Who’d worry about the global economic slowdown if all the ATM’s in the world were as generous as the one at a petrol station in Manchester, UK?
At 11 am this last Thursday, this ‘adorable’ ATM simply started doubling the requested cash for everyone. Hundreds flocked to the Nationwide ATM with multiple bank cards and made hay during the ‘happy hour’ which actually extended till 5 pm until an engineer was called to fix the cash-happy machine.
“There was a problem,” a spokesperson for Nationwide commented. “We are investigating what transactions took place.
“It is disappointing no one reported the matter earlier in the day when lots of people were aware and it is disappointing some people were deliberately using the machine to take extra money. Legally, recipients of payments made by mistakes are not entitled to benefit from it.
“We will reserve the right to contact people about the matter on an individual basis.”
Is this the first time in history that an ATM went berserk? Not really. An article about a similar incident appeared in the Indian edition of the Reader’s Digest in 2007.
Tags: Humor, Technology
Tags: Humor, Technology