Pink mist

Ok, internets, my financial fraud case is underway. And by the way, if you are thinking of switching banks, switch to BECU. Dang if these folks don’t come through for their customers every time. Yessir, they put my stolen dough back in my account. I spoke to one of their deputies today as he was saddling up to ride out to catch the varmints. More on that later. ANYONE living in Washington state can put their money in this credit union. I sure would recommend BECU. I suppose even state workers could too, though they have the WSECU.

I checked up on some statistics and found that there are about 6,600,000 folks living in Wa. State. About 112,000 of them work for the state. That’s FTE (Full Time Equivalent) so, if say, two people were working part time, that would be 1 FTE. In the case of Seattle City Light it would take about 5 folks to come up to 1 FTE. Usually there’s absolutely no traffic on President’s Day, and I always figured it was because every other person here worked for the state. That’s not true. I’m still trying to figure that one out.

Anyhow, internets, those guys at BECU are hot on the trail of the perpetrators. Seems they got my card number and made their own little card, complete with that magnetic strip and everything. You don’t need a PIN number if you use it for a credit card so when you go to Fred Meyer and buy a big flat screen TV you just schlep the thing to the checkout stand, give the card a swipe (great description for this action by the way) and the brainless, witless cashier smiles toothlessly back and says “Have a nithe day”. You walk out to your 74 Olds Cutlass, strap that baby on top and drive away to your Federal Way casa. Ouala! I just bought the mofo a new TV!

The BECU detective didn’t tip his hand but it sounded like they were reviewing videos and may just have these little rodents in the crosshairs. God I’d love to squeeze the trigger and see that pink mist explode behind their head before they go down.