Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
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rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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Someone I knewwent on holiday, leaving his 16 year old daughter in charge of his flat, his worldly goods and his bank card. With PIN. With instructions to use it 'only in emergencies'.
It seems that fags, beer, drugs and takeaways are 'emergencies'. Father returned to find his bank account £1,100 lighter, and had the daughter arrested.
When he admitted to the police that he had given her both the card and number, they laughed him out of the place and released her without charge. It was two years before she spoke to him again and that was at a funeral.
Another time, he was getting divorced, and went to the bank with the intention of sneakily emptying the joint account and opening a new one.
However, he cleverly he told the clerk about the divorce first, so she was duty-bound to freeze the joint account on the spot.
As he was a teacher and had just received 2 months' wages for the summer, he was royally scuppered. The only way to get the account unfrozen was to ask his estranged wife to agree to release the money.
So, no joy there then.
He is in prison now (on a particularly sleazy underage sex rap) and I bet he still feels hard done to.
Money fuck-up? Fucking LIFE fucking fuck-up. The fuck.
(, Tue 28 Nov 2006, 17:52, Reply)
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