Double your money ?

Yet another instance in today’s paper of a cash machine at a supermarket paying out double the amount requested.
Naturally a huge queue formed as people spread the word.No action will be taken to recover the amounts wrongly paid out.
What’s the morality here ? Is it stealing ?
Would you have joined the queue ?

Of course it’s stealing… it’s other peoples money…what sort of dolt would think they could get away with it and not be caught by the authorities…greedy people that’s who!!!

Yet another instance in today’s paper of a cash machine at a supermarket paying out double the amount requested.
Naturally a huge queue formed as people spread the word.No action will be taken to recover the amounts wrongly paid out.
What’s the morality here ? Is it stealing ?
Would you have joined the queue ?

Would I join the queue ? Hmmmm probably not. 😀

This happened in the Manchester area a few months ago and the local TV got a lawyer in whose opinion was that anybody who could argue that they did not know the machine was faulty could keep the money. If the bank can prove you exploited it, it is theft.

Or, as he then put it delightfully simply, put your card in once, keep the money. Do it twice and it is theft.