# Bank Horror: The Conclusion (or is it?) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 21, 1999, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740 "1999-10-21T18:14:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/1 "1999-10-22T05:22:00Z")
In Part One of our soap opera, my idiot bank put three debits through my account that were not mine, for a total of nearly $500.00. Two weeks and a couple of dozen phone calls later(and a brief interval in which they screwed up my direct deposit and lost my paycheck), we have a conclusion at last: Three damaged checks were presented for payment – so badly damaged that they couldn’t really read them. So my idiot bank just took a wild-ass _guess_ as to who to charge them to. My real name is Brida – turns out the checks belong to a Brian with the same last name. So rather than fraud, we have a case of Three Stooges-level stupidity. And I _still_ don’t have my money back – that will take “a couple of days.” I have been deprived of my money, though my bank’s staggering and monumental idiocy, and now they KNOW THAT – and they _still_ won’t give me my money. But they did promise to write a letter of apology :o Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![CatInHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@CatInHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatInHat)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/2 "1999-10-22T05:37:00Z")
Wow. That really is monumental incompetence. Couldn’t they have called and tried to find out who had written the checks, instead of guessing? (you know, done something radical like, oh I don’t know, _called_ you on the _telephone_ and asked?) Sorry, I let my sarcasm out of its cage, and now I can’t get it back in. * * * The Cat In The Hat ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/3 "1999-10-22T05:43:00Z")
Cant wait to hear what form apology letter 3.1 sounds like… They definitely are a bunch of incompetents!!! * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/4 "1999-10-21T18:14:00Z")
Time to close that bank account, Catrandom. (Well, wait until you get your money back first.) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 1999, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/5 "1999-10-21T20:32:00Z")
Ouch. It’s actions like that which make all bankers appear to be stupid fools. (apologies to Satan and jodih). ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/6 "1999-10-22T04:13:00Z")
Yup. And I’m just in shock from the whole thing. I mean, banks are supposed to keep people from stealing your money, not steal it themselves. I wish there was some way I could file criminal charges against them. I have found out who the proper regulatory agency is, and will also be writing letters to the biggest names I can find at the bank itself. Not that that helps _me_, but perhaps I can stir up enough trouble that they’ll be more careful. Catrandom, who still doesn’t have her money back. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 1999, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bank-horror-the-conclusion-or-is-it/9740/7 "1999-10-22T14:33:00Z")
**Catrandom** : > [@](#): > > I mean, banks are supposed to keep people from stealing your money, not steal it themselves. Where in the _world_ did you ever get an idea like _that_?