It cant be used as a quarter, the machine just detects the shape
@@Speed-TV i rhink we saw that in the video my guy 😂
"You wouldn't download a gumball...but you would download change for one"
Damn we’ve come a long way
Downloaded gumballs have zero nutritional value.
@@sunnybatman2578 and u cant eat it plus that's not y he made the video it's to see if it works
@@brittanyhall888 you don't eat real gumballs either.
Dude, in this economy I'd download a house and a car if I could
"hey did you know that it actually only cost one penny to get a gumball, but people are using quarters?"
Underrated comment.
WHAT?!(
@@theechickengamerz that's bassicly what he said ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Plus printer and learning skill.
@@brunovazquez1He means buying them in a pack. Gum balls are cheaper in a pack than a gun all machine
We needed you in the 1980s in video game arcades!
Haha, if only! Honestly I doubt it would be even heavy enough to go through an arcade machine's coin validation chute. The gumball works though because you physically crank it through the mechanism. If it fits, it ships!
Really though, some of those 80s games had so many quarter chomping cheap deaths I wouldn't even feel bad.
This would have been great to use as a placeholder on a machine instead of your quarter to save your spot as next to play
That’s the most inexpensive felony I’ve ever seen.
But he said it’s his gum ball machine so I don’t see the problem
😂😂😂😂
@@Actually_nobody_ever destroying currency is a felony :)
@@Voltechsbut when did he do that and who asked?
@@Voltechs when did he destroy anything
FBI watch list activated
Yea, don't play with counterfeiting.
They'll burn you just to make a point so other people don't try it.
Lol
Incorrect, it’s secret service for this
They're going to be assigning gumball machines armed guards now
@@helpy8973 No they'll just kick in his door at 3am and throw him in prison for 25 years.
Seriously, don't mess with this.
Time to get 25 gumballs for the price of a single quarter
hehe
For the price of a single 3d printer **
@@Cloudoru my brother has a broken one if we fix that then we can make quarters
That’s a misdemeanor each gumball.
@@featherthefury2373 no way that's crazy
A penny for a quarter? Now that’s a good deal
Wait a sec-
No hold on thats right. I’m not that only person who read that wrong, right?
It costs 3 cents to make a penny.
Try and wrap your head around that.
All of a sudden it isn't that surprising the west is constantly in various economic depressions lol
Natralizes our inflation
It hurts my brain that “a penny for a quarter” and “a quarter for a penny” can mean the same thing in English.
Imagine looking at what you made from a gum ball machine over a month just to find a ton of these
Lmao💀
Tbh i just gonna paint it and sell it as a monopoly money or token of some sort
lmao
Then they never fill them up again and we lose something else cool in the world because of people doing things like this in the first place
@@i_hate_youtube_handles_it_sux True. Don't get me wrong, it's genius. But doing this will make others not want to set these machines up anymore
“No problem first try you got a felony”
Shut up
Dont ruin our fun
i caught the joke but i also want to add that stealing a gumball worth 25 cents isnt a felony or really a crime worth prosecuting at all
There are no consequences but I would get rid of the fingerprints before I even try it
@@bbborboIt's not the stealing part. It's creating and using counterfeit currency. You'd be in far less trouble just stealing the whole machine.
@@Insanity_Wolf not counterfeit because it doesn’t have a $ amount and also it isn’t printing out what’s on the quarter
Oh, the feds gon' be visiting this dude one these days.
Yeah only they’re allowed to print more money
Lol
Yep, inciting criminal activity. Technically illegal.
@@c_n_b There's nothing illegal about making metal discs. What you use them for is up to you, it's like saying a pen is illegal because it has nefarious uses.
@@AcolyteOfLucifer L comparison
“It only cost me about one penny and 25 years of federal prison.”
25 years of free food and rent, you will save a truck load
@bjorn1583 can't save anything if you aren't getting paid 😅 I mean I've seen prison jobs that pay up to 25 cents per day. Not to mention if you live the whole 25 and don't get shanked.
