Man attacked vending machine with hatchet to free person trapped inside

A 47-year-old Idaho man proved that no good deed goes unpunished when he was arrested for using a hatchet to break into a vending machine to free a person that had apparently been trapped inside.

The problem for Chris P. Collins was that person inside the vending machine was seemingly a figment of his methamphetamine-addled imagination. Collins handed the hatchet over to officers without incident and is reported to have given them the key to his motel room – the subsequent search turned up two syringes and a spoon containing a white residue that tested positive for methamphetamine.

He was taken to Ada County Jail on a felony charge of possession of methamphetamine and misdemeanor malicious injury to property. [Idaho Statesman]