Free money? An ATM story!

[finn's mom]

Wow, that's crazy. I'm just more mesmerized by the thought of having $77,000 in my bank account. ha ha, good call on your part, Richard!

[RICHARD]

Hi, Ms/Mr Teller-inside-the-building,

I pulled up behind someone that left their account open and I needed to get to MY MONEY so I touched some buttons on the screen.

I didn't take anything out of his bank account but here's my name and address, just in case his account gets messed up and you need someone to blame for his stupidity.

Peeve?

People who rely on modern technology to take care of them.

[Jessika]

You misunderstood, I know you didn't have any criminal intent I'm just saying if that were me I would have done that, not that you should or should have. You live in the US too correct? And you can know how... corrupted our legal system can be sometimes. You're right its his mistake and eventually he's not going to have someone so nice or honest behind him as you were. I guess its just a courtesy thing on my behalf to let the bank know, as well as covering my own butt, you know?? Maybe its different in CA though

I wasn't saying that's what you SHOULD have done I'm just saying, its what I would have done. Not saying what you did was wrong!!

[ramanth]

I've actually walked up to several ATM's where the previous user forgot to 'log out', so to speak. I always hit no or cancel. I've never been brazen enough to scroll around an account.

This usually happened at Dragon*Con in Atlanta. The ATM's in the food court and hotels are the kind that Richard describe. You only have to slide the card at the beginning of the transaction, it doesn't keep the card until the end.

[JenBKR]

Good job Richard. I know how tempting that can be, but it's not worth it. We have a few of these kinds of ATMs around here too, but I've never gone up to one that had not been cleared.

[RICHARD]

For the record!

What I did was wrong.

What I could have done was worse.

The style of ATM and the program allows you to push one button for cash, and then gives you the balance of the account.

It's was all there!

[caseysmom]

You did fine Richard....I hope your behind me at the atm if I ever mess up.

[RICHARD]

I just remembered this from last week..

On Thursday, I went to the newspaper vending machine...
I put in the 50 cents to get my paper and the door would not open...
I gave the handle a few jerks to get my money back and an extra 1.50
came out.

I did have a moment where I thought about the three people before me that lost their money........


I did pocket the money......

Does that offset the bank thing????

[Van10]

You did fine Richard....I hope your behind me at the atm if I ever mess up.

Me too!

[RICHARD]

I flipped down the visor of the car and found some money I forgot I had stashed up there....


Should I play the Lotto this week?

[gemini9961]

You did fine Richard....I hope your behind me at the atm if I ever mess up.

I don't want him behind me, don't want anyone else to know exactly how poor I am and that I have no money in the bank.

[king2005]

Silly man, some people are in too much of a hurry.

Richard, if you ever try to take out a 20.00 & a 50.00 comes out, you can empty tour entire account & NOT get in trouble for it (or atleast not in Canada). Its an AWESOME rule Once in downtown Ottawa, one drum had all 50.00s in it insted of 20.00s & someone took all 50,000.00s of the 50.00s. HAHAHAHA

Ya I'm bad, I would have done the same thing, only because i know for fact that NO ONE will get in trouble for it, because they have no proof who put the drum in the wrong spot, because 90% of ATM's DO NOT have real cameras in Ontario !! Well & the law/rules don't cover it (aslong as the company rushs to the ATM to fix the problem, then they are covered)