@@StevenStayton-gi4gz not having to spend for something is a saving, it dont matter how you want to spin it
It's fun to imagine getting sent to a federal prison over 25 cents.
It's actually a really cosy feeling that years doen the line he has had a family he is in his bed lying down smoki g a joint watching trailer park boys and wham the feds bust in for the quater that he made 10 years ago
@@mitchelrathbone7185 had a seizure reading this
@@peanut7194тоже
"25 cents, that's all it takes"
Not over a gumball lol
my man’s literally printing money 💀💀💀
My hero
😂💀
Can’t wait for the paper printers
No wait-
@@imabotcommentok9783 why your user says commentok? Was it supposed to be commenter but you miss clicked it or it’s just some hidden lore about ya
NICE ONE
*"The FBI will remember that."*
But how about a dollar bill?
@@Pearloryx lol
It's actually the Secret Services job to investigate counterfeit money, just a fun fact
Actually this is under the jurisdiction of the Secret Service.
I hope the FBI and secret service come to this guy every time someone finds one of these in a gumball machine.
Need to make one with “thanks for the Gumball chump” engraved
Ah yes, the daily "How to commit a felony" video
Only if you get caught.
@@mim5454 > posts video of it on TH-cam
I've literally seen a guy burn canadian money a few mins ago lol
@@SouthernWolff bro it's his own machine
@@cl0ckwxrk you do know it's a felony to print counterfeit currency, period. Right? It doesn't matter what the purpose is, or how good it is. The only caveat is if the currency SAYS replica/prop/etc on the currency itself.
Getting my laundry done is about to be a whole lot cheaper
🤣🤣🤣
wont work on a laundry machine only gumball machines as they have no protection from theft.
laundry machines r pretty ez to rig if u got alil privacy lol
@@richbob9155 depends on what machine 😂
You know what. I ain’t even gonna judge as inflation is killing us.
I used to steal the plastic coins we used in school to help us count money, then id use em in vending machines or at Chuck E. Cheese i would be set for a week at a time
Doubtful....
Missed opportunity
You are a menace to society
Totally not inserting counterfeit currency into circulation.
Someone get this guy a Harvard scholarship
Someone's gonna build their own criminal empire because of this...
this is the modern-day equivalent of tying string around the quarter so you can pull it back out
if the string was made of a gold palladium Platinum titanium alloy
Mr Krabs
@Levek no, he probably meant exactly what you read
A method still employed by everybody's favorite Bender-bot, way into the future! ;)
The quarter on a string is reusable. This is a 1 time use blank to cheat simple coin mechs. A lot of modern units are designed to detect weight and conductivity to stop people from grinding pennies down to the size of dimes.
“Ferb I know what we’re going to do today!”
😂
Defraud a gum ball machine using plastic💀
I would like to award you the highest honor I can bestow: LOL
@@tinyportal I'll do you one better: *LMFAO*
@@BeastModeBMD I have a better one: *LMMFAO*
Betcha the government already has this video on their list
I use to glue two 5c pieces together, then spray paint them gold in the art room at school. They passed as 2 dollar coins for around 6minths till some snitch ruined it. Then we had to use our limited skills to short change then someone else snitched.. now there's 3d printing technology and this dude just snitched. Can't break that cycle man..
@@michaelrogers7386 🤣🤣🤣
@@michaelrogers7386 human ingenuity
Biden is out to get you!!!
I’m your 1000 like
Back when plastic bottles had those hard to peel out sealants underneath the cap, you could fold them in half and use those instead. Thing is it would turn continuously over and over as much as you please.
For all my fellas that go to the laundromat:
Ladies and gentlemen, we got em
Lol why was the laundromat my first thought
@NonProphetz It's the most useful for quarters
Who's laundromat still uses coins? The one's around here are all reloadable cards like prepaid debit cards but only for the laundromat.
@@rottnlove mines☠️
if you can afford a 3d printer you can buy a pretty cheap used washing machine
"Mom I need a 3d printer it will pay for it self inna few years"
Itself in a**
You’ll have all the gum balls, plastic rings, and stickers you could ever want.
But it cost a penny to 3d print a penny...
