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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsAn ATM dispensed cash and notes for help from a man trapped inside
But not in Florida.
An ATM dispensed cash and notes for help from a man trapped inside
By Alex Horton July 13 at 12:35 PM
A police officer driving near the waterfront in Corpus Christi, Tex., Wednesday afternoon was waved down and given an unusual tip: an ATM was dispensing handwritten notes scribbled with an existential appeal please help.
It had to be a joke, the responding officers believed. A Bank of America ATM spitting emergency notes with cash and receipts sounded like an absurdly constructed plot of a gotcha live television show. Then the machine starting talking.
Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine, Corpus Christi police officer Richard Olden told the local Fox affiliate.
An officer kicked down the door to reveal the author of the notes. A man, hidden behind the machine, was locked in the service room that housed the ATM. He began scribbling notes to the outside world in an analog version of The Wizard of Oz bellowing from behind a curtain. ... The man was there to repair a door lock, which got the better of him, Corpus Christi police spokesman Lt. Chris Hooper told The Washington Post. The contractor, whose name and company were not released, had left his phone and a device needed to open the door from the inside.
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Alex Horton is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post and a former Army infantryman. Follow @AlexHortonTX
By Alex Horton July 13 at 12:35 PM
A police officer driving near the waterfront in Corpus Christi, Tex., Wednesday afternoon was waved down and given an unusual tip: an ATM was dispensing handwritten notes scribbled with an existential appeal please help.
It had to be a joke, the responding officers believed. A Bank of America ATM spitting emergency notes with cash and receipts sounded like an absurdly constructed plot of a gotcha live television show. Then the machine starting talking.
Sure enough, we can hear a little voice coming from the machine, Corpus Christi police officer Richard Olden told the local Fox affiliate.
An officer kicked down the door to reveal the author of the notes. A man, hidden behind the machine, was locked in the service room that housed the ATM. He began scribbling notes to the outside world in an analog version of The Wizard of Oz bellowing from behind a curtain. ... The man was there to repair a door lock, which got the better of him, Corpus Christi police spokesman Lt. Chris Hooper told The Washington Post. The contractor, whose name and company were not released, had left his phone and a device needed to open the door from the inside.
....
Alex Horton is a general assignment reporter for The Washington Post and a former Army infantryman. Follow @AlexHortonTX
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An ATM dispensed cash and notes for help from a man trapped inside (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2017
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DFW
(54,302 posts)1. The article makes things clearer
From the sound of things, I thought the poor guy was trapped inside the ATM itself, which would have made him small enough to be a candidate to play R2D2 in the next round of Star Wars films.
red dog 1
(27,777 posts)2. K&R
Reminds me of the old Candid Camera bit where a voice was coming from inside a small mail box mounted on a pole.
rurallib
(62,387 posts)3. beat that, Florida man!
LeftInTX
(25,139 posts)4. Someone on the WaPo article was commenting about how insanely
hot it must have been in that space.