Leaving money behind in an ATM machine

Celly Smunt · 17-07-2010 09:28PM

I keep buying things then getting my change and leaving the thing i bought at the checkout :mad:

squeakyduck · 17-07-2010 09:35PM

I went to Barcelona last year with my boyfriend. We were on the way to a chocolate factory

and I passed by an ATM and there was money sticking out. I grabbed it and ran. €220 . Some eejit must have been so mad about leaving his money there!!

Shopping spree, free entry to Camp Nou, and a nice slap up meal. Definitely one of the high lights of my trip!

Gunsfortoys · 17-07-2010 09:37PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

I went to Barcelona last year with my boyfriend. We were on the way to a chocolate factory and I passed by an ATM and there was money sticking out. I grabbed it and ran. €220 . Some eejit must have been so mad about leaving his money there!! Shopping spree, free entry to Camp Nou, and a nice slap up meal. Definitely one of the high lights of my trip!

That's a whole dole-cheque to you isn't it?:p

squeakyduck · 17-07-2010 09:38PM

no.....about a day and halfs wages! :P Finders keepers!

Celly Smunt · 17-07-2010 09:39PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

no.....about a day and halfs wages! :P Finders keepers!

minted.

caseyann · 17-07-2010 09:40PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

no.....about a day and halfs wages! :P Finders keepers!

I think that is disgusting :mad:

Tilt Gone · 17-07-2010 09:41PM

squeakyduck wrote: »

I went to Barcelona last year with my boyfriend. We were on the way to a chocolate factory and I passed by an ATM and there was money sticking out. I grabbed it and ran. €220 . Some eejit must have been so mad about leaving his money there!! Shopping spree, free entry to Camp Nou, and a nice slap up meal. Definitely one of the high lights of my trip!

Your boyfriend's name isn't Gary is it???

caseyann · 17-07-2010 09:42PM

Tilt Gone wrote: »

Your boyfriend's name isn't Gary is it???

Oh did you just catch eachother on boards and yous didnt know you were members:p

Tilt Gone · 17-07-2010 09:49PM

caseyann wrote: »

Oh did you just catch eachother on boards and yous didnt know you were members:p

No, just i know someone who was in Barcelona with their girlfriend and same thing happened to them. Plus they were at all the same places.

Min · 17-07-2010 09:54PM

This happened to me a number of years ago, I went to the ATM machine and there was €200 at the machine, I had seen the woman who had just used it and she was heading into the bank. I ran after her and gave her the money, she seemed to be a bit frazzled and tense.

It wasn't mine so I had no problem giving it to the person who owned it.

BluesBerry · 17-07-2010 10:52PM

I remember using an atm in Dunnes Stores these machines required you to remove your credit card before you continued with your transaction there was an eldery gentleman using it before me and seemed to have a bit of trouble working it eventually he gave up and walked of , when I took my turn the machine had up what amount I would to take out ....the man had forgotten to press cancel It would have been so easy for me to take his money but I just cancelled it out back to insert card screen (even if it was so tempting I just could not do that to the poor old gramps)

My point is all atms should be standard

And OP I did hear that before about the money being sucked back in never personaly witnessed it and I would be too afraid to road test it in case I didnt get money back

Run_to_da_hills · 17-07-2010 11:17PM

Last week I came across a card still lodged in an ATM, could have accessed everything in the account. I took it out and handed it into the bank.

stupidusername · 17-07-2010 11:19PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Last week I came across a card still lodged in an ATM, could have accessed everything in the account. I took it out and handed it into the bank.

Surely you'd have to know the PIN to access everything in the account...?

17-07-2010 11:22PM

BluesBerry wrote: »

I remember using an atm in Dunnes Stores these machines required you to remove your credit card before you continued with your transaction there was an eldery gentleman using it before me and seemed to have a bit of trouble working it eventually he gave up and walked of , when I took my turn the machine had up what amount I would to take out ....the man had forgotten to press cancel It would have been so easy for me to take his money but I just cancelled it out back to insert card screen (even if it was so tempting I just could not do that to the poor old gramps)

My point is all atms should be standard

And OP I did hear that before about the money being sucked back in never personaly witnessed it and I would be too afraid to road test it in case I didnt get money back

Ah you outstanding member of society you! Good on you though for not clearing him out, I'm sure there's many a people out there wouldn't have thought twice about it...

ATMs do suck money back in, one night I was out we stumbled to the cash machine to get some funds, some sort of typical drunk antic happened while I was getting my money, distracted me from it for a bit and then the money disappeared back into the machine... either that or one of my b*stard mates swiped it on me when I wasn't looking :rolleyes:

Run_to_da_hills · 17-07-2010 11:25PM

stupidusername wrote: »

Surely you'd have to know the PIN to access everything in the account...?

In this case the PIN had already been typed in and there was options on the screen, who ever took a withdrawl just walked away.

This was inside a shopping CTR beside an Ulster bank, im sure if I decided to make a withdrawl bank staff could have checked time stamps on CCTV and matched them up with the machine.

SIX PACK · 18-07-2010 12:14AM

i was out in temple bar 1 night & i went to get money out of atm & €100 was staring out at me... that was a great free night out

t4k30 · 18-07-2010 12:18AM

Retard.

Run_to_da_hills · 18-07-2010 12:25AM

SIX PACK wrote: »

i was out in temple bar 1 night & i went to get money out of atm & €100 was staring out at me... that was a great free night out

What comes around goes around as they say,

The outgoing tiide will always come back in again.

wylo · 18-07-2010 01:39AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

What comes around goes around as they say,

The outgoing tiide will always come back in again.

thats jst something people say to themselves to make themselves feel better about c*nts getting away with something.

Tigger · 18-07-2010 01:49AM

like robot heaven?

BluesBerry · 21-07-2010 12:29AM

I heard it on the news today that the Banks are to refund customers who didnt take their money from a transaction where the money got sucked back in
http://www.rte.ie/business/2010/0720/boi.html

Frisbee · 21-07-2010 09:47AM

Never had it hapen to me thank God.

When I was in Laos I was standing behind a girl in line for the ATM and the ATM's there are woeful, like after hitting withdraw you could easily be waiting up to 5 minutes for it to dispense your money. She stood there for ages but it went back to the welcome screen so she just assumed that it wasn't going through, about 30 seconds after she would away several hundred thousand kip (about 200euro) popped out. I was absolutely broke at this stage and it was very tempting but I just thought how annoying it would be if it happened to me so I ended up running down the road after her.

She bought me a bottle of the Finest Laos Whiskey in gratitude.

21-07-2010 09:51AM

pmcmahon wrote: »

I keep buying things then getting my change and leaving the thing i bought at the checkout :mad:

I did that once in boots in jervis. Halfway up henry street before I even copped.
Luckily the girl was keeping an eye out for me and had kept my stuff behind the counter, lovely of her