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

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

Back then things were built to last

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

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

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

Talk about fast food!

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

Baby ninja assassins fail to kill street sweeper… twice!

Maybe they were aiming for the garbage can.

No surprises here. They didn’t have planned obsolescence back then, things were built to last, not to break down to sell more each year.

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.

The waiters really have their ups and downs!

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Wow, a lot of boughs breaking in Detroit!

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

All three of these stories sound like jokes to me.

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?!?!?

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

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.