It has happened to all of us; you look for the most perfect dollar bill that you have, putting it ever so carefully in the slot 972 times until the machine finally takes it. At this point you make a selection and undoubtedly the snack gets stuck on the corkscrew, mocking you......Frustration for sure.

Most people would be content shaking the machine a bit, perhaps trying to slip a hand up under the Chinese torture device that is more commonly known as the vending flap - to no avail. Then there is the type of person that thinks outside the box - like Robert McKevitt of Spirit Lake, IA.

McKevitt was not to be outdone by the machine and reached way, way, way outside the box. According to the Des Moines Register, McKevitt was working the second shift at Polaris Industries’ warehouse in Milford when he decided to break for a snack last fall. The scenario above played out, leaving him frustrated and hungry. At this point McKevitt walked away and commandeered an 8,000-pound forklift, according to state unemployment compensation records.

He reportedly drove up to the vending machine, lifted it 2 feet off the concrete warehouse floor — then let it drop. He allegedly repeated the maneuver at least six times, by which time three candy bars had fallen into the chute for his retrieval.

When a supervisor confronted him, McKevitt allegedly explained he was simply trying to get the snack he had paid for.

He was fired five days later. When he applied for unemployment benefits a short time after that, he was denied - the arbitration judge cited the reason as a "willful disregard for his employer’s interests."

McKevitt says that the "machine was trouble."