Yes, that’s Kondomautomaten, as in “Bitte mein Herr, konnen sie mir sagen wo einer Kondomautomaten ist?” (Clip and save for your next trip to Germany!) Anyhoo, someone from Muenster (yes, that’s a place, not just a cheese) has managed to earn the Darwin Award by getting himself killed attempting to blow up a Kondomautomaten. According to the English report (linked) on this:
Along with two friends, aged 27 and 29, the man had attached a homemade explosive device to the machine in an apparent attempt to get at the goods and money inside.
But he was unable to make it to safety in time, with the door of his car still open as the device detonated. The shard of metal then struck him in the head, leaving him unconscious.
Of course, nothing can match the original German for this:
Am 25.12.2015 hörte ein Anwohner der Münsterstraße gegen 07.40 Uhr einen lauten Knall und sah daraufhin durch das Fenster starke Rauchentwicklung aus dem Bereich des auf der Straße aufgestellten Kondomautomaten.
I think this says:
On Christmas Day, the Inhabitants of a Muenster street about 7:40 a.m. a loud Bang sah right out through the Window right there a Smoking Torch on the Side of the Street where a Condom Vending Machine had installed been.
If that’s not German, it ought to be.
Well, I’m sorry that somebody had to give their life for ein Kondom. But also note that they endangered everyone else in the vicinity, not that getting killed is a reasonable sanction, but come on, a bomb?
Wouldn’t it have been easier to just put the money in the machine? I’m not sure what these machines look like but I would think a good pipe cutter, or a large wrecking bar would do the trick. A trip to the hardware store could have saved a life.