[perfect stranger]

At 5:30 in the morning, a woman waiting to use the ATM in this bank called police to report a man spending an unusual amount of time at the ATM. When South Portland police officers drove up, they saw this same homeless man inside filling a shopping bag with cash from the ATM. How much? It turns out it's more than $37,000 in cash.

[nickcarraway]

Whenever banks make a mistake in their favor, they say, “computers don’t make a mistake.”

[Theo]

From the article:

And Marcia Giancola, from Brunswick, says “If the bank was giving it, he wasn’t stealing it. He was just playing the slot machine, so to speak.”

Um. Right.

[Focault's Pendulum]

Obviously he was kind of tricking the system a little bit.

Exactly how was he doing that?

[M Kehoe]

I was at a Racetrack getting gas. Went in and paid $20. As I was pumping the gas, I was people watching. Then it dawned on me that the time had transpired for $20 in the tank, and looked up to see I had put $30 in the tank. Oops, how could that happen? I stopped, and went back in to pay the difference. Clerk said that she had put another customers money into my pump. So I asked which one, and she pointed to an Asian women. So I walked over to her and said that I owed her $10. She said, "never mind, it's ok," and drove off.

I should have played the lottery that day.

5.56mm

[iowamark]

At 5:30 in the morning, a woman waiting to use the ATM in this bank called police to report a man spending an unusual amount of time at the ATM. When South Portland police officers drove up, they saw this same homeless man inside filling a shopping bag with cash from the ATM. How much? It turns out it's more than $37,000 in cash.

Somebody always has to spoil the fun.

[a fool in paradise]

"When confronted, the man said, 'It's ok, Allen Funt has a hidden camera in here someplace!'"