The Pepsi Contest That Killed 5 People
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- DISCLAIMER: Some of the footage of the riots is dramatized and/or NOT from the actual events talked about in this video.
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In 1992 Pepsi ran a contest in the Philippines that ended up killing 5 people.
The contest was called Number Fever, and the idea was simple:
Every evening the news would reveal a winning number, and if you had a Pepsi bottle cap with that number, you won a million pesos.
Pepsi had a system in place to ensure that there were only TWO winners each evening. But May 25th 1992, something went wrong...
Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos "won" that evening.
Pepsi was now expected to pay ten of BILLIONS of dollars in prize money - a debt they claim was impossible to pay.
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Now that's how you do a video. No robot voice. No annoying extraneous crap. Just right to the meat of the story. Thank you.
Fr! That’s some true facts.
@@afafila wdym? We talking abt robotic voices and stuff-
@@afafila but if ur saying my vids are dumb stupid and cringe then ur the one to speak for u have no subs and no vids posted
@@ItzMelody_123 very low comeback, and yes when I say they're shit I mean it
All I said was “fr that’s some true facts” but u over here wanna start some drama and a fight for no dam reason
You know the part of this that probably isn't considered much? Two people who did have the rare "winning" caps never got their money since the 349 was drawn instead of the indented winning number. What an odd twist of fate.
Is that true?; Did anyone get money from this, starting from the beginning?
@@davidshatusky8755 I think what he meant was that on the night 349 was drawn the two caps that were produced for that night weren't called, but I'm not sure there was even 2 caps produced for that night from the sound of it as the system said ot was 349 so it probably just produced two 349 for that day rather than a new number that hadn't been produced yet.
Omg I didn't even think of that. They probably never even knew they actually won lol just threw it away afterwards shaking their head lol
thought the same thing!
When you have specific low volume winners like this or like the Monopoly pieces on drink cups, I've wondered how you make sure the winners actually pay attention & don't toss their Boardwalk piece. One theory I have is they send out the winning pieces to the people that send in for the free play option. Then they know that player is paying attention & knows which pieces to watch for. I remember when I was a kid picking up and looking inside every discarded mountain dew can that I found when they had the game where you added up the numbers and I believe you had it to hit 21. The numbers were printed inside on the bottom of the can. All the numbers were even so the only way to win was to find an odd number like three.
Great storytelling... real voice and telling it concisely without a bunch of rambling.
And no "one hundred and"
I have friends from there. Hundreds committed suicide over it. They were at the end with nothing left, then this amazing event only for it to be taken away & they just.... ended everything for themselves. Very sad
That’s terrible. I’m so sorry.
@FoucaultEffect - it is also sad that 5 people were murdered!
I was still 7 when this happened. Me and my friends would scavenge the trash pile just to look for pepsi caps even after the raffle ended. And I also wondered why in my childhood Pepsi was more popular than coke before. Now I know.
How old are you now
@@thatgirlthatlikesninjago9063 they are 37
@@xty124 ewwwww
@@liaxox_ they are not that old
@@liaxox_ why eww?
Are people above 30 not allowed to use youtube?
Im a filipino and my dad was around during that time, one time during dinner i asked him why isnt pepsi isnt as popular as coke so he explained to me that pepsi used to be very popular in the 90s and something happened, but never told me about the deaths and injury.
Damn dude. That has to hit different finally knowing that
@@pvzfryhard4399 Yeah, little Bradly's life was never the same after that.
@@Nischal_Kandel ok 😑😑
@@pvzfryhard4399 ikr
I liked your comment to change the number to 667.....
Nice mini documentary mr. Zack..please create another 5-minutes mini documentary next time. Thanks
Beautifully done. Thank you.
That's completely insane, one little mistake caused so much chaos
Kind of you
Seriously
That what you call "the butterfly effect"
Just like my family when my baby cousin starts crying
@@squidinkcookieworksatmcdon5850 SQUID INK COOKIE
Imagine being in the bathroom as a pepsi employee and a molotov cocktail just bursted outside your stall.
