{"id":815,"date":"2006-11-09T10:04:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T15:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=815"},"modified":"2009-06-11T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T22:53:39","slug":"this-is-broken-bank-of-america-jailing-a-customer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/11\/09\/this-is-broken-bank-of-america-jailing-a-customer\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Broken &#8211; Bank of America jailing a customer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisisbroken.com\/b\/2006\/11\/bank_of_america.html\">This Is Broken &#8211; Bank of America jailing a customer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy crap:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Matthew Shinnick dropped by a Bank of America branch in San Francisco to make sure a check he was about to deposit wasn&#8217;t fraudulent. The teller found that the check was fraudulent and told the manager, who then had Shinnick thrown in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Are you getting this right? The customer who wanted to make sure he wasn&#8217;t about to draw on a fraudulent check, got thrown in jail by Bank of America.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Follow the link to get the full story, and if you have a BOA account &#8211; close it now. This sort of behavior is simply unacceptable!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Matthew Shinnick dropped by a Bank of America branch in San Francisco to make sure a check he was about to deposit wasn\u2019t fraudulent. The teller found that the check was fraudulent and told the manager, who then had Shinnick thrown in jail.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-opinion","category-society","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-d9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":494,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/11\/goodbye-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":815,"position":0},"title":"Goodbye, America","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 11, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Goodbye, America - Hello, REAL ID. 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