Oh dear™ oh dear™oh dear™

[Sysman]

and so it begins... a real life run on a bank (building society) not seen one of those since BCCI

It was either then or when Kuwait was invaded, that none of the cash machines were paying out one Sunday.

No one connected the events at the time, but apparently the banks couldn't work out which cards to block, so temporarily blocked the lot to be on the safe side.

[DBA_bloke]

Boomed, house prices on the way up!

It's funny, until YOUR bank, your Lender, or your Client's bank, etc. buys the farm.

[Troll]

if everyone (or lots of people) go to draw out the money they will be in serious trouble and back cap in hand to the BoE for more money.

it will get really interesting if NR closes its doors to prevent further withdrawls...

[Sysman]

it will get really interesting if NR closes its doors to prevent further withdrawls...

Tuppence, tuppence, tuppence a bag.

[Lucy]

oh dear™

[DBA_bloke]

Who'll buy my matches?

The customers, to burn down the NR branches!

[gingerjedi]

True story:

I have a 'mate' who was going to buy my flat back in 1999 but I got a better offer so I did what any businessman would do and took it, to this day he is always going on about the time when I 'gazumped' him. On Tuesday morning I get a phone call from the same 'mate’ who now works for Lloyds TSB in the city, he says "Northern Rock is a rather compelling case... look into it".

I’m glad I didn't act on his advice, the fecker could have ruined me… now he either got it spectacularly wrong or that’s one hell of a grudge he holds.

[RightLaugh]

news back from the ground from reporter the 'father in-law'. After 1.5hrs of queing they've got their money. An elderly lady in front of them tried to take all her money out from her account but they said the limit was 100K.
Does she need a toy boy?
Every transaction now needs an ok from head office with all documents being faxed. This limit may go down by the afternoon. They could make a decision to close the doors either later today or tomorrow.

[Troll]

Can they legally impose a limit on you withdrawing your cash?

[Pickle2]

it will get really interesting if NR closes its doors to prevent further withdrawls...

They allready have in the Virtual world.

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