Slides ‘help me’ note to bystanders.
No, I’m not making this up, it really happened.
He should probably be fired, not for getting locked in per se, but because he was “attempting to change the lock on the machine” & got locked in. Dumbass! :smack:
Yes, but where was Jill Goodacre?
He was pretty clever to think of slipping the notes out.
On a link in that article:
Texas law will allow open carry of knives, swords.
And not before time either. Thoughtful Texans must have long bemoaned not having enough weaponry on the street.
I’m having trouble understanding the purpose of an ATM room?
Isn’t all the money inside the machine? I’ve seen ATM’s outside bank’s mounted on a wall. Didn’t look like there was a room behind it. Maybe a service panel.
Weird story. Glad the guy got out uninjured.
2nd story
I’ve always carried a sheathed knife and a Leatherman multi tool on my belt for backpacking trips and hunting. I don’t remove it if I go into town to buy supplies or eat. My shirt covers it anyhow.
It’s amazing to think we actually need a law now to wear a knife.
No way! He was locked in, therefore the lock worked, ergo, he did his job
Most ATMs attached to a building have a room behind the ATMB so that the person servicing the machine can lock behind him so that no one can attempt to rob him. Much more secure than a panel where anyone can just walk up behind him.
I understand now. Thank you.
I wouldn’t want to be exposed to the public either, filling a machine with money.
Reminds me of a real-life version of “Help! I’m being held captive in a fortune cookie factory!”
And of course I didn’t mean ATMB. :smack: Damm you, auto incorrect!
ATM machines at banks aren’t like two-dimensional flat-screen TV’s that you just hang on the wall there. What the customer sees from the outside of the back is just the front panel, or façade, of the machine.
The rest of the machine(s) is in a, basically, little closet inside the bank behind the exterior wall. There’s a door inside the bank leading into the room. It’s keep locked at all times, of course, except when a bank employee is in there (e.g., to put money into the machine or do any other service there).
Still, seems very odd (and I would think illegal) that the door locks in such a way that a person inside the closet cannot get out. Has the county Fire Marshall taken note of this?
Anecdote: One day I went to a bank and got unusually good service from a teller there. (I had only been there once before, and yet she remembered my name!) Then I dealt briefly with some other employee on some other matter. Meanwhile, the first employee went into the ATM closet to do whatever business there, with the door closed behind here.
Before I left, I went to that room and knocked on the door, intending to thank the employee for her good service. But another employee leaped to her feet, dashed over and said something like “NO NO NO YOU CAN’T GO IN THERE!” like she was all shook up or something, like maybe I was trying to rob the ATM or something? You’d have thought I was trying to break into an airline cockpit. Anyway, the employee inside opened the door, and I thanked her for her service and then walked away.
I see a Republican Gubernatorial nomination in his future.
Well, we do have a room behind the ATMB, too. But that’s a separate matter.
Is it utterly locked, secured, and guarded against incursion by the Teeming Millions?
The new law allows for rather larger blades than that.
At last Confederate re-enactors can honor the good old cause by sitting down in a bar with a cavalry sabre.
