"Authorities in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol are investigating how a vodka vending machine was installed in the middle of the town centre."

"Authorities in the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol are investigating how a vodka vending machine was installed in the middle of the town centre."

Yeah, that's a real puzzler. Oh, I guess they could ask the guy who takes the money out at night and refills the machine, but that method just seems to lack subtlety.

The Ukrainian geniuses also offered this:

Experts quoted by the Interfax-Ukraine news agency estimate that 35% of all vodka sold in Ukraine in 2012 was unlawfully produced. This means "every second glass and every second bottle" according to Anatoliy Viyevsky, Director of the Ukrainian National Alcohol and Drug Observatory.

It seems that Anatoliy may have been sipping a bit of vodka when he made that calculation.