Man, that totally sucks. Hope your bank does you a decent and gives you at least some of it back. Seriously. Do they do things like that?

this is just to say

I have stolen
the dollars
that were in
your account

and which
you were probably
saving
for surgery or to give to starving children or something

You have my sympathy, I've had a similar thing happen, I hope you can get something back out of the bank.

a william carlos williams parody in this context makes little sense to me.

Skot--
Truly sympathetic on the bank account thing. I think scumfucks who do that should be hung upside down, orally raped by Asian elephants and then forced to watch Barbara Bush's home-made porn. This is all before being dismembered and fed to starving goats, of course.
I hope you find the fuckers.

Joe

Assholes, man. That fucking sucks. I send you all the comfort I got.

Hey Skot --

Presuming that the transactions that fucknut performed using your card number were not atm withdrawals but debit card purchases, the bank is obligated to give you your money back promptly. if they resist tell them you want to charge back all the fraud transactions. but you probably know this already...

No! So sorry. I thought this happened to me once but I was wrong--you know all the numbers to call? Make sure to call the credit reporting bureau to stop any accounts from being opened in your name.

I hope it gets straightened out soon...It's awful!

Man that sucks.

Next time I make it out to Seattle, I'll look you up and bye you a scotch.

That always makes me feel better.

Skot,

Perhaps those of us who constitute your tens of readers can send you some $$ to help out?

Thanks for all the words of sympathy, folks. I've been talking to my bank--oh, and how I'll be talking to them--and I anticipate that this will all be worked out. Despite my tone (I was pretty hot), it seems that I'll get my cash back. To be honest, since it was the end of the month, the bastard didn't have all that much to work with in the first place, and I get paid tomorrow anyway. But thanks again.

We now return to our regularly scheduled generic misanthropy.

Somehow, hippies are to blame for this. I sincerely hope they get anally violated by a gang of PCP-addled nazi skinheads. (It worries me sometimes how often I wish this on people.)

Fear of such an event is why I advocate living well beyond your means and keeping that bank account hovering just ever so slightly above zero...that way, there's not much to steal!

So sorry to hear about it though...and hoping it all gets fixed real soon.

Uh.. this just happened to Tom Tomorrow

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_04_18.html#001481

and

http://www.thismodernworld.com/weblog/mtarchives/week_2004_04_18.html#001482

Auugh! Awful. I hope you get it straightened out.

Those Nigerian scammers are getting more sophisticated, aren't they? The bastards!