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- SebHughes, on 08/23/2008, -1/+651. ???????
2. Profit - derekivey, on 08/23/2008, -2/+64Lol: "Harris said she would let state officials know right away if the extra money entered her account because "I don't go to jail for anybody."
- marcus1060, on 08/23/2008, -0/+51Didn't even get the money, it was caught before it ever went through.
How is this news worthy?
"State government payroll department makes mistake and corrects it!" - Disjunto, on 08/23/2008, -1/+38well that was a small article of non-news
- Hellrotm3, on 08/23/2008, -2/+33Why can't these mistakes happen to me?
- DaDrake, on 08/23/2008, -1/+27So what happen if she did cash the check for 850k and it cleared? Could she be liable?
- cl2yp71c, on 08/23/2008, -6/+30Family guy, anyone?
- blitz718, on 08/23/2008, -2/+21When you recieve a check from the government at an amount you aren't supposed to be receiving and cash it, you are, effectively, knowingly stealing from the government. It's stupid i agree, but thats how the law works.
- ps3udov3ctor, on 08/23/2008, -0/+12this stories show up somewhat often. they're ***** stupid. the people never get to keep the money. why do people find this so interesting?? hellrotm3 why would you want that mistake to happen to you? you'd get nothing out of it except the proper amount of money you're owed.
- whatisnotmyname, on 08/23/2008, -0/+11Generally, when one person knows a mistake has been made and the other doesn't/hasn't discovered it yet, the law tends to side against the person who knows they have absolutely no entitlement to the money and is hoping to make over three quarters of a million dollars simply because of a typo caused by a computer glitch, a secretary, whatever.
- blitz718, on 08/23/2008, -1/+11Yes, its considered a sort of fraud i believe
- Cellulose, on 08/24/2008, -0/+9Yes, and they have up to 4 years to catch the mistake. Once they've caught the mistake and send you a notice (i.e. a "bill" asking for the money back), they have another 7 or so years to collect it like any other bill. This I know from first-hand experience when I got overpaid on my final paycheck. Didn't notice it, but came after me for it 3 years and 11 months later.
I don't know where this idea of "its their mistake" somehow making it your money comes from. It's no different than if you write a check for too much money to a company, they are legally obligated to refund you the difference. In that same way, you are legally obligated to return money that you did not earn.
Unless they can prove malicious intent, they can't come after you criminally, only through civil courts. Now, they could try to drum-up a time card fraud charge which can go criminal if the amount is high enough... they they'd only do that if were personal. - JoeBob5606, on 08/23/2008, -0/+7Bury. They caught the mistake before the cash went in her bank account. Whats the point of the article if she never actually get the money?
- Dested, on 08/23/2008, -0/+7This takes you time. A lot of it after looking at your comments. How do you justify spending this much time just trolling on digg? Dont you get bored after a while? I dont understand.
- Rhine23, on 08/23/2008, -0/+4No, you get in trouble http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2007/ ...
- PhilLesh69, on 08/24/2008, -0/+3Sure, you could run off to the CAYMEN islands. But I'm sorry, $850,000 is not enough to go on the lamb for.
You'd be okay never seeing your friends and family ever again for just enough money to live for, maybe, the next 10 to 15 years?
I might consider it for something along the lines of 50, 100 million, maybe even just 20 million, but it would have to set me up for life before I would even think about it. - PhilLesh69, on 08/24/2008, -0/+3Liable for what? Liable for knowing the terms of a contract, and then knowingly accepting the incorrect consideration due to an obvious mistake.
I bet you also think that if you buy a bicycle from some guy on the street for $20, and the cops somehow find out that the bike is stolen, you get to keep it, don't you? - PhilLesh69, on 08/24/2008, -0/+3Well, only if she spent the money.
If the money was deposited directly into her account, as long as she doesn't spend the money or attempt to transfer it out, and makes some effort to notify the payor of the mistake, no harm no foul.
