TITLE
The Redbox Removal Team
AUTHOR
Jason Koebler
PUBLICATION
404 Media
YEAR
2024
ARTICLE TYPE
Article
FROM THE ARTICLE
The Redbox machine was stuck to the concrete. More accurately, there was a single bolt holding the hulking Redbox to the concrete ground, and the team trying to haul it away couldn’t access it. So the Junkluggers trash removal team has been trying to break the front door open because the manager of the Dollar General store that has been the Redbox’s home doesn’t have the key. If the team can get the front door open, maybe they will be able to access the bolt.They tried bashing the lock with a crowbar, prying the door open from the top and the sides, and angle grinding the door off. Rory Agor, who managed the junk lugging team that day, at one point hopped on top of the machine to try to get more leverage. Still, the machine was stuck.
Then, a junk lugger named Ambrose shook the machine back and forth. It fell over. The bolt broke. The machine was freed. “The back end was loose, but we couldn’t get to the front end, so I just pushed it over,” Ambrose says.
Junk lugging requires creative thinking.
COMPANIES MENTIONED
Redbox
PEOPLE MENTIONED
Rory Agor
Nathan Proctor
Justin Waltz
TOPICS MENTIONED
Business