Leggit!
Posted on | May 22, 2009 | 38 Comments
I have to say fair play to the New Zealand couple who have done a legger after a bank put $10m in their account.
They asked for a $10,000 overdraft to help their struggling business but some daft twat forgot a decimal point, added a few zeroes and gave them a fortune.
They transferred as much as they could to offshore accounts and took off. Interpol are on the case.
I’d be very tempted to do exactly the same, although quite how I’d smuggle Bastardface and Throatripper out of the country I just don’t know. I think I’d give it a good try though. If Bank of Ireland or AIB stuck €10m in my account by mistake, perhaps thinking I was some kind of property developer or parish priest in whose account such moneys can rest, I’d have no qualms about taking as much of that money as I could.
It’s all to do with scale, isn’t it? If I saw someone drop €100 I’d give it back to them but if it was a bank and it was a lot of money my immediate thought is ‘tough shit’.
I doubt I’m alone in this either. I bet you’d at least try and abscond, wouldn’t you?
Yeah, I knew you would.
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May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:16 am
If I saw someone drop €100 I’d give it back to them
Really ?
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:19 am
I like this one
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/22/toddler-buys-digger-internet
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:19 am
im not sure i would… seriously. it would be nice to be stinking rich, but im pretty lazy and i dont fancy living my life on the run. id probably just give it all to charity or something
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:28 am
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/0522/breaking28.htm
cunts
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:31 am
just have to deal with them illegally then…
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:32 am
Yeah, I’d give back the money (unless I knew the person who dropped it was a cunt).
That link might be better on the last post, maggot – discussion can continue there.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:33 am
bully to him!
its victim less crime! anyone who would not do the same is a tit
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:39 am
your mums a tit
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:39 am
sorry…
May 22nd, 2009 @ 10:50 am
its victim less crime!
I wouldn’t be too happy if I was one of the other Kiwis with money in that bank.
Would I leg it ? As soon as I could get a passport.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:01 am
I wouldnt … there under interpols watchful eye and will soon be caught.
Youd have to do some serious shrewd thinking in a very short amount of time to get toegtehr a plan so you wouldnt get caught.
youd need major help from underworld figures to
(a) Keep the money undectede and within reach
(b) Keep yourself from being caught
Its as if you would have to be re-born .. new identity and never going back to any family members.
Actually I suspect they will give themselves up in a matter of weeks … you heard it here first
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:10 am
I don’t know, I would definitely want to take the money on principle as AIB are a shower of fuckhole engineers, but a life of dodging the the hated interpol, would it be worth it?
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Pfffft FG – For 10% the Church would hide them.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:11 am
The thing is apparently they will be prosecuted
with the full force of the law bla bla bla if and when they are caught. But banks often make ´´mistakes´´ in their own favour, remember the AIB overcharging a few years ago? Was any AIB employee charged over that? Maybe they were, but I doubt it.
How many more mistakes in the banks´ favour are going on undetected around the world right now.
In summary, I´d leg it too :-)
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:11 am
Interpol are nothing but a bunch of Clouseau-esque slackers who wear brown leather coats.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:13 am
only need a few weeks to hide the money. even if they get caught, will do a few years then disappear, recover loot and live happily ever after. definitely would if happened to me.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:16 am
I’m with Major, fucking Interpol couldn’t find a gowl on a Harney. Off I’d go to a south american country and then cross the border illegally into another. I would live quite comfortably on 10m, hosting parties for Nazi War criminals and disgraced priests.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:20 am
Off I’d go to a south american country and then cross the border illegally into another. I would live quite comfortably on 10m, hosting parties for Nazi War criminals and disgraced priests.
Stay away from Bolivia,the cops shoot people in their beds over there..they could easily relieve you of your cash and make up some assasination plot bullshit..
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:22 am
How exactly did they abscond with 10 million?
Did they walk into their local branch and say “I’d like to make a substantial withdrawal please”?
Or did they clear out every ATM in the North Island of New Zealand on the way to the airport?
If they transferred the cash electronically, won’t there be a paper trail?
And if they’re carrying that amount of cash around with them, Interpol is the least of their worries – especially if they’re being forced to deal with shady types to evade the law.