@@sunclove3554its printing a quarter…
@@daneearle9167 yep... I realized, so I tried to delete it, but then my phone wouldn't show it so I assumed it didn't post
Need this for my apartment’s coin operated laundry
Hey Elaine Benes didn't get away with it in Seinfeld might want to try it ,, ya know once lol
Yeah so those have laser metal detectors built in
Just get a key so u can get your coins back
I don’t think you should do that - it’s money laundering
Isn’t illegal if they don’t know
I’ll never forget back in 4th grade social studies there was a gumball machine(one of the big ones where the ball rolls down a whole slide so it was fun to do) in the back of the room and we had a bunch of mini tests on the computer and if u got a 100 u got to get a gumball but after u finish the test it tells you the answer to the ones u got wrong so me and my friend just took turns giving each other answers so we could both get gum balls, good times
Future politician, nothing to be proud of. A lie is a lie and stealing is stealing. Parental FAIL
Gum gum for dum dum 🗿
Secret Service has joined the chat.
IRS Sniper is on the neighbors roof with the scope on him. Just waiting for orders
*Take the shot*
Next you two gonna say “department of commerce sniper is on the roof” these mf people got no connection to the video
Lol more like the fbi. Edit: never mind I was wrong lmao I just googled it
Little known fact that it is indeed the secret service that deals with counterfeit currency. In fact, it was created for that very purpose and the whole protecting-the-president thing didn't start until later.
The federal reserve rn finding out you can print money:
👁️ 👄 👁️
We all know why we can't print money but what about 3D printing money?
This is such an amazing comment.
Have you seen pokemon cards them people can make money
Well they're allowed to do it, and always give it all to the already-rich people. Why not let us normal people do it?
@@ukkisragee9983 4d printing, money for now, later and before!
I already see headlines:
"Kid arrested by FBI after he used 3d printed money to get free bubblegum."
Would be the secret service. I don't think they'd make an arrest in this case considering he's not actually using the currency, I'm pretty sure that's more "angry letter" territory. If this counts as counterfeiting. Seems more equivalent to the apocryphal quarter on a string trick.
@@TooFewSecretsi think they were referring to a different kid that sees this video and then tries it and gets arrested.. you are correct though as the Secret Service is what handles cases of counterfeit currency. Most adults that see this would probably think of using it on those stupid claw games for their kids to play to win a toy or a laundromat.
Basically yes
Imagine *Florida Kid arrested for using a 3D Printed Quarter dollar to get a Gumball*
He waited his whole life for this moment.
Man, all those car wash, laundry mat, and arcade business people I watch are in trouble 😂
They also need to be the correct weight
@@Sprikers I was just joking but thanks for the heads up lol. I wash my own cars.
@@ihavenoclue9756 wait so u don't wash ur clothes
@@Delzqa1491 nope gotta wife for that
Most have moved to a card system
boutta buy a 3d printer and do free laundry for life
Buy a washing machine and accomplish the same thing 😂
Exactly !!
@@GraysonBackman 3d printing is cheaper
@@kornddawg until you get caught. Then it is suddenly far more expensive.
@@GraysonBackman except you have to pay for water and electricity that way
When I was a kid in the early 90s, a friend and I would made molds of a Putt-Putt arcade token in clay soil and cast them with melted fishing weights we'd find at the creek. . . and sometimes "borrow" from the sporting goods store. We smoothed out the irregularities by scraping them against the sidewalk. Our tokens only worked on the older videogame machines. However, they also worked on the coin pusher, which was full of real tokens. We did it so much, the managers and other employees started sneaking up on anyone using the pusher.
Damn. 90’s kids did crime way better than kids now
and here we are in 2022 with kids livestreaming themselves stealing cars
@@DeathnoteBB that's funny
@@Loktuzov
Yeah, I never really got into anything I could get in serious trouble over, and certainly never documented or broadcast my crimes to the world. Except for now, I guess, but I'm sure it's way past the statute of limitations for stolen arcade plays.
@@SewerTapes We got him boys 👮🚔
That would be a similar system to the locking shopping trolleys.
