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Texas man trapped inside ATM rescued after passing notes through receipt slot Texas man trapped inside ATM rescued after passing notes through receipt slot
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A Texas man who became trapped inside an ATM slipped notes to customers via the receipt slot pleading for them to help him escape, police said Thursday. A Texas man who became trapped inside an ATM slipped notes to customers via the receipt slot pleading for them to help him escape, police said on Thursday.
Corpus Christi police lieutenant Chris Hooper says the contractor became stuck Wednesday when he was changing the lock to a Bank of America room that leads to the ATM. The Corpus Christi police lieutenant Chris Hooper said the contractor became stuck on Wednesday when he was changing the lock to a Bank of America room that leads to the ATM.
The unidentified contractor, who had left his cellphone in his truck, encountered a problem with the lock. “Apparently he left his cellphone and the swipe card he needed to get out of the room outside in his truck,” Hooper said.
He passed notes through the ATM receipt slot to customers retrieving cash. One read, “Please help. I’m stuck in here,” before imploring people to call his boss The contractor then passed notes through the ATM receipt slot to customers retrieving cash, imploring them to call his boss. One read: “Please help. I’m stuck in here.”
A customer called police, who heard a faint voice coming from the ATM. Some customers appeared to dismiss the notes as a prank, Hooper said. But one called police, who detected a faint voice coming from inside the ATM. An officer kicked in the door to the room and freed the man, whose name was not released.
An officer kicked in the door to the room, freeing the man. “Everyone is OK but you will never see this in your life, that somebody was stuck in the ATM,” Richard Olden, a police senior officer, told KRIS-TV. “It was just crazy.”