Well… at least you won’t be constipated anymore 🤷♂️
aw yeah the flamin' fard is real.
Imagine trying to make a molotov with Pepsi bottles.
Fucking bust the toilet and let water spray
@@dickJohnsonpeter ???.???????????
I came from shorts
Me too!
Same
Same
I prefer pornhub.
Same
Bro! So many Filipinos are shocked after this!
Thank you po para sa infomation..
My mom was around that event during that time,
And she told me back in the day she didn't buy it, and expected the event to be a scam and false hope, when I asked her about this event, she just laughed it off saying "I knew it was a scam the whole time, that's why I didn't participate in it that time"
Edit: Ok now there's"Who asked?" comments
wow
@@soyamusic819 Bro that's seems sarcastic as hell
Your mum is wise👍
@@bootybreakeronlyformen hello
@@immersiveedits
K
I guess they all switched to Coca Cola after that.
Haha 😂
😅
😂@@mintallyn7291
Consider coca cola right now has a winning bucket hat by collecting 24 caps for 3 bucket hate depends what you cap was my dad buys the plastic then the one with the glass one. Got one aka the sprite bucket hat. Each week for getting one till may 11. I expect to get all 3 I never like bucket hate but the design was cool as hell
Pepsi sucks anyway!
I had no idea this happened, great video about it, informative and to the point. Thanks.
Never heard issue before… maybe I was too young that time, good video!
My grandfather worked for Pepsi around this time. Apparently my mother’s family was receiving death threats because of what had happened. Luckily, my grandfather quit his job so the situation wouldn’t escalate. I just wanted to put that out.
hope y’all okay!
Yes, you’re okay!
@@gypsymendoza8352yeah everybody is okay
@@ovidiuio409universe is okay!
@@nept2nedthe aliens are ok
The worst thing about this event is that "sure, there will be winners, in fact 2". But who says it was sold or even left their own warehouse?
How many times you heard of a contest but see no winners even today?
Like the million dollar Monopoly crap at McDonald's?
@@desertweasel6965 Saw an interesting video saying that was all insider winners with family of McDonald people
shhhh noone wants to understand how evil capitalism is
@@johnmccatherin5892yup and it didnt happened just once but several times.
Thats I dont even bother with that game anymore I just throw away the tickets.
Welcome to reality. Where literally everything is controlled and monopolized. Including the government and media.
Hey Zack! I really love your youtube shorts, Ive become x10 more knowledageble in radon facts, BUT i feel like we all neeed more of these videos. Findind cases/ history and making it into a story is far more (chilling) and fun! Either way keep it up!
First time watching this CZcamsr content
Surprisingly good and interesting
This is probably one of the most darkest videos I've watched from your channel. Rest in peace to anyone out there in the Philippines that had to suffer with this.
If you think this video is bad you should see the one where he talks about how the accelerators in tesla cars were getting stuck down 💀💀
I'm a filipino😭
@@Little_.Raizenmyenpawzyhave you heard of this event before this video?
@@rubberducky7211 bruh I was born on 2014
@@Little_.Raizenmyenpawzy i mean, did you know this event existed?
As a Filipino myself, this was something I never expected to learn about my country.
my grandfather is malaysian-filipino and im indian and i was shocked about this incident after my grandfather told me about this story
same
Wasn't born during this time, but my dad worked in Pepsi and told me this story in around the mid-2000s when he was already working for Coke.
I'm Korean and my country has always been equally f*cked up😢
I don't know how old are you but this rocked the country when I was 1st year high school.
Wow I love learning new stuff thanks for making such interesting content for us :3
As a filipino thank you for showing us this❤
I’m a Filipino and I showed this to my grandma and she got the chills of this event..
And why are you dumb enough to show. This to her
Janahahahau
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@Marsh Jajjajajajjajaja
@Marsh jjjajaajajajajajajajajajaa
Damn five people died, doesn't sound like alot comparing it to other events but dang. That's still a lot of emotional baggage for their families. Over an error.
