There's a report in the newspaper this morning about an ATM which gave out twenty pound notes instead of ten pound notes. Word soon spread and people came from around the area to take advantage - one woman even arrived wearing curlers and a nightgown, in a taxi.
The fact that people were so dishonest is disappointing, but not really surprising. The one thing that I don't think would happen elsewhere is that the people queued up in an orderly line to wait their turn to withdraw money. They even agreed a rule that each person was only allowed three withdrawals at one time, and then they had to go to the back of the queue and wait until they got the front of the queue again to make more withdrawals. This continued until the ATM ran out of money. The bank concerned estimates it lost 65,000 pounds, but hasn't yet said what it intends to do about it if anything. Jean in Poole To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
