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God Bless America

  • 01-10-2005 10:00am
    #1
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭


    http://members.boards.ie/hagar/Red Cross.gif

    Astrodome: Within two minutes of AFP photographer Stanly Honda electronically publishing a photo of Katrina victim Latesha Vinette holding up her Red Cross debit card, Ms. Vinette was paged by the management of Reliant stadium to receive a call from Mastercard asking about cash advances totally $65,237, the attempted purchase of a Ferrari automobile using her card #, along with hundreds of purchases from eBay, including, ironically, camping gear.


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  • #2
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Makes more sense if you explained it more:
    http://www.snopes.com/katrina/photos/debitcard.asp


  • #3
    Politakill
    Closed Accounts Posts: 42 ✭Politakill


    Down with America.


  • #4
    whiskeyman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    Side to side with America...


  • #5
    CrimE
    Closed Accounts Posts: 719 ✭✭✭CrimE


    Careful now.


  • #6
    JackKelly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,225 ✭✭✭JackKelly


    so they are given debit cards worth 2000 dollars. Where exactly do they use them?


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  • #7
    boardy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭boardy


    Don't understand the "God Bless America" part.
    Is it implied that the fraud was happening in America? But that doesn't make sense since the card details was available on the web.

    Maybe it is not a sarcastic thread title, as the poster may believe that giving out $2,000 debit cards was a good way to help Katrina evacuees who had no access to cash.


  • #8
    Sparky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭Sparky


    the idiots who posted the picture should of at least blanked out the numbers FFS, or if the person was smart she should of put her finger over the last numbers.


  • #9
    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    TimAy wrote:
    so they are given debit cards worth 2000 dollars. Where exactly do they use them?

    Anywhere they like....Wal Mart would prolly be a good bet.
    Two grand isn't going to last pissing time, if you're someone displaced, who used to have a roof over your head


  • #10
    EKRIUQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    Well that pays for my boards sub this year:)


  • #11
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    boardy wrote:
    Don't understand the "God Bless America" part.

    It was all I could think of at the time.:D


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  • #12
    Karl Hungus
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    Oh, rofflecakes! :D


  • #13
    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    wow,robbing someone who's already just lost everything they own, that's pretty f*cking low.
    It's a stupid mistake that the picture was published unedited but the fact that someone would actually go use those numbers disgusts me.


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