Five people is a lot, especially at the hands of a capitalist company.
Holy crap a Weezer fan, what's good brother
But he didn't said what caused their death, it was their own fault for creating such chaos I believe
@@luigi.carbone the same stuff getting no bitches the usual
You know how they say, one death is a tragedy, a hundred deaths are a statistic
"So.. how did you die?"
"..I don't wanna talk about it."
Thanks for covering! Never heard of this story until now. Granted I was about 3 years old when the actual incident happened... But given the fact that I'm about to be 35 on Friday... You would think somewhere through those years I would have heard whispers. Everyone seems to only ever focus on the Pepsi jet situation. Netflix even jumped on the bandwagon and that is when the documentary titled Pepsi. Where's my jet?. Was born.
Well I'm 55 and I've never heard this story
My mom was born in 1979,every time she hears the number 349 she is always reminded of the chaos. Rest in peace to the ppl who died just to get some money
Fr and my family Work extremely hard on their work and tried to get money and I love them so much. And they get new job 2 3 and they have to work hard again.
3* and also I born in Manila Filipino March 12 2016
Mk I started war 😃-
@@CatKittyL0V3r your 7 lol
@@CatKittyL0V3roh no god, nowadays 7 yos comments?
@@slauocrosmro_Oh God something years olds can’t spell better then 7 year olds
i was in grade four when this happened and im proud to say i was one of those who managed to find the "winning cap". My aunt used to own a convenience store and i remember i got the "winning cap" through flashing lights on the bottle's neck in order to have a glimpse of those numbers... eventually my mom didn't think it was reasonable enough to fight for it so she decided to exchanged it for 500... and if i remember correctly, those who fought for it got 10k each...
@@raymond19001 damn this man just capped so hard I guess
@@Red-jl1qr i was about to reply to the guy but i guess he realized he was wrong because it really is possible... i did it with coca cola as well... exchanging the bottle caps for POGS and those miniature Coke Bottles...
Damn
Damn your mother really snatched your “fortune”
I researched a bit, and only a handful got over 10k, because they went through lawsuits or something.
Never heard about this until now sickening how corporations rip people off and get away with it nice video though worthy of a Netflix documentary im surprised anyone would buy a pepsi in Philippines
0:26 correct. Now, 1 pesos could barely buy you a few candies
I was only in fifth grade when this happened. However, I was already smart enough to know that Pepsi merely made an error in announcing the winning number. Sadly, a lot of Filipinos mistakenly thought that it was a lottery and numbers are drawn.
I wasn’t even born. My heart goes out to those people I guess.
@Takeshi Matimoto didn't you watch the video? It said the prize was life changing for the average filipino back then. It caused a violent riot that unfortunatelly led to deaths. Watch the whole thing lol.
@@gamblerfls they probably watched the video, but can’t exactly understand why they resorted to violence
Uhhhh…
Money made people crazy. I understand poverty but this is greed now.
I’m a Filipino I did not know this happened. I feel very bad for anyone who went through that trama. 🇵🇭
Garti garti
Same!
*Trauma, just trying to correct that miss spelling.
Same
@@Hussarz 🤓
Bro when i saw the thumbnail and the second you said Philippines (cuz im a Filipino) i was shook to the coreeeeeee
New title : how Pepsi started a war
Though I'm not a Filipino I've heard this story from my uncle and its one the tragic competing that has ever happened.
Iam a Filipino
@@maryjaneflores637 same
@@maryjaneflores637 me too
Sadly I'm not. I'm a korean chinese.
@@pony7284 nahh be happy im a filipino and i dont really like it lol. ( citizens to be exact )
My dad confirmed this, he said it was true, he was there around at his young age, he even said he had one, and didn't even bother claiming it.
Same here my dude, good thing he didn't participate.
