Posted on 07/13/2017 8:44:01 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas A Texas man who became trapped inside an ATM slipped notes to customers via the receipt slot pleading for them to help him escape, police said Thursday.
The contractor became stuck Wednesday when he was changing a lock to a Bank of America room that leads to the back of the ATM, Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper said. He couldnt let himself out of the room because he didnt have a keycard on him and was unable to notify bank employees for help.
Apparently he left his cellphone and the swipe card he needed to get out of the room outside in his truck, Hooper said.
When he realized customers were retrieving cash from the machine, he passed notes to them through the ATM receipt slot. One read, Please help. Im stuck in here and I dont have my phone. Please call my boss ...
Some customers appeared to dismiss the notes as a gag, Hooper said
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It is very difficult to make something completely idiot proof. Some idiots are very resourceful.
Also, everyone makes mistakes - you & me included.
Give the repairman and the designers a pass and a thank you for the good laugh.
Explanation, please, for us culturally ignorant folks?
If this guy was there to change the lock, I don't understand why he couldn't just remove the lock... I must be missing some info in this story.
Thanks for the enlightenment.
I’m one of the two people in the USA who has never watched a complete episode of Seinfeld. It aired during the period when I spent a lot of time in Africa. While home, I lived in the boonies with neither TV nor Cable.
I did drive to town to watch ACC & SEC football, just to keep my intellectual faculties exercised...
This has Candid Camera written all over it.
Bank manager
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