LOL, bank goes all out with reward

Post by **bitWISE** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:49 am

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005580123,00.html

A BRAVE teenager who saved a bank thousands of pounds by foiling a cash machine scam was rewarded yesterday — with a plastic calculator.

Post by **Scourge** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:51 am

Jeez, the gratitude is overwhelming. lol.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:52 am

i saw that earlier, but it's coming from The Sun, which if iirc, is a tabloid. so i'm not sure of the credibility of it.

if it's true, it's yet more proof how banking institutions never SPEND anything.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:11 am

Look, right. The Sun is a tabloid, but the notion that they would make up a piece of news like this is absurd. The bank would take them to court and they'd lose millions.

Post by **S@M** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:15 am

it probably did not have a battery and he had to go buy one..

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:23 am

Foo wrote:Look, right. The Sun is a tabloid, but the notion that they would make up a piece of news like this is absurd. The bank would take them to court and they'd lose millions.

well if they're like our idiotic tabloids here in the states, they get away with all kinds of stories much worse than that.

Post by **Foo** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:26 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:well if they're like our idiotic tabloids here in the states, they get away with all kinds of stories much worse than that.

Really? Man that's crazy.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:30 am

it's why i laugh at people that pick them up at the grocery line in the impulse item racks, and laugh harder at those that actually purchase them.

American media knows no shame :\

Post by **seremtan** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:23 am

lol, pathetic

kid shows initiative and in return he gets a plastic calculator and even plasticier platitudes about risk and safety

Post by **Bdw3** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:12 am

S@M wrote:it probably did not have a battery and he had to go buy one..

It cleary has a solar panel on it. The bank's way of saving him money no doubt. :icon14:

Post by **mjrpes** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:17 am

Maybe the bank thought it had a good reason to do this. It emphasized the public safety hazard thing enough. Perhaps they fear liability if people start putting life and limb in danger in order to get a reward.

Post by **Transient** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:28 am

Foo wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:well if they're like our idiotic tabloids here in the states, they get away with all kinds of stories much worse than that.
Really? Man that's crazy.

Oh, yeah. They can make bold-faced lies, so long as they have fine print obscured somewhere in the mag.