Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for October 01, 2016

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    Templo S.U.D.  over 7 years ago

    A 91-year-old vacuum. Wow. What is its warrantee?

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    cripplious  over 7 years ago

    Back then things were built to last

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    Dean  over 7 years ago

    If you don’t mind mixing your food and coffee with all the dust you just vacuumed up.

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    tom_wright  over 7 years ago

    Wouldn’t want to grind my coffee or mince some meat after doing some painting.

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    KatD Premium Member over 7 years ago

    It probably has a separate compartments for the dirt, paint and food with different containers & blades of some kind for the coffee and meat.

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    Chad Cheetah  over 7 years ago

    Talk about fast food!

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    dwdl21  over 7 years ago

    Still have an old 60’s Kirby, It’ll probably out live me….lol

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    news  over 7 years ago

    Baby ninja assassins fail to kill street sweeper… twice!

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 7 years ago

    Maybe they were aiming for the garbage can.

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    drycurt  over 7 years ago

    I’m assuming that the vacuum cleaner motor still turns and moves some air, but the seals between suction and discharge are quite worn after all that time. Might make noise and move a bit of air, but probably doesn’t have enough ooomph to run the paint sprayer anymore. Parents insist on using their 65 year old Electrolux. I took my new vacuum to their house and it pulled almost a gallon of fine sand/dirt out of their carpet. I tried to show them that although, when I was a child, that old thing could lift a up sofa cushion, now it can’t lift a side pillow.

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    Great Wizard Nala  over 7 years ago

    The waiters really have their ups and downs!

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    1soni  over 7 years ago

    @rideleader – I hope they don’t serve soup.

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    wjones  over 7 years ago

    Something wrong here, baby’s don’t just fall out of windows.

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    Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo]  over 7 years ago

    German made 1925-vintage Piccolo vacuum cleaner that also paints, grinds coffee, minces meat and has never broken down. (1925 – 2016)-That was a common service with those machines; multipurpose. Kirby vacuum cleaners had that same capacity for decades. Called attachments to connect to the motor.

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    IQTech61  over 7 years ago

    Those babies didn’t fall – they were ninjas in training!

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    Angry Indeed  over 7 years ago

    That’s the problem with today’s appliances – not built to last!

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    Angry Indeed  over 7 years ago

    I wonder if Figlock cried: “It’s raining babies!”

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    ChessPirate  over 7 years ago

    Wow, a lot of boughs breaking in Detroit!

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    Rhonda Premium Member over 7 years ago

    That vacuum is amazing but I would be afraid to eat meat ground by my vacuum cleaner!

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    Stephen Gilberg  over 7 years ago

    All three of these stories sound like jokes to me.

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    bookworm0812  over 7 years ago

    Just what kind of parents did those babies have?!?!?! What kind of parent takes their eyes off their baby when they could fall out of an open window?!?!?

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 7 years ago

    I bought my German coffee grinder in the 1980’sstill use it everyday.

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    purpleriver  over 7 years ago

    Hmmm, my vacuum cleaner just sucked up some coffee beans. Wow, ground coffee. Let me get this steak I dropped…. And I spilled paint. Hey it’s spraying out the back.

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