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Apparently this was in Detroit in 2020. A similar thing happened a few years earlier in West Seattle. Black guy went into a Wa. Mutual to deposit a check and the bank people thought it "didn't look right" so they called the cops and charged him with check fraud. During the week or so he spent in jail, he lost his job, got evicted from his apartment, and gf broke up with him. He sued the bank and it took a couple years but he won.
Wow, the gf is a massive bitch for leaving him during this absolute shit show
Maybe their relationship wasn't on a firm foundation if that broke them up.
Evaluating a person based on a single fact about them is the kind of keen, thorough, analytical thinking that gives me faith in democracy!
Chat, is this shitpost real?
Apparently it is: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51234141
The bank clerk herself was a black woman, and the man is an Air Force veteran… The onion couldn’t make this shit up
Sauntore Thomas when the bank called the cops:
From the article:
But when he tried to open a savings account for the money at the Livonia branch, staff said they would need to verify the cheques. The assistant bank manager - herself a black woman - went to a backroom, before returning and telling Mr Thomas their team member who verifies cheques was not there. She allegedly asked him how he got the money.
Ten minutes later - after Mr Thomas said he would wait in the lobby for the staff member to return - four police officers arrived.
I'm taking bets the asst. bank manager was told she had to ask by someone else behind the scenes. Then that someone called the cops.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though? How would they know if the check is legit or not? They should have deposited it and waited to see if the funds came in.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though?
Enforce hierarchy
A small tidbit :
Police began an investigation into Mr Thomas for fraud during the incident, but have since closed the case.
So non only the police didn't need to be involved but they also tried to find fraud charges instead of helping the victim of racism...
Reality is often loonier than fiction.
Republicans hate this infinite money glitch.
ThErE iS nO rAcIsM iN aMeRiCa
nOonE sAyS ThAt
Let me introduce you to the majority of my conservative coworkers.
I thought the conservative stance was that there's no systemic racism. Your co-workers actually think all racism is solved, in the US of all places?? Sheesh
So much so that I have one white coworker who openly uses the n-word because it's "not racist anymore".
I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism.
I mean, there's no limit to how stupid people can be. But I think a lot of conservatives like to say that the racism of the past doesn't matter anymore. That a family that was enslaved 160 years ago (just beyond living memory now, but potentially someone's great-great-grandparent), and then subject to Jim Crow and other cruelties through... generously the 1960s but realistically the 1980s, that family has no long lasting effects.
But really it's important to remember that conservatives just say things. They don't care about facts or truth. They care about power, and their emotions. So even if you proved that racism was systemic and had measurable effects (eg: The Color of Law), it won't matter. They don't care about facts. They care about feelings.
This is funny because many conservatives say things like "facts don't care about your feelings", but it's well known that conservatives project more than movie theaters.
Dawg, I think you may be overestimating many conservatives. Most of them don't draw a line between personal racism and systemic racism, and many of them think racism was "solved" when Obama was elected president.
....a lot of people say that.
lucky you for not being surrounded by fucking idiots, i guess tho?
Unfortunately, I had a middle aged white dude make that argument to me while I was a bartender. This was a little before the pandemic, in one of the least diverse states in the U.S. (population is ~90% white people). He said that in his entire life, he had never witnessed or experienced anyone be racist to anyone else, ever, and the only reason why people think it's an issue is because the news is overly sensational and tries to divide us. I tried to tell him his experiences are not universal and cannot be taken as representative of the experiences of a person of color, but he was not having it. Since I was about half his age at the time, he said I didn't have enough life experience to know that. This is despite the fact that I have several friends with first hand experience with racism in the same state he lived. They've been called slurs, followed around in stores, harassed by police and school administrations in public school, been told to go back to their own country (even though this is their own country, and the person telling them this is not indigenous), and numerous other examples.
It was a frustrating conversation that didn't go anywhere. It's especially disheartening that he at least recognized that the news tries to divide us, but then started repeating Fox News taking points when I tried sharing some of the things my friends have been through.
I remember once on a forum a big cis het guy was saying that he's never seen cat calling on the street. Never him, and never at any of his friends. Someone pointed out that since he's a big dude, he's probably not going to be catcalled, and other shitty dudes are likely not going to bother people near him because of patriarchy.
To everyone's surprise, he came back and was like "ok that makes sense. And I asked my women friends and they told me a lot of stories"
Rare to see someone change their mind like that.
That is the closest to reparations that a black person will ever get in the US.
Why do they apparently still use cheques in 2026?
Because metal briefcases stuffed with unmarked bills is too cliche.
They are also very heavy.
$1000000 in $100 is 22 lbs.
The logistics alone make most heist movies improbable.
1,000,000
This story is ancient. I remember seeing it circulate in the early 2010s.
They may not be the most common method of payment, but they are regularly used.
In this case, it would actually be beneficiary to use checks because they can do it via cashier check to guarantee that it's going to deposit and also it makes the paper trail to help protect against the I wasn't paid or this person never got the money claim.
Not that I don't believe that checks are not ancient outdated technology as well, but I do agree there are some rare occasions where it makes more sense to use a check versus having to deal with a wire transfer or paying in physical denomination.
Checks are nice when you don't want acquiesce to the anti-privacy account making nonsense or pay the "convenience" fee some companies pull on their websites. With the added bonus of in order to get their money they need to take extra steps and have a real person process the payment because the company dicked around. Checks are awesome.
My mom still writes checks for all her bills, then the shut-off notices and the checks cross in the mail, and she ends up getting her electricity cut off. I'm trying to get her to use the Internet to pay her bills, but she acts like I'm stupid for suggesting any other way than mailing a check.
They also still use cheques in 2026 though
When life gives you lemons, penalize them.
So is other people's racism like an infinite money glitch?
Yes. Except in my mind it's a monkey's paw deal. You win endless discrimination lawsuits, but you just end up with a bunch of checks no bank will cash.
The secret is that you go to a credit union instead of a bank, and you DEPOSIT it instead of cash it.
They will have ample time to verify the check through official channels, and you can access the money after it has successfully transferred from the payer into the account.
Thats amazing. Hope this guy becomes a millionaire doing this. :)
Man finds infinite money cheat.
Insane work
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Free monies