stick your money in my pocket. just once.

so today we read an interesting situation. a man. just a normal ol' georger duder. he does to the bank right? he whips out his atm card, leans out of his 1984 ford truck thats rusting out, sticks his card in the atm, punches in his pin code (which is probably his wifes birthday so he doesn't forget) gets out $20, grabs the receipt, drives off. then he gets home. its late. hes had a few beers. and he empties out his pocket on his birds-eye maple dresser his wife bought him at an antique store. he glances at his receipt and notices a very large number. a VERY large number.

and hot dang! hes off. back to the atm. whats the limit he thinks? 300 bucks. done! and the saga continues.

fyi, it would take 267 days to withdrawal 80 g's from an atm.

LA VISTA — A La Vista man is charged with felony theft after he spent $80,000 his bank deposited in his account by mistake.

George J. Costa, 45, is charged in Sarpy County with theft of lost or mislaid property. It is a crime to take money that’s been “delivered under a mistake.”

More than $106,000 was deposited into Costa’s account between August 2006 and February after a Pinnacle Bank employee mixed up account numbers, according to the Nebraska State Patrol.
The bank was able to recover $26,000 from Costa’s account after the mistake was recovered.

“’Finder’s keepers’ and ’possession is nine-tenths of the law’ aren’t legal principles,” said Sarpy County Attorney Lee Polikov.

Costa’s lawyer, James Martin Davis, said Costa is willing to work out repayment in civil court but shouldn’t be charged criminally.

“If somebody sticks money in your pocket and you spend it, you can’t be convicted of theft,” he said. [link]