Bem, no meu caso o banco não reclamou. Talvez eles não tenham
apresentado o cheque. :-)
Cardoso wrote:
> lenda urbana. e velha.
>
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 08:25:44 -0300
> "Claudiß" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> C> Olha o que poderia ter acontecido, PSP:
> C>
> C> In March 1992 a man living in Newtown near Boston Massachusetts
> C> received a bill for his as yet unused credit card stating that he owed
> C> $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away.
> C> In April he received another and threw that one away too.
> C> The following month the credit card company sent him a very nasty note
> C> stating they were going to cancel his card if he didn't send them
> $0.00
> C> by return of post.
> C> He called them, talked to them, they said it was a computer
> C> error and told him they'd take care of it.
> C> The following month he decided that it was about time that he
> C> tried out the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were
> C> purchases on his account it would put an end to his ridiculous
> C> predicament.
> C> However, in the first store that he produced his credit card
> C> in payment for his purchases he found that his card had been
> cancelled.
> C> He called the credit card company who apologized for the computer
> error
> C> once again and said that they would take care of it. The next day he
> C> got a bill for $0.00 stating that payment was now overdue. Assuming
> C> that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous
> day the
> C> latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that the
> C> company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out.
> C> The next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10
> C> days to pay his account or the company would have to take steps to
> C> recover the debt.
> C> Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at
> C> their own game and mailed them a check for $0.00. The computer duly
> C> processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he
> C> now owed the credit card company nothing at all.
> C> A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he
> C> was doing writing a check for $0.00.
> C> After a lengthy explanation the bank replied that the $0.00
> C> check had caused their check processing software to fail.
> C> The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their
> C> customers that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the
> C> computer to crash.
> C> The following month the man received a letter from the credit
> C> card company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed
> C> them $0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be
> C> taking steps to recover the debt.
> C> The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer
> C> for her birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
> C>
> C>
> C>
> C>
> C>
> C> On 3/28/06, Paulo Sérgio Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> C> > Eu hoje melhorei muito, mas já fui muito encrenqueiro. Um dia, recebi
> C> > nota de cobrança da Casa José Silva de zero real. Preenchi um
> cheque de
> C> > R$0,00 (zero real e zero centavo) e levei a nota ao caixa.
> Entreguei-a à
> C> > caixa junto com o cheque e pedi o recibo. A mulher me olhou com
> uma cara
> C> > espantada e me disse que eu não tinha que pagar nada. Disse-lhe:
> C> > "Senhorita, recebi a fatura e quero quitá-la. Favor receber o meu
> cheque
> C> > a fazer a autenticação mecânica pois tenho pressa." Ela embarcou
> no meu
> C> > jogo, e carimbou R$ 0,00 no recibo. Durante muitos anos guardei essa
> C> > nota "quitada".
> C> >
> C> > Hoje, num exercício sem nexo, fico imaginando se aquele cheque
> tivesse
> C> > sido apresentado e voltado por falta de fundos. :-) :-)
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