I dont know if you have it over there, but in the UK, some supermarkets have shopping carts that are locked together, and the only way you can get them apart is to put a pound coin in the handle, which is then spat out when you lock it back up. Lots of places sell pound coin sized keyrings for this.
Another example I can think of is swimming pool lockers.
imagine owning a gumball machine in a store and going to check it only to see pieces of printed plastic
YOOOO i will kill my wife 😂 💀
When it gets to be a common enough a problem the company renting the washer/ dryer machines to laundromats are going to have to figure out a way to fix that exploit
@@lillyanneserrelio2187 Pretty easy fix: "Bring your $ to the teller and they will hand you 1 - 100 use card that scan to be able to use the washer & dryer."
Modern problem requires modern solution
Epic
Dad: son why do you need a 3d printer
Son:so I can rob every gas station of its gum balls
the last work is kinda SUS
@@someone-mh5uf cringe
@@someone-mh5uf 😬
@@someone-mh5uf😕
@@someone-mh5uf still stuck in 2020 eh? I feel you 😔
Ed, Edd, n Eddy screaming and kicking on the ground right now
Aren't jaw breakers their thing though?
@@SunFlowerFromPvZ1 Yeah but they'd probably still go nuts for the gum or sell it to get money for the jawbreakers.
Lmfaooooo
That's like free crack to them
Next "WILL 3D PRINTED QUARTERS WORK AT A COINSTAR MACHINE"
Back in the early 2000's, people used to use what my grandma called "slugs" in our washing machines instead of quarters. They were smooth, quarter sized pieces of metal. The machine took them every time and we regularly lost money. 🙄
That’s so wild but so terribly cool at the same time 😭
Thanks for this, this helps me for a completely different reason than this video.
sell the metal
Oh yeah I remember doing this with some washers that fit perfectly in the coin slot so I just used those for like a year until we had our own washing machine
Sucks to be a business owner huh
When I was a kid growing up in the Philippines on a military base, their 25 centavo coin was the exact same size as our quarter, but maybe worth a penny. We used them in arcade machines all the time.
LMFAOOOOO thats evil
ON a military base..? im confused can u explain?
@@ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName So military bases have housing for the people who work there. And sometimes the people who work there have kids who live in said housing.
@@ForFucsSakeWhyDidYTchangmyName The U.S. at one time had military bases there. We lived at San Miguel for one year and Subic Bay for two back in the late 70's/early 80's.
@Melo what don't you understand? He said he grew up on base
This is called counterfeit ladies and gentlemen, and is a federal crime.
Imagine doing fed time for a gumball
Bonus fact: a counterfeit coin specifically meant to trick vending machines and other coin op machines is called a slug. Like the one line from that old song I’m Getting Nuttin’ For Christmas: “Bought some gum with a penny slug, Somebody snitched on me.” I haven’t heard the term used by anyone in a long time. The New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn has displays of many different slugs that people used to ride for free before the MTA stopped using tokens as fare.
This is not called counterfeit ladies and gentlemen. Just like cutting a paper rectangle isn't counterfeit
@@master_59kg The U.S. legal system doesn't care about facts and logic, disobey and it's jail time! After all, the land of the free has more prisoners than any country on the planet! Both per capita _and_ in total.
Ironically, stamping 6 cents worth of copper and nickle into a slug and calling it a "quarter-dollar" is also counterfeiting, according to the Coinage Act of 1792, and was punishable by death.
We catching a felony with this one yall
When I was a kid I used to go to the arcade at the movie theater and play all the games I wanted all day because i discovered that nickels worked instead of quarters or tokens. $5 lasted me all day. Good times.
Ladies and gentlemen, WE FOUND HIM
What a legend
I tried something like that several decades ago and it didn't work. Also got confronted by those quarter guys asking about exchanging nickels for quarters. You lucked out.
A lot of problems in Japan with the 500 yen coin being largely counterfeited due to its value. Machines had been tricked accepting 500 Korean won coins (1/10 of yen value) as 500 yen. The coin has been redesigned to increase security.
