As a matter of fact, while searching for the image I used above, I came across this story (http://www.goodthink.com/writing/view_stories.cfm?id=11) from 1995: a guy named Patrick Combs received an advertisement with a "check" for $95,000 -- marked NON-NEGOTIABLE, of course -- and decided, on a lark, to deposit it at his ATM. And the bank honored it. Oops.
The details of what happened next are lengthy but amusing.
Wow. That's some story. Now I'm trying to remember whether any of the check-like objects that I've gotten in the past couple of years had signatures and such on them.
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Date: 2006-02-08 07:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-08 08:25 pm (UTC)that sounds better than getting some lousy t-shirt
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Date: 2006-02-08 10:21 pm (UTC)I suspect I'd be even happier with an extra $200 in my pocket :-)
(Do banks still give money if they make errors in your favor? Or did they ever?)
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Date: 2006-02-08 10:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-08 10:36 pm (UTC)perhaps.. but it has far less nutritional value.
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Date: 2006-02-09 02:13 am (UTC)The details of what happened next are lengthy but amusing.
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Date: 2006-02-09 03:17 am (UTC)