A CUP of vending machine coffee that he didn’t get proved expensive for a 26 year old man.

Blackburn magistrates heard Hayden Paul Carroll lost his cool when he put his money in and didn’t get his coffee. He punched the machine, damaging a panel and cutting himself in the process. And when he appeared in court for criminal damage it cost him nearly £500 in fines and costs.

Carroll, 26, of Oakenhurst Road, Blackburn, pleaded guilty to criminal damage to a Lavazza coffee machine belonging to Selecta. He was fined £276 with £85 costs, £30 victim surcharge and £100 compensation.

Catherine Allan, prosecuting, said Carroll told police he was on his way home from a rave in Blackpool and had damaged the machine, in the waiting room at Blackburn railway station out of frustration.

He told the court he was sorry for what he had done.

“I put my money in and it didn’t give me my coffee and I did a stupid thing,” he said.