I remember playing at the arcades with my cousin and brother. I ran out of quarters and had a few dimes and nickels. So I went to the change machine in hopes of putting in 2 dimes and a nickel to get a quarter (I was young). Of course the dime came out. I did the same with a nickel and it came out. Put it in again while holding the coin return and out it came yet again. But when I out it in once more it spat out about $5 in quarters. I thought I broke the change machine. 5 cents = $5. The next time I went back, there was a screw in the coin slot.
Phineas: "Hey Ferb i know what were going to do today!"
😂😂😂😂best comment by far!
LMFAOOOOO
Perry*
They ripped that off from pinkie and the brain.
"Hey Brain what are we going to do tonight!"
"Same thing we do every night pinkie... try to take over the world!!!"
A man a culture I see.
"Son, Where did you get all this gum?"
Timmy Turner:
“Uhhh.. internet?”
"Works for me"
169th
These comments bro 😂🤣
and why is all my grey filament gone?
His parents must be so proud of his accomplishment. What an amazing man they raised.
"Do not try at home"
*goes to the store instead to try*
they didn't include home dawg
did you know you have access to 3d printer in public library?
💀
Boutta make a news article
"MAN SINGLE HANDEDLY ROBS THE GLOBE OF ALL GUMBALLS"
109 likes and no replies? Lemme fux that
@@Rushfromdoorsroblox blessed are those who fix
Today on action news, man caught filming video, making counterfeit quarters, and using for gumballs. When questioned, he simply said "i wanted gum
It is basically counterfeit money, but could you imagine going to jail for this and being asked what you're in for?
@@tonyblake7569 "Hey what are you in for"
"Murder, you?"
"I made a youtube video where i scamed a gumball machine."
@@tonyblake7569 actually since the one side is not made to look like a real quarter I don't think it counts as counterfeit.
@@neowolf09 I think it could count when you tried to use them. If just caught with them in your pocket it's obviously not money and you could easily say you had no intention of trying to pass it off as real money. But once you use them, even if the quality is bad, you're trying to pass something you made as real money.
@@neowolf09 then technically it's not intended as currency, so it's stolen
“Does a 3d printed assault rifle help you rob a bank?”
“And that kids is called a federal crime.”
The FBI is looking for a 3D-printed quarter owner.
It's the Secret Service who comes after counterfieters
Probably true.
Bro could really multiply his money by 25 times by getting 1 cent gumball from a bunch of machines, and then putting them in his own machine for 25 cents 💀
Yeah, but it's a felony.
^ says the man making a living off gimbal machines
printing the money prolly costs more than a quarter itself
@@Heisenberg175 no it cost 1 cent to print out it says it in the video
Until someone else does this and uses the penny ones on his machine lol
This would be perfect for Aldi carts.
this reminds me of a time where I took a quarter, traced it over some cardboard and cut it out, stuck it in a gumball machine, and it worked; I was in fifth grade at the time and committing crimes lol
No it didn't
@@TylerTheBassCreator it probably did, people have being doing exactly this for decades. This video is just a waste of time. The piece of cardboard doesn't even need to be quarter shaped. You can open them with a pair of tweezers too, just need to push the latch that the quarter normally pushes. The gumball machines have always been incredibly easy to steal from.
@@richbob9155 years ago there used to be circle knock outs in pizza boxes to let the steam escape. Those pieces worked perfectly in gumball machines
Looks like free parking is back on the menu, boys!
Won't be free. Says the quarter costs a penny.
@@W_Qimuel Still a huge discount
Parking meters dont exist in my town youre supposed to pay online or electronically
@@tmoney1487 3D print BitCoin!
@@W_Qimuelyeah cause filament. And? You pay lot for other expenses whats another 6 pennies.
