Double your money at cash machine

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/business/articles/timid77556?source=

THE people of Wooler will always remember the night their cash machine brought them unexpected good fortune. Villagers using the Barclays machine were delighted to find it was paying out double the amount asked for.
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The dash for cash began last Wednesday at around 9pm when it is thought staff from Securicor wrongly loaded the cash machine with £20 notes in a cassette intended for £10 notes.

Regulars at the local pubs took advantage of the error - and then returned again after midnight to repeat the trick as it was a new banking day.
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'Our policy is that we will get back to whoever caused the error in the first place and ask them to compensate us for the loss.'

The strange thing is, Barclays couldn't give money away earlier - people belive their mates in a pub, but not a sign in a bank window:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3667775.stm

Bank fails in free money giveaway

A branch of Barclays bank tried - and failed - to give away money to passers-by.
A sign in the window of a branch in Croydon, south London, offered a £5 note to anyone who stepped inside to collect it.

But bank officials say no-one took up the bargain because no one believed it.

The experiment, carried out for two hours one day in January, was to help Barclays understand "what engages customers as they walk past branches".

[candy]

1. Damn! I thought this was a "how to" thread.

Funny,though!