Money For Nothing…

April 29th, 2004

I love this news story about a cashpoint in the village of Wooler which was loaded with £20 notes instead of £10 notes and started handing out double the money to everyone making a withdrawal. In particular, it’s the image from the Daily Telegraph’s report of a queue of dressing gown-clad villagers waiting patiently for midnight, when a new banking day would start and they could hit their maximum daily withdrawal limit (x2) all over again.

I can just see the feature film or TV movie now: a sort of low-budget with a Bill Forsyth feel, a Northumbrian Local Hero.

[Daily Telegraph story via qwghlmBlog]

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5 Responses to “Money For Nothing…”

  1. sarah Says:
    April 29th, 2004 at 10:46 pm

    I like the quote:

    “There were people coming from all over the place, from Powburn, Millfield and Lowick.”

  2. sarah Says:
    April 29th, 2004 at 10:46 pm

    I like the quote:

    “There were people coming from all over the place, from Powburn, Millfield and Lowick.”

    I’m kicking myself - I drove through Wooler on that day!

  3. John Says:
    April 29th, 2004 at 10:58 pm

    The lesson being that when driving through a village you should always keep one eye open for a cashpoint machine with 1/3 of the village’s population queuing up to use it.

  4. Gary Farber Says:
    April 29th, 2004 at 11:49 pm

    “Money For Nothing”

    Or Patti Smith’s “Free Money.”

  5. John Says:
    April 30th, 2004 at 7:01 am

    Unfortunately I’m unfamiliar with the latter track, so it never occurred to me to steal the title for my post.

    I’m sure it says a great deal - none of it very good - about my musical tastes that I immediately thought of rock dinosaurs Dire Straits when writing that entry…

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