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OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Arild Tofte and Kaare Heggdal know that recycling pays, but they weren't quite prepared for the jackpot that a scrapped cash machine contained.
It was still full of cash. Enough to buy a house and take a luxury vacation.
The two Norwegians run a recycling company in the western Norway town of Aaroedalen, and had been hired by the Sparebanken Moere bank to remove an outdated automatic teller machine, or ATM, from a gas station, media reported Wednesday.
Tofte, 30, said the woman on duty at the gas station was more than a little skeptical when two men showed up with a trolley and a truck, wanting to remove her ATM.
"She calmed down when I explained that the machine was empty and that we had a contract to pick it up," Tofte told the local Romsdals Budstikke newspaper.
During their rounds to pick up more scrap, they got a call saying a security guard was seeking the machine.
"The guy was apparently a bit agitated," said Tofte. "He was very eager to empty the cash from the machine."
The cash was removed. The bank - which blamed the incident on a communications mix-up - didn't say how much was in the ATM. But Tofte said the guard who emptied the machine told him it was enough to buy a house, take a luxury vacation and still have money to burn.source
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Posted 15 January 2005 - 01:11 PM
A comunication mix up 
Every time i use the bank i always have a comunication mix up
Bank tellars cant comuncate they are like robots
No wonder this happened......next please..what can i do for you today?
You can shut the f-ck up and give me your cash
Every time i use the bank i always have a comunication mix up
Bank tellars cant comuncate they are like robots
No wonder this happened......next please..what can i do for you today?
You can shut the f-ck up and give me your cash
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Posted 16 January 2005 - 09:20 AM
QUOTE(AztecInca @ Jan 16 2005, 12:56 AM)
Well the peoples confidence in that bank to handle their money must be just sky high!
I didnt know it was the banks money,i thought it was every ones?
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Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:07 PM
QUOTE(warden @ Jan 16 2005, 09:20 AM)
QUOTE(AztecInca @ Jan 16 2005, 12:56 AM)
Well the peoples confidence in that bank to handle their money must be just sky high!
I didnt know it was the banks money,i thought it was every ones?
This is america, the moneys on lone from the rich.
The stupider people think you are, the more suprised they are when you kill them.
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History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luthur king Jr, activist
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin luthur King Jr., activist
- Unknown
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
-Martin Luthur king Jr, activist
Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.
- Martin luthur King Jr., activist
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