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Cash Giveaways


caldrail

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I was browsing the news on the web when I stumbled on a story about an asian couple who ran a petrol station in Rotorua, New Zealand. Apparently Westpac Bank had deposited ten million NZ Dollars into their bank account by accident. The couple are now on the run and some of the money has been recovered.

 

A few times there's been stories of ATM's going haywire and spewing out money like no tomorrow. I remember one news story going back a few years where people were queueing up to fill their pockets at a Hole In The Wall.

 

It seems banks like handing out money. If their machines don't give it away by accident, their employees will. But there's other examples of financial silliness. Once again we return to New Zealand (by coincidence) where a three year old toddler bought a large earth mover/digger on an online auction at the low low price of

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I won $2 on a scratch ticket- by way of finding said scratch ticket in the gas station parking lot. I went in, cashed it and took the two bucks. ;)

 

One school district not to far from here accidentally sold a trailer that had been used as a classroom on Ebay for $.01. They tried to back out of the sale but couldn't.

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