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Man Keeps Asking ATM For More Money, It Obliges With $37K His Account Didn’t Have
Consumerist ^ | April 4 , 2014

Posted on 04/04/2014 4:19:43 PM PDT by SMGFan

In what I can only imagine is the most exciting thing to happen since the game room vending machine at the lodge where we held family reunions started spewing free candy, a man with only a few hundred bucks in his bank account was able to withdraw $37,000 from a very obliging ATM.

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Kind of like Congress relation with tax payers.
1 posted on 04/04/2014 4:19:43 PM PDT by SMGFan
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To: SMGFan

Except no police officers show up. More politicians just keep showing up to drain the ATM dry.


2 posted on 04/04/2014 4:25:57 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: SMGFan
That sort of happened to me once....the bank ATM was loaded wrong...

$5 in the $20 and visa versa

Ask for $10 (2/ $5.00) and you got 2 - $20

Bank called me the next day to tell me my account had been adjusted...

I wasn't surprised...

3 posted on 04/04/2014 4:26:22 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: SMGFan

Ask and ye shall receive..


4 posted on 04/04/2014 4:30:19 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Popman

Funny how it usually seems if there’s an error that works in THEIR favor, you’re faced with a huge burden of proof, and even then it can still not be enough to get them to make things right.


5 posted on 04/04/2014 4:30:55 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: smokingfrog
...then it's just like

only different.

6 posted on 04/04/2014 4:33:18 PM PDT by BlueDragon (You can observe a lot just by watching. Yogi Berra)
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To: jsanders2001

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_banking_scandal


7 posted on 04/04/2014 4:33:37 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BlueDragon

good one


8 posted on 04/04/2014 4:53:15 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC SPR 223)
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To: SMGFan

A guy I know once used an ATM machine, typed in a number and got less than he had asked for (but the receipt said he got what he asked for). Now I would have left right there but I guess he needed the money so he tried again with a different amount and got more than he asked for. Being an analytical type of guy he kept trying different combinations until he figured it out.

They had put 5s in the $20 slot and 20s in the $5 slot.


9 posted on 04/04/2014 5:03:06 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

I think he may have posted in #3 above.


10 posted on 04/04/2014 5:10:33 PM PDT by deport
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To: deport; SMGFan
I think he may have posted in #3 above.

Unless he was at BOA hiding in the bushes in Ft. Lauderdale on Powerline road...

It wasn't me!!!

11 posted on 04/04/2014 5:18:21 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Popman; deport

Ha, happened more than once. See #9. (Last I heard the guy in my story didn’t live in Florida).


12 posted on 04/04/2014 5:21:33 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Popman

Actually I don’t think they even put 5s into ATMs anymore.


13 posted on 04/04/2014 5:23:35 PM PDT by DManA
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To: Popman

Was that at the Riggs Bank @ Wisconsin/M St in DC? They had that happen once.


14 posted on 04/04/2014 5:25:32 PM PDT by EDINVA
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To: DManA
Actually I don’t think they even put 5s into ATMs anymore.

They don't...this happened to me at least 15 years ago...

When $5.00 bucks was actually pocket change !!!

15 posted on 04/04/2014 5:25:48 PM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: DManA

Actually, mine is stocked with $5-ers in a laundromat, so people don’t walkout with all my quarters.


16 posted on 04/04/2014 6:23:49 PM PDT by pingman (In the Land of the Perpetually Outraged, truth is the enemy.)
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To: pingman

I love to listen to the challenges business folks face.

I don’t quit understand the problem you are describing. People walk off with your quarters?


17 posted on 04/04/2014 6:26:37 PM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA

If all the ATM dispenses is $20s, they change them into more quarters than needed for laundry, so they take the excess with them. That requires me to order sacks of quarters from Brinks, or clean out my local bank’s rolled inventory from time to time. Vending $5s solved that proplem.


18 posted on 04/04/2014 7:24:31 PM PDT by pingman (In the Land of the Perpetually Outraged, truth is the enemy.)
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