"do not try this at home"
at home: and i took that personally
Lol
Cool username haha
the at home in question:
clever enough for a gunball machine 😂
When I was little, I used to always eat these small gummy candies coated with chocolate that was sold in a long tube. For both the ends of the tube, you can pop out the thin circular piece that sealed it. I remember me and my brother had the idea to trace a quarter on the piece and cut it out and see if we could use it in vending machines. The circular piece is a little thinner than a quarter, but IT WORKED. We ended up doing it quite a few times and I can only imagine the annoyance of people who collect the coins
😭
You know how boxes of shoes have holes cut out in the sides of the boxes? When I was a kid I went to a shoe store and gathered a ton of the cardboard circles from the holes and when we were leaving I stuck them in the candy machine at the entrance and it worked lol
you two could've used your powers for good but instead you chose EVILLLL
Meiji Muscat :?
genius
I would always dig into my dad’s toolbox and find washers that looked like quarters and use them in gumball machines
You were the reason the machines were always broken or jammed lol
You must've "cleaned" them out! (washer humor)
Genius
your dad: "where the hell do all my washers keep dissapearing to?"
you: "idk" *blows bubble*
wow i’m surprised at the ridges too. that’s some good definition. cant wait till 3D printing is smoother and sharper
Honestly I’m surprised it wasn’t cleaner. Either the original model wasn’t all that polished or he just didn’t have his printer set to print thin layers. I’ve done .04mm layer lines and it’s very close to the seamless models you get from resin prints
They are reeds, not ridges.
They already are smoother and sharper. People are building cars and houses with it.
@@leonbarua7712 from these comments it seems like it. my brothers 3D printer is just older i guess
@@judas1523 I’d recommend getting one now while there are so many competing brands. It keeps the price down and keeps the quality up. A lot of beginners or hobbyists are just using things like Ender printers or Elegoo. I’m personally using a first gen Elegoo and it hasn’t let me down once. New entry-grade printers typically cost between $125-$250
I work for a guy who owns all those gumball machine you see in the mall, I clean them, refill them, and empty and count the money. You’d be surprised at what crazy coins and coin shaped things people try to use.
Guy took printing money to another level
a 3d level
Mans already on somebody's watch list
I can now finally complete my Homies set without going broke
have you hugged a homie today?
@@beefstickswellington1203 all my homies get daily hugs
They stopped making those years ago, and there were only about 10 to 15 in the full set.
@@sylver369 tell that to my local toys r us that still has them
@@aplasticbag69420 Of course, Toys r us, which no longer exists, still has toys that were only in vending machines. Okay...
This reminds me of when I befriended the new girl and she invited me to her slumber party. She wasn’t in my class, but she invited her entire class and only a few kids showed up. Regardless, I felt like the odd one out, so, as they were playing The Voice, I went upstairs to explore her room. On her dresser, there was a gumball machine and a Chuck E Cheese token. I put the token in the machine, but it got stuck.
I went downstairs and told my friend to come with me and told the others to stay behind. They followed us anyways. When my friend tried to get the token unstuck, she accidentally shattered the glass of the gumball machine. Gumballs went all over her room and it was a free-for-all.
And, somehow, despite all that, we became BFFs, and we’re still best friends to this day. Next month will be the 10th anniversary of our friendship and, last July, I gave her a new gumball machine for her college dorm.
Edit: For those claiming I made this up, here’s video proof from July 2022:
th-cam.com/users/shortsPn_z4NHmIOg
Also, please stop assuming that I’m a guy in the friendzone. I’m not a guy and she’s been like a sister to me for many years now.
The last part was so wholesome omg.
@@jonnevitu4979 indeed
"he's cracked the code guys"
She wasn't alarmed you took it upon yourself to leave the group go into someone's room you barely know by yourself? I don't know... I certainly wouldn't appreciate that from someone new.
@@spider0804Nah, I'm actually happy it's one of the more realistic stories. Not the basic bs, "we became friends, now it's our 10th anniversary since marriage".
Back in the day we would cut quarters out of pizza boxes, super cheap and easy 😂
I remembered one time my daughter used plastic coins from a toy register she tried it with an m&m machine and it actually worked 😂😂
Lmao future mob boss
Question is... did she share the m&m's with you? 😁
@@dadonthetube she was in such a good mood she shared with everybody lol
@@adge4579 "I'm not even mad, that's amazing!"