The more I think about it, the more it sounds like the plot of the next Coen brothers film.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:30 am
“Interpol are nothing but a bunch of Clouseau-esque slackers who wear brown leather coats”
So what you are saying is that it would be a wild comical romp in which I would keep the money, get the girl, and maybe even learn something about myself?
May 22nd, 2009 @ 11:38 am
If a 3 year old girl with no money can hide from them should be easy enough for a couple with millions.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 12:06 pm
I would need a very large sweetener to help hide a couple of Kiwis.
Unsufferably annoying bastards.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
interpol has come a long long way since the dawn of all this information technology …
everyone leaves an electronic trace these days and it can very easily be picked up …
They dont stand a chance …unless they actually plotted this from the start ..
Of course a bank is gonna say an error was made rather than admit that no security was in place and scare ever other fucker doing business with them.
If they plotted this then definetely they have a chance ..if this is some oppurtunistic rush of blood then there fucked.
As I say id wager the major $1000 dollars that they will give themselves up within weeks
May 22nd, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
I’ve got a “Bank error in your favour” Monopoly card in my wallet for just such an occassion.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 12:48 pm
I wonder if the bank would negotiate a deal – no charges, bank or criminal, etc if they return most of the money – say 90% ?
May 22nd, 2009 @ 1:30 pm
i reckon they’ll be caught soon enough too.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
Of course god help that poor man richard kimble .. every thursday night id watch him go into a town and then by the end of the hour hed have to move on the poor crater …
Maybe the “one armed man defence”" might not be the best one for them in this case
May 22nd, 2009 @ 2:42 pm
‘If they transferred the cash electronically, won’t there be a paper trail?’
Heh! (geekily)
May 22nd, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
Lets see 10 million in my bank account I see two very real choices
1. Fuck the hell off with every penny and send a very nice thank you card to the bank. If I had a dog and couldn’t take him guess what new dogs
2. take the money call the bank inform them of their loss from a secure location probably the local and negotiate an very legally binding and equitable reward for “returning” the money.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 3:03 pm
When your millions come in Tweny, I’ll look after the little pooch and putty-tat for a very reasonable pet-sitting fee and an open slate in Ron’s. Oh, and the granny flat in the east wing, obviously.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 3:10 pm
dont forget about the yacht..
May 22nd, 2009 @ 3:34 pm
oh yes,
and the fuck off dinghy thing you have in the Marina…
May 22nd, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
They can witdrawer cash from a number of banks until they have it all stashed in a big steamer trunk and take out what they need when they need it. Then one day one of them gets fed up with the other and puts a bullet in her head. Unless she puts a drop of poison in his nightcap first. Until that day they will be joined at the hip, never parting from one another for fear that if he or she steps out for a pint the other would step out with the steamer trunk. Love leaves and greed and suspicion comes in. It’s not jail that is foremost on their minds, killing off the other is. Why settle for five million when you can have ten and you cut your chances of getting caught by half. The survivor can make a nice donation to the Democrat party in the US of A, move to Chicago and live happily ever after, no questions asked. The accent? Tell the neighbors that you’re from England. They’ll never know the difference.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
Well, it really is the bank’s problem. They fecked up by giving them 100,000% what they needed, and they should pay the price.
May 23rd, 2009 @ 1:18 am
I’d leg it. No question. Bank’s money. It’s all insured anyway. I don’t think it’s a criminal offence either. I’m pretty sure it’s just a civil offence and all the courts can do is order you to pay the money back. Although, technically you would have to declare it as income (because they took it from the company account) and that means taking on the Revenue boys.
May 23rd, 2009 @ 6:40 pm
pedro said:
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
” … im not sure i would… seriously. it would be nice to be stinking rich, but im pretty lazy and i dont fancy living my life on the run. id probably just give it all to charity or something”
I’d give it all to charity, too – and you know where that begins.
May 25th, 2009 @ 4:19 pm
Ha – they were rumbled by a stupid relative’s Facebook update.
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/25/kiwis-who-took-the-m.html
Someone’s not getting a Christmas card this year.
May 25th, 2009 @ 4:33 pm
heh, stupid cunt.