No thumbprint, no money, bank tells armless man

[gunslingingbird]

MIAMI (Reuters) – A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint.

"They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, 'Well, obviously you can't give us a thumbprint'," Steve Valdez told CNN on Wednesday.

But he said the Bank of America Corp branch in downtown Tampa, Florida, still insisted on a thumbprint identification for him to cash a check drawn on his wife's account at the bank, even though he showed them two photo IDs.

Wow. This is way more fucked up than something even I could do to someone. And that's saying something right there.

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[Will E Worm]

Why do they need a thumb print?

I'm not doing that ever. :nono:

 

[Friday on my mind]

It's one of those you don't have an account here so we will try to make you jump through hoops to cash the check.They really want you to open an account lol.

 

[Baill Inneraora]

Why do they need a thumb print?

I'm not doing that ever. :nono:

Then you are not cashing check in a bank where you do not have an account.

 

[Will E Worm]

Then you are not cashing check in a bank where you do not have an account.

There are other places to cash checks.

I don't have a bank account.