@@Igh86 your daughter is a literal thief and everyone who she shared that stolen contraband with is complicit and need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
"Do not try at home" As if my 3D printer will self destruct if I make a quarter.
@Brandon Taylor Doubt it.
@Brandon Taylor hey, what do you think printed guns are for ? XD
this gonna save me laundry day
"I guess my 3d printer wasn't useless after all"
If Gen Z turns into criminals now I have a reason.
Whoah 1.1k likes and no comments
The comment doesn't really make much sense
mofo thinks he's a main character from anime or something 💀
@@JuzzyQ7 He's saying if this generation becomes criminals, he will have this video to blame the cause of this generation becoming criminals
counterfeiting is a felony, just saying...
Dude is teaching us how to counterfeit money. The real hero. I’m gonna have 7,000 gumballs and those sticky walk walker things but the end of this week.
Omg unlimited candy just rob the whole thing with 3d quarters
He says, "Do not try this at home."
Me: "So it's not okay to use it at home, but is it okay at Walmart?"
My Friends: "You got it dude 😎👍✨️"
Life hacks
Guy: spends money to 3d print
Teens: use duct tape quarter trick to get unlimited gumballs with 1 quarter
I’m gonna need some help understanding what this trick is
Put duct tape on a quarter, put it in the machine, you can rotate it infinitely
@@macewindu1 coin doesn't drop in so you keep spinning
shhhhhhh
honestly if I was a gumball machine designer the first thing I'd do would be making sure it can't complete a turn with the coin still in the slot. Can't expect gravity to do all the work
"And that's how I got into the courtroom today, your honor."
infinite money glitched unlocked
Gonna steal everything... One gumball at a time!
the soda machines, the snack machines. the possibilities are endless
Washing machines and that's pretty much gold
My brother 3D printed a keychain attachment that was coin-shaped for my mom, so she could use that instead of scrounging around the car every time we needed a coin for a shopping cart.
Like, you know those shopping carts that you need to insert a coin in order to unattach it from the one in front of it? Yeah, haven't had to stress about forgetting a coin for one of those in a long while.
That's so cool! Over here in the UK many retailers sold these, they were a simple piece of metal in the shape of a pound coin and different places would sell them with different engravings/designs. They were called trolley coins. I feel like a lot of them fell out of use when our pound coin changed shape, but you can probably still get updated ones from online.
Why do you guys have to insert money to use shopping carts- it should be free
LIKE THE REST OF THE WORLD
@@ItsPREPP98 Not that I disagree with you, the whole thing is really stupid, but it is technically free since you get your coin back when you put it back in the corral and "plug" the cart in front back in.
They say it's incentive for people to put away their carts but all it really does is make things harder for people with physical disabilities (nowhere to put them away near handicap parking spots since it's "prime parking") and prevent homeless people from stealing their carts.
@@0kittykruger0 OHH NOW I GET IT. I thought the coin was just gone. If you get it back after puting it back, it is actually good
@@ItsPREPP98 x2
In today's episode of "Matt learns how perimeter walls are printed", we will see you all next week!
Did I find a fellow scrap mechanic addict?
What?
@@scrap5407 yes, yes you did.
@@karatekid3889 excellent, 2500 hours here wbu lmao
@@scrap5407 damn, only about 780, Thats pretty impressive
Yes it will, a paper clip and tape also works
This kind of reminds me of the makeshift tokens used in the NYC subway before the metro card was introduced as a method for fare evasion. You can find the tokens on display at the NYC transit museum.
Similar situation with wooden nickels used in slot machines, displayed at the Las Vegas Mob Museum! :D...I imagine less grisly fates for those who simply evaded NYC fares tho...
I have one of those with a square punched through the center on my keychain, along with a penny with a heart punched through it. I'm old and can't remember where I got either of them.
Time to pull off a candy heist
I'm about to be sitting on a throne of gumballs.
about to sit in a cell
You sit on a throne of lies.
