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Student went on insane spending spree after mistakenly receiving £850,000 grant (South Africa)
thesun.co.uk ^ | 1st September 2017 | By Maryse Godden and Jamie Pyatt in Cape Town

Posted on 09/02/2017 12:21:50 PM PDT by dennisw

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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

She says she told somebody about the mistake...but gives no details...and as is standard promises to tell ‘her side of the story’ at a later date. IOW she probably told nobody.


21 posted on 09/02/2017 1:24:23 PM PDT by lacrew
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To: dennisw

Klepto culture.


22 posted on 09/02/2017 1:29:11 PM PDT by the_daug
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To: dennisw

Come on, she’s gonna be an accountant.

What’s all the fuss over a few couple of zeros?


23 posted on 09/02/2017 1:33:40 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: I want the USA back

But she IS a specially-privileged government-certified minority group member. This is South Africa. It’s the LAW!


24 posted on 09/02/2017 1:42:51 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: ichabod1

In South Africa, she isn’t a minority person.


25 posted on 09/02/2017 1:47:26 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: dennisw

YEARS ago, there was a hand-to-mouth NJ small business owner who inadvertently received $10,000 via a banking error. He immediately disappeared. They found him a few weeks later in Las Vegas when he bought a Cadillac (I said this was YEARS ago :-) ) He spent the rest on hookers.

When they brought him back, they asked him why didn’t he just return the money. He said that “When you’ve been eating hamburger all your life and somebody throws you a steak, whaddaya gonna do?”

He lost the Caddy. The hookers? “Best time of my life.”


26 posted on 09/02/2017 2:18:10 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: ameribbean expat

She might get a job at Arthur Andersen.


27 posted on 09/02/2017 2:27:07 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: Ken H

I was thinking the Clinton Foundation, myself.


28 posted on 09/02/2017 2:33:36 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: dennisw

Women. She knew it was a massive error. She spent it anyways and assumes zero blame, blaming the people who made the error. Like they were not ever going to find out and correct it.

Good grief.


29 posted on 09/02/2017 2:36:09 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: aquila48

She should have spent the money on something more permanent - maybe some plastic surgery.


30 posted on 09/02/2017 2:45:38 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dennisw
She said: "Today my personal life has become a social media scandal. I have been named and shamed in public. Today, I am a bad person, a person who stole the money of students.

Yup, you are and you did.

Entitlement mentality and blame-shifting, the hallmarks of this generation.

31 posted on 09/02/2017 3:38:21 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: Oatka

“He spent the rest on hookers.”

I live in Vegas! I think it was Willie Nelson who said “I spent most of my money on booze, drugs and women. The rest I just wasted.”


32 posted on 09/02/2017 4:12:57 PM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: dennisw

Old Steve Martin routine.

But your Honor, I didn’t know that Bank Robbery was against the Law.


33 posted on 09/02/2017 4:19:36 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: metmom

At least she speaks (types correctly at least) better English than most Gen Ys back in the states :/


34 posted on 09/02/2017 5:07:07 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: dennisw

She should have invested it so that she would get returns (an extra bit of cash) before they took it back :p


35 posted on 09/02/2017 5:08:04 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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I would spend not more than half on a fast car, a bike or two, keep the rest for maintenance and a better carport.

Yep, and booz and women...Then I probly would have wasted the rest...

36 posted on 09/02/2017 5:44:20 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: dennisw

She should have started a foundation and then she could keep all the money.


37 posted on 09/02/2017 9:08:46 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON

The Human Fund.

Money For People.


38 posted on 09/02/2017 9:18:33 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Take Covfefe Ree Zig!)
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