Posted on 09/08/2019 10:02:04 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
A couple in Pennsylvania is facing theft charges and over $100,000 in overdraft fees after allegedly using money that was accidentally deposited into their bank account, WITN reports.
State police said the couple living at a home on Cypress Street in Montoursville got themselves into hot water after spending money that wasn't theirs.
Investigators said Robert and Tiffany Williams had $120,000 deposited into their account at BB&T May 31 through a mistake by a teller. But instead of contacting the bank about the deposit, the couple allegedly spent most of the money in just over two weeks from June 3 to June 19.
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Isn’t possession 9/10ths of the law?
If the bank accidentally deposited it into their account, isn’t it then theirs?
Having worked in the bank this is almost 100% human error. It is rare for “the computer to make a mistake.
In the small print on every disclosure you get when you open an account (which NO ONE reads) it will tell you that you cannot keep monies deposited in error.
How many of these stories do you need to read to figure out the money is not yours. Stupid people.
It’s kind of like those casinos where someone wins $20 mil at progressive slot machine play, and then the management says “it was a software error” and refuses to hand over the money.
Courts don’t view it like that.
A teller once handed me $1000 too much. I told her but she it was correct. She called me the next morning to ask pretty please that I return it. I promptly did.
I wonder if it’s really “theft” if the money ended up in their account by mistake?
Legally speaking, I mean, they didn’t “steal” it.
Legally speaking, I see they are required to pay it back. I just question if it’s really “theft” if they had nothing to do with this money ending up in their account in the first place.
There was an episode of the Simpsons where Grandpa Simpson got a check meant for Bart. The dialog went something like this:
Bart: Grandpa, didn’t you think it was unusual that you got money for doing nothing?
Grandpa Simpson: I just figured the Democrats were back in power.
Stupid. They had to know it was a bank error and they had no right to that money.
The bank made a mistake, but that still doesn’t justify their behavior.
Finders keepers.
This is NOT “theft”. It does not meet the legal definition. Their attorney should have them plead not guilty to “theft
and let it go to trial. A skilled attorney would win the case. Prosecutors are really stupid these days.
What ever happened to just doing the right thing?
Is an honest person that scarce nowadays?
LMAO.
The sheer balls on some people.
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Yes...the next thing you know, some guy is going to claim a ‘fake’ hate crime (double header- race-lifestyle) and the police will investigate, figure out the guy is lying, charges him with various crimes, says will drop ALL charges but he is liable for the money spent investigating his FALSE CHARGES.
Then, rather than be ‘thankful’ that the serious charges ‘went away’, his attorney will say it is the Police Dept fault for taking him seriously when it was obvious it was a lie from the beginning, so he shouldn’t have to pay.
Don’t laugh, something like that is liable to happen so just because you find 100 thou in your account all you have to say is you either
Knew your husband was getting a bonus
Your tax return was a direct deposit and you really weren’t sure what your refund was
Your company deposits your/spouse check by direct deposit and you figured that raise you put in for may have come through.
OR (my favorite)....
I THOUGHT THE BANK WAS RETURNING ALL THOSE BOUNCED CHECK AND LATE PAYMENT FEES....
What’s really stupid is that they could have turned the money and made a profit on something and then return the money, but instead, they spent it. Very, very foolish.
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