Here is one for you:

About 12 years ago my wife and I went to Disney World on a vacation. At the time we were providing 24 hour care for her mother, who was in the advanced stages of alzheimer's (not something I would wish on anyone). We had care givers at our house during the day and we took care of her at night. Since we were going on vacation we needed someone to sit with her at night. We hired a nurse assistant that had been highly recommended by the local hospital.

We were in Disney World for about 7 days..staying on the resort in a nice room etc....at the end of the vacation we had just about exhausted all of our cash...pretty normal for my first wife...lol. When we went to check out, my credit card was denied for insufficient funds...as you can imagine the bill was pretty large but since there was only a small balance on my card and the limit was very high, I could not understand why it was being denied.

I called my credit union who had issued the card to see what the problem was. The manager at the credit union told me they had frozen all my accounts because an employee at Penny's that processes catalog orders at night had found a lot of charges on my card and that the goods were being sent to an address which was different than my address that was on file. The manager told me they had been trying to get in touch with me to verify the charges.

I, of coure, informed the manager that I appreciated her having frozen all my accounts as we had made no charges at any Penny's store. Now my immediate problem was getting out of Disney World without having to shovel duck crap from around their ponds to work off a couple of thousand in hotel and room charges...lol The manager opened my account for 10 minutes to allow my Disney World charges to go thru then immediately shut them down again.

What we found out after we got home:

This nurse assistant that had come so highly recommended (and was an active employee at the local hospital) had gotton into our drawers and gotten our account numbers, had gotten a book of our blank checks (which she had already cashed 3 of them totalling a large amount at the drive up window at the Credit Union before they froze our accounts), to top that off, my wife belonged to a professional organization that took it upon themselves without my wife requesting, to send her a credit card in the mail which this nurse assistant activated of course. She had already charged over 8,000 on it at a furniture store and various clothing stores.

The end result here is priceless. We of course got everything straightened out and were not out any monies...although the folks that had sent the unrequested credit card were less than nice...actually down right rude...but they had not seen rude until they met this ol MSG when he was not happy...lol.

We pressed charges against this nurse assistant....I wanted her hung from the nearest tree...or at the least, since she was a pretty young blonde, I wanted her to have a nice long stay at PeeWee Valley and maybe get a chance to visit the Marrying Tree there with some of the dykes that inhabit that fine facility. As it turned out, the prosacuting attorney called me and told me they were cutting a deal with her and only giving her some probation. I also called the local hospital and talked to the administrator and told him what happened and that he had a theif working for him who undoubtably was probably stealing from the patients there. The hospital administrator told me that since they had no problems with her that they would not fire her nor take any adverse actions...so I assume she may still be working there..who knows.

Bottom line here....if the system is not going to do anything to these folks for their crimes...they will just continue to steal when they can.

P.S. You can bet that I rewarded the lady at Penny's that was the catalyst in catching this thief as well as the credit union manager for her diligence in shutting down my accounts.