I'm about to sit
Good job👍you now have feds watching you.😂
Short answer: yes. When I was 12, my mom worked overnights in a flower distributing warehouse and I would go with her. We didn't have the money for the snack vending machines, so one night I found a thin, but very sturdy piece of cardboard, traced a quarter, and used some floral shears to cut out as many quarters as I use. They were somehow heavy enough to do the trick! I had free snacks for a week before my mom's boss made an announcement about the cardboard quarters and holding whomever is doing that "personally responsible". I was never so scared in my life - I fessed up to my mom that it was me and she said she would lose her job if I didn't stop. She never ratted me out, but I never did it again. 😂
Awww that's funny
"No problem first try"
*The Federal Government disliked that*
Edit: ayo 31k likes is crazy
Edit to the Edit: too bad i didnt do this on my TH-cam channel instead of my personal account T^T 30k for a throwaway comment that made me chuckle is insane thanks
*federal govt* we want to hire you
@@62tidus yeah. Once he gets out of his 300 year prison bid.
@@muhammadthefabulous that's the catch lol. Govt or prison, which one owns you lol. We joke but this happens more than one would know
Why would they? It's not counterfeiting
@@prussiaball1871 if you're talking to me the comment was a joke 🤷🏾♂️ if you're talking to the others then 🤷🏾♂️
About to go to the laundromat and use these 💀💀
Hope you get caught.
@@maddoxinc1642 💀 was a joke homje
@@HMPRODIGY Sure it was.
@MaddoxInc ok... 💀
Bro saaaame 😭💀💀
I did that with a piece of cardboard the same thickness as a coin and it worked when I was about 11 or 12. In my mid forties now but was Funny as hell at the time, as I never thought it would work, I did it just as an experiment. I was friends with the hamburger shop owner who owned the gum-ball dispenser, so I told him what I just did, he laughed at first as I handed him the gum ball, then like a true father figure clouted me around the head, then made me clean his grill. We were still good friends after that. He always threw me a gum ball as I walked past or came in to buy milk, as a personal joke but also as a reminder that he was watching me. Miss ya Spiro! You made the best Aussie burger ever, and were a great friend.
I'm actually surprised that it worked. Even the old machines had fail safes against slugs.
not gumball machines it only detects if it's about the size of a quarter
@@davidkinkade81 a lot of old ones actually check the ridges, back in the good ol' day of silver coins people would scrape off the ridges for some of the silver while keeping the coin mostly intact
@@hannahlistento100EAT The slug had the ridges of a quarter though.
@@hannahlistento100EAT
@@hannahlistento100EAT i
Fun fact: in Panama they use U.S. currency, but also have their own currency called balboas. A .25 cent piece Balboa is the exact same size and weight as an American quarter and will work in American vending machines.
Great tip, I'll be sure to use this in the future.
The thing about those vintage crank machines, is it's about the weight, not just the size. (Source: parents owned a small business with these when i was in school)
Glad to see someone here isn't clueless, so many people seem to think that just size alone is enough but weight has been a factor with many of these kinds of machines since the Victorian Era, and, became pretty common by around the 1980's in the West, not sure what things are like in the East as I have never left Western Europe.
Either weight or pressure pressure is a big factor main thing is has to apply pressure to the pin i recently bought a few machines myself and was seeing for my self what it would take since obviously I couldn’t break them without worrying and can access the coin mech
@@ProvenPyro lol, thinking weight plays a role in a coin operated mechanism. no cost effective.
Same thing with older vending machines and pay phones.
No the old ones had nothing to do with wait at all. You place a quarter sized item in there with the right thickness and then you turn it it doesn't go out the slot which would reject other coins, instead it goes past that and then pushes across the mechanism that would stop the dial just like a lock
i love old gumball machines. I used to really like going to the mall just to go see the store that sold gumball machines.
“Locked with no candy”
Gum balls inside:Im just a hallucination!
No no
He's got a point
No candy in the slot. He's trying to prove that he's not cheating.
@@andymerrett The whole experiment is ruined as long as he has hacked gumball machines in his house. He has to try a machine in the wild.
Oh finally a good use for 3D printing, THANKS MAN!
Idk I thought the 3D printed firearms were pretty neat
@@obsidianv3 I guess that ones good too