Man just wanted to drink Pepsi
@@tabssy definetly said:
Nah, just liked the drink
Why bother if ur not gonna win anyway
@@unknown-ft9ik you're
I'm from the philippines and i have no idea this happened! Crazy that this happened!! 😮
"Who else came from shorts" yeah who else went from youtube to youtube?? 💀
Two of my neighbours then, got those 349 bottle caps as well. They informed us that was a mistake after they saw the news about other thousands of people owning that 349 number. "No company would ever allow thousands of people win PHP1,000,000 in a single draw", they asserted.They were small business owners by the way.
Imagine the 2 people who got the actual winning number💀💀💀
I watched the whole thing without clicking on the video
Sounds like the government.
Its always the government.
Crazy how one mistake can even lead into a massive chaos
U literally copied and pasted some ones comment 💀
@@marcelvincent4215 ?
@@marcelvincent4215 and? are you gonna tell someone who said "1 + 1 is 2" that they copied someone else?
@@sle3povers math is different then a comment
@@marcelvincent4215 sheeeeeeeeeeesh
He Deserves an award🏆 for his voice and his interesting storytelling!
W
Daddy
@@Fasteagle_92 Uhm? 💀
@@0NLYM00NN 19 seconds ago, what.
@@Fasteagle_92 hes our daddy
This is how to make short documentaries! Very clear and precise
The fact that so many people won wasn't a clue.
I know there is desperation, but I think that's crazy disgusting behaviour. Mad world sometimes
Yeah, like, did they honestly think everyone could have won?
As a Filipino this truly scared me and realized my parents could've died is horrifying, good thing my father brought my mother to America before the incident. God bless the injuries and deaths. (my father's american)
Say thanks god for make your parents save your parents :)
Oh o
That’s good for you parents 😮💨
Unlikely she could have died unless she worked for Pepsi or liked to riot.
North Carolina company causes trouble in Philippines. Good thing I was born in Virginia
This happened during the early 90's with the cola wars between Pepsi Co. and Coca Cola Co. Prior to this, they were doing the taste test and Coca Cola would wind up to be the supreme brand. Pepsi came up with this ingenious idea and literally pushed them to the top. I was an avid Coke drinker and switched to Pepsi because of this promotion. I also had one of the winning 349 bottle caps.
You won?
@@taz7914 the 349 ones where the ones that glitched, so no wonder he won.
Wow
Amazing, you still kept the 'winning' bottle caps. It's a slice of history in that era and who knows, they have values in years to come. Historical value.
349 is deadly.
Computer error really said
Ima end this man's whole career!
I don’t need a Pepsi contest to kill 5 people
Take your meds edgelord
we’ll know this is how you explain a story. Thank you man
well*
now*
What
I asked my grandmother about this(since she was born in 1960), she remembered some of it, but she only said this as I explained it to her "it's a good thing I threw it away" or when I mention she was collecting some bottle caps "I was just collecting those for your father and uncle's school projects" and finally "It's a good thing me, my siblings or your grandfather and his siblings din't join".
But for me it kinda disturbs me, I never heard this anything in my life, even though I was born in the year 2000's, and I think I should not know about this, especially since my family does not usually buy Pepsi, now I know why.
Rest in peace for those 5 people
Prob the reason my parents only let me Buy Royal, Sprite and CocaCola
@@redrrrrrrrrre My family just let me buy Mountain Dew and Royal only if im going out to drink, so I feel ya
that's my dad's age! he remembers in the newspapers
@@redrrrrrrrrre ok
pepsi is better than coke though
This shocked me that it happened in the Philippines. I wonder how many people in my family participated or if my dad knew about it.
and from then on no company dare make it possible to win, not even once, they put a * next to the promise of prizesz then in fine print it says some complex rules about claiming the prize that makes it virtually impossible.
In America, there is also the Harrier jet that Pepsi promised for 7 million Pepsi points and when someone did manage to get that amount of points, they refused to keep their promise.
remember that one, they though for sure none would get tht many points.
The problem was you were able to BUY points. Also Pepsi easily won that Court case, returning the check the person tried to send for the points.
