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10:00 August 10th, 2006

So, like, you guys can’t spell ATM?

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Sometimes I’d give a lot of money just to see people’s reactions.

Like, for instance, the crooks who used a truck, a net and a rope to pull an ATM from its moorings and hoist it through a glass wall and down a flight of stairs, and then found out they had taken the wrong machine.  Here’s the story:
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Customers withdraw money from an ATM in Kuala Lumpur in a a file photo. REUTERS

 

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According to the police report, one criminal said “man, this is worse than the time I handed that bank teller a note that said ‘I’ve got a ung, give me the honey’”

- Posted by Melly

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