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Old 11-27-2007, 10:01 AM
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A melee at a Kmart store in Wauwatosa Saturday morning was started by a computer glitch.

The store was running a promotion in which it would give away $10 to anyone applying for its credit card, but the computer glitch led to everyone's application being granted -- bestowing up to $4,000 in instant credit to anyone who applied even if they shouldn't have qualified.

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Once word started to spread about the so-called "free money" Saturday, witnesses said things got pretty nuts inside the Wauwatosa store.

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Two employees confirmed for police that anyone who applied was being given instant credit -- from $850 up to $4,000. They also told police that people started calling other people to the store for so-called free money. The store ran out of credit applications.

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But there is hope! Check out this entrepreneur:

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One witness told police someone went to another Kmart, got some applications there and was selling them in the Wauwatosa Kmart parking lot for $20 apiece.

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http://www.wisn.com/news/14697601/detail.html
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Old 11-27-2007, 10:15 AM
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Credit cards are free money.. What the problem is?
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Old 11-27-2007, 06:02 PM
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Default Re: And we wonder why poor people have lots of debt...

Anybody click the link for the video report?

"There was just a whole trampede of people..."
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Old 11-27-2007, 07:36 PM
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The stupidity of the masses can blow the mind sometimes.
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Old 11-27-2007, 08:17 PM
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I dont get it. People thought they didnt have to pay back the money?
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Old 11-27-2007, 08:56 PM
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hra,

credit card = free money.


i guess this is true if you already have creditors busting down your door and your credit score is 300.
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Old 11-28-2007, 12:50 AM
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if your credit is so bad that you can't get approved for an 850 dollar credit limit then it pretty much is free money.
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Old 11-29-2007, 01:51 PM
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Default Re: And we wonder why poor people have lots of debt...

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the computer glitch led to everyone's application being granted

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Yeah, "computer glitch". Not the case at all.

12 year old kids and dead dogs can get $850 in credit. This was planned.
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Old 11-29-2007, 01:53 PM
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EDIT: Sorry, double post.
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Old 11-29-2007, 03:54 PM
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GG America..GG
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