So your contention is the guy had no idea he was being over paid by $2700? If there is no expectation for the guy to speak up when being over paid by $2700, then he would have no business speaking up if he was underpaid the same. There is an old adage - "what's good for the goose is good for the gander". How do you know the bank didn't politely ask for their money back before calling the cops?
Here's a weird one for you. I had something like this happen to me years
ago, on a much smaller scale.
This was about 1985 or so, and I pulled into a convenience store/gas
station to put $15 into the tank of my 1969 Ford 1/2-ton. I give the clerk
a $20 bill, and she gives me back $35 change.
I slide $30 back to her and tell her that she gave me too much change.
She takes offence, argues with me, and her husband comes out'a the
back with a broom, and it gets really ugly at that point. Now I'm sure
that a language barrier played into the situation, but I was told to get out
and never come back....& I left with the $35 in change from my $20
bill, & the $15 bucks in fuel already in my tank.
That convenience store/gas station is long gone & is now a Taco-Time
I believe, & I'm not surprised, but that's a different story. ;-)
Do we know that dude didn't try to correct his mistake at the wicket?
Who keeps their pay from a paycheque in an envelop anyway? That's
a recipe for losing it, like the guy claims, though like the bank I too have
an issue believing it.
The bank should have just writen this one off and kept it quiet, as it is
going to be just horrible PR no matter how this plays out in the end.
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