BUT you forgot to mention that they at least offered the guy 1 MILLION DOLLARS...NOT $18
but that was negligence this was a minor coding error
@@sandcastle1417 but he thig was like 30m so not as impressive
Here is the explaining: ( if you don’t wanna read this whole thing then the reason behind the 5 deaths is because of riots.)so basically many people over the country were participating in this. So people all around the country were waiting for the winning number to be called. Since 349 is not a winning number the company we’re able to print that same number as many times as they want leading to many people having 1 or more of that number. Pepsi then had a meeting the same night to discuss how to solve this issue. They then decided to blame it on the technology and then just came to a conclusion that they would give everyone that won 500 pesos (18 American dollars) which was not even close to 1 million pesos. Many people were okay with this but many people were even more angry then before. After that riots broke loose which lead to 5 deaths. To sum it all up, the reason 5 people died is because of the riots.
I understand the video better now thank you
so people are angry because they got 500 pesos for using forged numbers? man i’m a bit disappointed at my country
thanks
@@NSUS1 yes I did lol
Ya and u saw the whole short of the video created by this youtuber and copy pasted all the lines here
Well, I anticipated from the title that the contest involved drinking as many Pepsi bottles as possible, which ended up killing 5 people because of sugar poisoning or so.
If they were smarter, they would have covered their behind with small print like "total payout is $X and will be equally divided between all winners."
Up to this date I still have my 7 pieces Pepsi 349 caps. But I never participated in any rallies or whatsoever. Memoirs of the 90's.
you can sell it to collectors, I've heard people are buying those
@@IDontLikeHandIes nah just wait slight 20-30 years trust me how much value it'll be
ah yes the memoirs
Zack! I think you need to make more longer form videos like these. The shorts are good too but more of these would be great
Atleast 10mint video and above
I agree.
@@fullthrottlereviews656 i dont agree it waste time and make everyone bored thats a company technic they make short cuts on everything even saying a speach
I’ve learned more history stuff from random videos I find like this rather than my history class.
Lol yea 😅
I wouldn't be surprised if any subsequent raffles by Pepsico and many other companies have a clause protecting them from such errors (and/or the raffle is worded so that even if such an error were to happen, they wouldn't need to pay more than they intended to. In other words, using a wording like "2 million bucks will be divided among the winners" or the like.)
I’m a FILIPINO and I’m shocked with this revelation.
"The moment of Revelation is a Shock"
Shadout Mapes, Dune
@@dLw920 HOW DARE YOU-
@@dLw920 Your lame
@Light Wolf🎆 2v1 me and light wolf vs detter wallas
Naka-CAPS pa talaga ang Filipino amp. Walang espesyal kung Pilipino tayo. Like OK, gulat tayo. Hindi naman sila mapapa-“Wow, Pilipino ka.”
Hey, im from the Philippines and i really feel bad for the people that had to go through this,i wasn’t born yet but i hope those people are doing alright now.
Same😢
Same 😢😢...
Definitely, rhose people are desperate right now in a slum area with their families or they might long dead.
Same😢
Honestly bro Pepsi was helping out and when a simple mistake happened people decided to start a fight?? It's not like it was a competition now was it
I was just watching this on the short that you posted a while back and now this video showed up in my recommendations after I just watched the short of the Pepsi killer just today LMAO 😅
he needs to post more longer videos 💔💔
I'm surprised such an amazing video was able to fit in just 5 minutes, great work
According to my parents, the “glitch” was actually caused by a rogue worker who got fired.
Also. 349!!! (Pepsi paid 25 centavos to all the winners)
thats actually how ed-209 glitched as well
if that's true, what's the motive? why would someone do something like that? sabotage/revenge i guess makes sense, but ultimately he'd be screwing the people more than the company, which is exactly what happened.
we never protest to claim that "prize" 🤮 SERIOUSLY, Php.25?!? 🤮
@@KaleidoSTARPH ?
@@flannelpillowcase6475 well maybe he thought the company would've actually paid the prize
Avenge contest in the Philippines:
I came from this short. And now I'm watching the full video
Amazing story. You have the most interesting stuff. I’m amazed that this story isn’t more well remembered.
