Showing posts with label money. Show all posts
Showing posts with label money. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Robbers steal bag of pizza dough instead of money


New York - Police in New York City say thieves held up the owners of a pizzeria and then fled with a bag of full dough - the kind that crusts are made of. Police say Salvatore LaRosa was charged with robbery after surrendering to police. LaRosa and an accomplice followed the owners of Brothers Pizzeria on Staten Island. After donning masks they pointed guns and demanded the men turn over a bag they believed held the day’s proceeds....More

Sunday, September 13, 2009

With a Click of a mouse sends money to wrong person


UK - Claire Logie has a cartoon on her desk which says “stop and think” - a painful reminder of the day when she failed to do exactly that. She had been meaning to transfer money into her savings account. But, after clicking the wrong box, she accidentally sent the cash to someone she had paid years ago, and whose details had been saved on her account. “As soon as I’d done it I felt sick and very upset,” she said, but assumed she would eventually get the cash back. But six months later she has still not received a refund...More