Theft by any other name.

An ATM in London was found to be paying out double the amount requested earlier this week. The drawer for 10s was accidently filled with 20s so it was doubling the money without charging the account for the other half.

Over a $158 thousand dollars was withdrawn from that ATM, and the line to use it stretched most of the way down the street. What absolutely amazes me is that people told all of their friends, took advantage of this, but apparently no one told the bank. What makes people think they have a right to steal from the bank in this way? And yes, it is stealing. Do our societies have no sense of right and wrong anymore?

The bank says that they're not making them pay the money back, which just encourages them to do the same thing if it ever happens again. They have a record of who withdrew, and I'm sure they've got a video camera in the machine that can show everyone's elated and sneaky looks when they get too much money. Although they might not know how much each person got, they could at least charge them a penalty fee for not reporting the malfunctioning ATM. There is a good argument that this was conspiracy to commit theft.