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April 29, 2004
Money For Nothing...
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]
Posted by John at April 29, 2004 05:34 PM
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I like the quote:
"There were people coming from all over the place, from Powburn, Millfield and Lowick."
Posted by: sarah at April 29, 2004 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!
Posted by: sarah at April 29, 2004 10:46 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.
Posted by: John at April 29, 2004 10:58 PM
"Money For Nothing"
Or Patti Smith's "Free Money."
Posted by: Gary Farber at April 29, 2004 11:49 PM
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...
Posted by: John at April 30, 2004 07:01 AM