ATM Stole Your Money? What Now?
Have you ever used an ATM to deposit money into your account? Well what would you do if you fed all your money into the ATM and it gave you an error, but not your money.
Mr. Mao, a janitor in Shenzhen China, inserted 7,000 yuan (around $1,000) of hard earned money into an ATM, but the machine spit out his card and displayed an “Out of Order” error.
He then checked his account at another ATM right next to it and found that the money had not been deposited into his account.
So Mao, not willing to allow anyone else to take his money, called his family and had them bring him a portable bed and table, where he then camped out in front of the ATM all night until the bank opened.
The next morning, the bank employees checked the broken machine and return Mao his money.
(link)
By Mui Mui on 18-04-2009
Comment by Victor
April 18th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Greedy bastard. Instead of spending time with his family he rather spend time with his money. No trust in the universe
Comment by Hugo
April 18th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Greed? maybe that was the only thing that would feed his family for the week.
Comment by Paulo
April 18th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Greed? I’d beat the crap out of that machine just to get my money!
Comment by Logan
April 18th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
I’d like to shake his hand.
Well done.
Comment by count duckula
April 18th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
Remember it ,Write it down, take a picture, I don’t give a f*ck.
Comment by Chuck Norris
April 18th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
You’re really a dumbass, aren’t you?
Comment by ..
April 18th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
lmao ignorance… hmm a lowly janitor in china who is most likely earning less than minimum wage wants to keep his 1 grand? i think its logical or else he wont have a family to spend time with
Comment by sara
April 18th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
he’s my hero.
Comment by jake
April 18th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
FIRST!
Comment by Miko
April 19th, 2009 at 12:33 am
Does it feel good to be a troll?
Comment by Hariharakumar
April 19th, 2009 at 3:59 am
Nice info man very much useful for all, thanks. I think keeping out of order board on the ATM door will keep away people.
Comment by zeus
April 19th, 2009 at 6:55 am
The game. He won.
Comment by Raj
April 19th, 2009 at 7:51 am
I don’t trust the ATMs with deposits.
Comment by greg
April 19th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I agree. What a selfish bastard, letting his wife and kids fend for themselves while he relaxes in a hammock. Shocked he’s not black. (waits for more self righteous internet morons to take the troll bait).
Comment by aasd
April 19th, 2009 at 11:03 am
your mom is here?
Comment by photo
April 19th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Photoshopped
Comment by Jilly
April 19th, 2009 at 11:56 am
$1000 will more than likely feed his family for over a month in China, and that money was earned over the course of months. I don’t know anyone here in the US who wouldn’t flip if this happened to them, janitor, bank manager, whatever, and this guy’s family probably understood his need to make sure that money doesn’t get stolen from him by unscrupulous tellers.
Shame on the people who judge what he did. You need to walk a mile in his shoes first.
Comment by ihateyou
April 19th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
Your Gay , and your father sleeps with young Boys.
Comment by ihateyou
April 19th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
Your Gay , and your father sleeps with young Boys.
I call it the Micheal Jacson Syndrom.
Comment by I can spell
April 20th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
It’s “You’re”.
Idiot.
And don’t get me started on the capital B.
Comment by gold
April 20th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
i didn’t start the flame war….
Comment by Amagad
April 21st, 2009 at 3:31 am
Awesome video
Comment by Another internidiot
April 21st, 2009 at 2:29 pm
I think he was saying, “Your Gay,” as in the slave you own named, “Gay” in concert with your father, sleep with the entirety of a nascent organization called, “Boys.”
He did not get the plural agreement with the verb “sleep” right though. When making a compound subject, the verb needs to be plural.
“Dogs fornicate with ihateyou’s fugly mother,” not, “Dogs *fornicates* with ihateyou’s fugly mother.”
Another example might be “Ihateyou’s mother’s meat hangers are huge,” not, “Ihateyou’s mother’s meat hangers *is* huge.”
Comment by Chris
April 21st, 2009 at 2:51 pm
$1000 will feed a family anywhere for at least a month. Unless you’re like those freaks with 10+ kids.
Comment by EvilGod
April 21st, 2009 at 3:30 pm
You go by the name Chuck Norris and you call other people dumbass? Wow!
And yes, I am aware he was just trolling. Not everyone online have been so long enough to realise most people online are infantile imbeciles.
