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A TEXAS MAN who became trapped inside an ATM slipped notes to customers via the receipt slot pleading for them to help him escape, police said yesterday.
The contractor became stuck on Wednesday when he was changing a lock to a Bank of America room that leads to the back of the ATM, Corpus Christi police Lt. Chris Hooper said.
He couldn’t let himself out of the room because he didn’t have a keycard on him and was unable to notify bank employees for help.
“Apparently he left his cellphone and the swipe card he needed to get out of the room outside in his truck,” Hooper said.
When he realised customers were retrieving cash from the machine, he passed notes to them through the ATM receipt slot.
One read, “Please help. I’m stuck in here and I don’t have my phone. Please call my boss …”
Some customers appeared to dismiss the notes as a gag, Hooper said.
But one called police, who detected a faint voice coming from inside the ATM. An officer kicked in the door to the room and freed the man, whose name has not been released.
“Everyone is ok, but you will never see this in your life, that somebody was stuck in the ATM. It was just crazy,” Richard Olden, a police senior officer, told KRIS-TV.
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So disappointed with Phil. All talk etc. No pay parity. No parity on working hours. I’m hoping she’ll be very disappointed with the voting.
@Catherine Gaffney: 55cc’s of brown envelope’s stat
Nothing we marched or went on strike for, is being addressed or rectified. An entire profession being sold out. Mighty nurses indeed.
From what I hear from the nurses I know they are far from impressed with the deal.
@James O’Donovan: I know that student nurses weren’t even asked their opinion, while the Inmo seem to be on a solo run completely at odds with actual nurses demands over conditions.
They might get a suprise from their members .its a bad deal.I think phil is liam Doran in suprise.all her talk @ the start was just a load of waffle
@matthew o reilly: maybe nurses should start another union? Nurses I know want more staff on the wards more than an extra fiver.
What about the facts that they are more and more self serving and patients are getting less and less care while they are getting more money?
@Viola Bingham: what” facts” would they be Viola?
It’s a case of one step forward and two steps backwards for nurses, a poor deal full of conditions, many unacceptable.
The nurses will decide, not phil nor the labour courts nor the politicians. And strike again if ye have to. This gov is a disgrace anyway.
What deal did the Nurses get for the people who have to use their departments? I heard a lot about concern for patients during the strike but I see none of it in this deal.
Another sellout by INMO executive.
Nothing has changed. Doran used to waffle for weeks about conditions, the real problem, and threaten strike action,the govt then throw a few bob their way and suddenly a deal is struck. Highest waiting lists ever in Limerick at present and was in A&E in a Dublin hospital this week and it was like a scene from MASH. Phil and Co should step down. I know it’s in their interest to continue to let patients suffer in these conditions as it justifies their existence, IR turbulence, but the nurses should rebel against this shower for selling them out again. Conditions will never improve with this crowd supposedly leading the drive for change.
Now now everyone calm down…
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