We’re in full Christmas period skeleton mode here in the editorial department of PEDESTRIAN.TV, which means I’m wearing tie-dye short shorts, a sleeveless Sonic the Hedgehog t-shirt, and I get to write this red hot Florida Man story. There’s not a damned thing anyone in corporate HQ can do about it, baby!!!!
An absolute loose unit in Florida has been nabbed by the fuzz after he punched the living shit out of an ATM because, as he tells it, it gave him “too much money.”
23-year-old Florida Man Michael Joseph Olekisk was arrested on Friday and charged with criminal mischief, following an incident that occurred on November 29th.
Wells Fargo bank officials in Cocoa, Florida insisted police press charges on Olekisk, after surveillance footage reportedly showed him “pummelling” the machine’s touch screen.
Olekisk then reportedly called Wells Fargo and apologised for the damage he caused to the machine, stating he was “angry the ATM was giving him too much money and he did not know what to do.”
Frankly, we can think of a few things we’d probably do in that situation, and “beat the living piss out of the machine” isn’t exactly in the top five.
Seldom has an ATM ever given us more than the right amount, let alone an amount so outrageously large that violence was the only solution.
I’ve heard of fighting withdrawal fees before but this is ridiculous.