Comment by Jifbo
April 21st, 2009 at 3:36 pm
10+ kids? This is china… They only get one….
Think before you speak
Comment by whizzle
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 am
i totally applaud this guy on having the follow through and gumption to wait outside of a bank in the dull fluorescent glow,not to let the banks win, with the faint smell of fish waffling his way…..waiting on the store to open to retrieve the money he was not given credit for, the money that was unjustly stolen from him………………….but wait a sec, why the fuck was he feeding a machine that kind of money?depositing his hard earned money into an electronic waste basket,this too was a hard lesson grasshopper.
Comment by whizzle
April 22nd, 2009 at 12:42 am
well i had this great piece written out, but didnt go through oh well, just sucks he wasted his time, dont feed money to strangers
Comment by Robert Timothy Clemens
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:35 am
wow that wasnt racist at all
Comment by ardwlf
April 23rd, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Miss on you pister, you ain’t so muckin fuch! Go in your own jackyard and back off!!
Comment by TRAG
April 23rd, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Only in Kenyaaa!
Comment by Traveller
April 24th, 2009 at 1:38 am
I’ll call bullsh*t on this story as RMB7000 is a VERY thick wad of notes.
Can you deposit USD$7000 into an ATM? I don’t think so. It’s won’t fit in the slot.
Also, the amount won’t be registered in the account until the envelope has been counted the next day by the bank and manually confirmed.
Comment by Miranda
April 24th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Traveller – yes, I could fit $7000 in an ATM. In ones, no, but Wells Fargo ATMS take up to like 30 bills. Aaaand wrong again, I have deposited cash (biggest amount at once was $400, at night when bank was closed) and it registers immediately for use in my account. So, there ya go, proof that there is at least one kind of ATM will do all that, I don’t know about Japan of course. Also… maybe he put it in in smaller amounts (not all at once, but it added up into one deposit?) and THEN it displayed the error?
Comment by Kilgore Trout
April 24th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
It is really cool how he camped out with that cot and how he got his money back. A Chinese guy too, wow man. I wonder if there is a follow up to this story. I would really like to see him and his family together later on. Kind of like a new reality series. He comes home with groceries or something and maybe a gift for his wife.
Comment by Tard
April 25th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Greedy? I’m sorry but a 1000 takes me at least 2 months of work to make at a part time job. That’s 2 months of working for nothing.
Comment by ...
April 25th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
wow. congrats, it sure feels good to rush to correct someone over a small mistake and then precede to make a big fuss over it in order to make yourself feel good, doesnt it? jesus, thank god you are here to keep us from getting out of control.
Comment by Eboni
April 26th, 2009 at 11:11 am
Heck yeah! That’s the way! Of course I wouldn’t dare camp out like that nor would I use the ATM to deposit the money. But I applaud him for sitting out there anyway.
Comment by fukknagers
April 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pm
This thread is full of so much win. Trolls trolling trolls trolling trolls.
Comment by Chloe
April 28th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
Psh, I’d have done the same thing as that guy!
Comment by dumbu
May 7th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
10 kids – he say unless (you) not the China guy ….
Look carefully before you write (not speak)
Comment by iHateFirsters
May 12th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
First of the morons you mean?….your far from first…….you fail….ranked last.
Comment by Jeff
May 24th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
thats not greed, the same exact thing happened to me about 4 months ago, except on a saturday, so i had to just hope that sunday went on without a problem and monday called the bank to tell them about it, thankfully i had a receipt. but let me tell you, if it hadnt given me a receipt i mightve camped out too
1000 dollars is a lot of money, and i take it you either dont work or were left with enough money so that you dont really have to fend for yourself, but for people like him and me, 1000 dollars really isnt something we can just overlook. especially in this financial climate
Comment by Taylor
July 2nd, 2009 at 3:18 am
lol, im hoping this is meant to be satirical
Comment by Martin Lewis
July 7th, 2009 at 10:17 pm
Brilliant!
Comment by i'll kill greg
July 12th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
take your bait and shove it up your ass you racist fuck. If someone takes 1,000 dollars from you, are you going to go home and forget it?
Comment by Camo Pants
July 24th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
I wanna know where he got those blue Camo Pants, or were those just shopped?
Comment by Randy
October 4th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
With 32 trips to Shenzhen China, I can tell you that the average person makes about $7,000 per year. I'd camp out too.