From: Ellen K. 

My debit card doesn't let me do more than $1000 in a given day.

And if I do a transaction that appears "large" (I guess compared
to my usual grocery-store and gas-station charges) I get a call from the
bank.

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 03:26:19 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"
 wrote in message
:

>Man Is Charged $4,300 for Four Burgers
>Mar 28 7:15 AM US/Eastern
>PALMDALE, Calif.
>
>Four burgers at his neighborhood Burger King cost George Beane a whopping
>$4,334.33.
>
>Beane ordered two Whopper Jr.s and two Rodeo cheeseburgers when he pulled
>up to the drive-through window last Tuesday. The cashier, however, forgot
>that she'd entered the $4.33 charge on his debit card and punched in the
>numbers again without erasing the original ones _ thus creating a
>four-figure bill.
>
>. . .
>
>http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/03/28/D8GKII500.html
>
>* * * * *
>
>You'd think some sort of sanity check would be built into their system to
>prevent transactions of that size.

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