Yeah
As a filipino i never get to heard of this story untill now thank you so much! For not ignoring the Philippines
Damn. I did not know about this. Nobody buys Pepsi anymore from where I live (at least in Manila and Batangas). I hope it stays that way.
When i heard of this story i thought that there was only like 10 winning capsule, and i thought that pepsi should have just rolled with it but 600k capsule is wild...
After seeing title I thought this was going to be a phosphorus incident like something from the earlier 1900's when people drank til their jaw rotted. This turned out to be far more insane. Excellent video.
Yo, could you please start making more full videos like these? I mean CZcams shorts/ reels are cool and all, but I will always appreciate full videos with more details like these.
You're so cool for sharing stuff like this man, better than 90% of the cringe most people post.
CZcams reels wtf
@@Spheraz probably mixed up with insta ot something
@@m4riams but why
@@Spheraz mistakes don't have reason, there IS NO WHY.
@@HammMann bbut why??
I remember seeing this on our Yugoslavian news station. I could never look at a Pepsi product again after I followed up on this. Bonga!
1:28 losing number
As a Filipina, I feel bad for Pepsi because they accidentally killed 5 people just because of an error.
Pepsi didn’t kill anyone, the rioters did
@@HAZ3official oh😔
to be called Filipina, does that mean woman filipinan or sum?
@@trisk902 does not matter.
@@trisk902 idk it's just another way to say ur from the philippines
This story is so underrated almost every Filipino forgot about this, tho I knew about this from my grandma but she didn't give an f about the price even tho she won
i didn't give an fuck either
I would trade my 500 bucks for ur Winning cap
@@Onionhatespowerleague1 well. It would be a rare collectable now since it was one of the biggest event but in the same time i doubt a cap still exist.
@@Onionhatespowerleague1 imagine
@@Spheraz I need it it goes for 10K$
It reminds me of Pepsi's Seven Dwarfs promo....only six dwarfs can be found...the most elusive crown was Sneezy!
Nice video! It's very entertaining!
As a young half american and half filipino, I definitely feel very upset for number fever because this history of pepsi in the philippines is very sad 😢
Kakaiao
Don't riot for free money lol
I live in the Philippines and this is the first I've heard of this. I think it's tragic that it all happened over an error although I feel bad for everyone (I know what a big deal that money is and while not as life changing as before, it's still a big amount today), I can't help but think it's dumb. It was an error and the company would still give them everyone some money even though it wasn't as big as before but people still had to start riots over it. It's sad people had to die for it.
imagine getting killed because you got a pepsi bottle cap
imagine being those 2 people who lost seeing the riot.
More videos! Love the longer content
My godmother is an eyewitness from the Philippines during this event and she is still traumatized to this day
Damn, and I was thinking people cut their fingers trying to pull the plastic liners out of bottle caps for various contests soda companies would run. And then infection sets in.
According to Wikipedia, the 5 killed were :
A schoolteacher and 5 year old child in Manila by a homemade bomb (Feb 1993) and
3 Pepsi employees in Davao City in May 1993
May they all RIP
As a Filipino
I’m never going to see Pepsi the same way again
I, myself as a Filipino, I can tell that story was terrifying. I hope this will never happen again.
Boooring. I hope this happens where I live. I Love excitement
Grow some balls if this is something that terrifying to you. Otherwise you will freeze up and die from fear at the gas station because the line is too long or something like that.
So what if you're from pagpagland, you want trophy?
Im Filipino and one of my family members told me about this, may those 5 rest in peace🕊️
Imagine the sheer desperation of pinning your hopes and dreams to a number printed in a bottle cap.
Love from Philippines ! Epic video Zack! Keep it up
I love the way you explain it it’s so intense and it makes me wanna watch it more
If a company makes a contest and theres computer errors they should still be forced to honour the contest. Otherwise whats to stop them from saying oh its a computer error and screwing anyone over?
I wasn’t basically born yet when this happend but my mom was. My mother has a photo of her back from the 90s holding pepsi while her tv was on in the background seeing that she got 349.