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A student dies for a pop:



http://www.montrealgazette.com/PAGES/981214/2101672.html

Student dies under soft-drink machine

RENE BRUEMMER
Freelance

A 19-year-old student was found dead under an overturned soft-drink
vending machine yesterday in his residence at Bishop's University. 

Kevin Mackle, a first-year business student from Etobicoke, Ont., was
found by another student around 9:45 a.m. in the ground-floor lobby of
the Kuehner Hall residence. 

Students reported Mackle left a friend's room around 4 a.m. and
speculated he was trying to shake a drink from the machine when it
toppled. 

Residence assistants - under the guidance of the university's
counselor, chaplain and nurses - were contacting students remaining in
residence and offering counseling. 

Bishop's has about 530 residence beds. Several students have already
left for the holiday break and some said Mackle had been planning to
leave yesterday morning. 

Bruce Stevenson, public-relations director for the university, said
most soft-drink machines at the university are bolted to the wall, but
the one in Mackle's residence was not because it was in a tight alcove
and considered too difficult to move. 

Stevenson said he has read about at least three other 

people who have been killed in a similar manner. The machines weigh
several hundred pounds and are top heavy. 

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission found that
between 1978 and 1995, at least 37 deaths and 113 injuries resulted
from falling vending machines in the U.S., according to an Associated
Press report. 

Three years ago, seven American manufacturers of soda machines mounted
a warning-label campaign to alert customers to the dangers. One says:
"Warning! Never rock or tilt. Machine can fall over and cause serious
injury or death." 


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