I’m always on the lookout for nifty ways to clear your debt. If you should think this is a good way, you’ll need to sharpen it up a little! I found this story as Runner up number 6 on the Top 10 Dumbest Criminals. Personally, I thought he deserved a little more recognition, he should have been way up the charts. Nice try though!

San Francisco: A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the branch and wrote “this iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag.” While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller window. So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to Wells Fargo. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he was not the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. Looking somewhat defeated, the man said “OK” and left. The Wells Fargo teller then called the police who arrested the man a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.

…And the moral of this story is - if you always use the right forms, conform to other people’s protocols and do what you’re told, you’ll take a lifetime to get out of debt!

This story appears in The Carnival of Money Stories at PiggyBankBlues