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  • ATM $37,000: Homeless Man Scores Big Payout

    ATM $37,000: Homeless Man Scores Big Payout

    Sounds like the universe was giving a guy a break — Or NOT — when a homeless man tried to withdraw $140 from an ATM Thursday.

    Instead, the man finished his business at the machine $37,000 richer.

    It took some time for all that money to eject from the machine. So long that a woman called police to come to the TD Bank Branch in South Portland, Maine. She told police the man if front of her was taking far too long at the ATM.

    According to a police statement, officers found the man stuffing cash into a shopping bag.

    (Pause for a moment of laughter)

    Lt. Todd Bernard of the South Portland Police Department told the Bangor Daily News the unidentified man tried to repeatedly request $700 using the “cash advance” feature on the machine.

    He only had $100 in his account.

    The ATM honored his request an estimated 53 times before police arrived and intervened.

    Generally, the cash advance option only works on an ATM for people who have a pre-approved line of credit with a bank — the homeless man didn’t. However, according to a bank official, a “code error” allowed the transactions to proceed.

    “It is illegal. He is taking money that doesn’t belong to him, and the bank at this point has elected not to prosecute, although the case is still under investigation,” Bernard said. “That ATM has been taken out of service and is being checked out to determine why it malfunctioned.”

    The money was returned to the bank and bank officials say they don’t want to press charges. But police don’t seem to be as forgiving as they continue to investigate the incident.

    I wonder if he got his $100?

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  • ATM $37,000: A Man’s Get Rich & Lose it Quick Scheme

    A Maine news website tells us how a homeless man in South Portland, Maine– with an ATM card and 140 dollars in his account –somehow found a way to make a quick profit and had his hands on $37,000 all for five minutes.

    As he maneuvered the ATM to do his bidding, the woman waiting behind him got impatient suspicious and called the police. As the police rolled up, he was seen shoveling copious amounts of greenbacks into a shopping bag in sure efforts not to look completely like a bank robber.

    The unnamed man started with withdrawing $140, which he apparently actually did have in his account– but something signaled him to keep going. And keep going he did until he reached up to $37,000. There is a possibility that he might have gotten more if the lady behind him was not so impatient that she called the police about his dawdling.

    The bank, for obvious reasons, will not detail what made this glitch occur and the machine was put down all day Friday. They did not press charges on the man, although it was pretty obvious that a little finagling was used to receive the large amount of funds. The police have also divulged that they have dealt with this man before, but they decided to just promptly return the money and leave it at that.

    A bank ATM can hold up to $200,000. It makes one wonder if the kinda-a-bank robber-but-not guy knew this and was banking on signing a new lease on life that early Thursday morning.

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