If she just sits on it hoping nobody would notice, then yes, she can be charged criminally. - xDynaBlade, on 08/24/2008, -0/+3This would be an acceptable news story if she had gotten the money, but this is just terrible. Nothing interesting.
- wutimatang, on 08/23/2008, -0/+3Actually the lucky bastard is the one that gets this mistake and no one finds out about it.
- TheJokerV, on 08/24/2008, -1/+4Theoretically, if it took a couple days to catch the mistake, you could deposit the check in your account, then wire the money to an account in the caimens of some other country without a extradition treaty, and then leave the country and go somewhere without an extradition treaty, then it would be ***** amazing.
- mykalimba, on 08/23/2008, -0/+3$850 to $850,000 isn't a regular "misplaced decimal point error". How the hell did that happen?
- lovek, on 08/23/2008, -1/+4buzzkill
- sk11, on 08/23/2008, -1/+4He's probably wanking off to your comment.
- PhilLesh69, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2Yeah, that's always a good knee slapping joke, but it isn't very realistic.
The Social Security Administration manages to ship out tens of millions of checks every two weeks, and the postal service manages to deliver those checks on the 1st and the 15th of every month, without fail.
Government incompetence is a myth or urban legend. Now, there is the reality of a large number of dead-weight incompetents WORKING FOR the government, but that invokes the 2 out of 10 rule, where for every 10 people in an office, only 2 are actually doing any work. Yet those 2 manage to run the whole thing properly and efficiently. The other 8 either don't show up or just sit on their asses. - blueandgreen24, on 08/23/2008, -3/+5explanation plz?
- Hellrotm3, on 08/23/2008, -2/+4It would make for an interesting dinner conversation?
- andrewtheart, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2How is this newsworthy? It has no impact on politics, religion, science, or the world in general. This is local news material really, don't know why this ended up on Digg.
- Agorist, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2The mere fact that government actually corrected one of it's mistakes is newsworthy.
- kilt42, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2it's the government, how does it not happen more often?
- itspuddingtime, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2Bank error in your favor. Collect $850,000
- aerohead80, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2Boss: "Umm, Mr Bolton from accounting is it? Yeah, we need to talk"
MIchael: "I must've put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. *****, I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail." - bdbr, on 08/24/2008, -0/+2The money was never even deposited in her bank. All that happened was the government called and told her about the mistake. How could she be an idiot for doing nothing about nothing?
- pyronik, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1that happened at my company in a compensation package... 65000 sure is better than 6500
- Vektuz, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Wonder if the cancellation was registered with the IRS or if come taxtime there will be a surprise ;d
- cl2yp71c, on 08/24/2008, -1/+2http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Has_a_Shadow
http://www.familyguynow.com/watch.php?id=101
See if that works for you...it didn't for me. - virginian9000, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Someone in payroll is getting fired
- tsitneics, on 08/23/2008, -0/+1Actually, unlucky bastard.
- barfnugget, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Reminds me of this:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/30237 - mattsx, on 08/23/2008, -1/+2fail.
- solid12345, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1But still a Sooner Goober at heart...
- robwhite1979, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1yeah, ppl ***** up. what's the point here?
- robwhite1979, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1...umm, did i miss the point?? why is this 1st page?
- rdoger6424, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Incompetence in Digg Comment maintains the Status Que (sic) of this user Submitting and Commenting.
- kelmaster1, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1No way she could keep it. They would "require" her to give it back if she did cash it. Otherwise something that big wouldn't go through.
- Risingashes, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Over here in other countries we limit to 2 decimal places for money.
- inactive, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1same in Chicago, one of the most corrupt cities in the world.
- solid12345, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1And who says we don't pay our civil servants anything in Oklahoma?
- inactive, on 08/24/2008, -0/+1Story was kinda lame. The payment was cancelled before it even reached her. It would be more interesting if she had received the money, and had started spending it.
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