From: "Robert Comer" 

> You'd think some sort of sanity check would be built into their system to
> prevent transactions of that size.

There is at most banks -- a built in limit usually, $500 daily where I bank.

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
news:op.s651p5z4eipai0{at}dsl40.bgtnvtpl.sover.net...
> 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.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

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