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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 06:33:24 am

Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 06:33:24 am: and sues the credit card company.....

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A New York woman who ran up debts of $951,000 on her Amex account is sueing the company for $2m for allowing her to hammer the plastic, Newsday reports.

Antoinette Millard, 40, says American Express should have realised she was mentally incompetent when she opened the sky's-the-limit Centurion account. Her court filing states that American Express "knew or should have known that [Millard] was acting impulsively and and irrationally at the time she entered into contract". She cites anorexia, depression, panic attacks and "head tumors" as contributory factors to her mental incompetence.

American Express has obtained a court order freezing $951,000 in assets belonging to the former vice president at the Brown Brothers Harriman investment bank. To add to Millard's woes, she is currently on $100,000 bail awaiting trial on grand larceny charges after attempting to relieve an insurance company of $262,000 for jewellery she claims was stolen, but allegedly sold. If convicted, she faces up to 15 years' jail. ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/11/26/woman_sues_amex/
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Styxx on November 26, 2004, 06:37:01 am: Unbelievable...
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: pyro-manic on November 26, 2004, 06:48:32 am: I can't seem to find a word adequate to describe this....
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Clave on November 26, 2004, 06:54:46 am: Mentally deficient - oh, that's two words...;)
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Windrunner on November 26, 2004, 07:10:31 am: :LOL: that is too good to be true
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: pyro-manic on November 26, 2004, 07:16:58 am: I don't even find that funny. I'm struggling to believe that someone could actually seriously do that; that they're not taking the piss. ****ing hell.

We're all screwed......
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Corsair on November 26, 2004, 07:30:29 am: d'oh!
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Unknown Target on November 26, 2004, 07:41:04 am: Hilarious :D
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: karajorma on November 26, 2004, 08:12:54 am: I find it especially funny cause there is no way she'll win the case and then she'll end up having to pay her lawyers fees too.

The fact that after running up bills of $950,000 she's suing for 2 million is probably enough to lose her the case as it is. If her defense really was valid she'd just have returned what she bought and sued for the difference.
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Post by: Roanoke on November 26, 2004, 10:02:03 am: no way she'll get anythin' if she's up for fraud. Hell, she probably won't even be able to get insurance.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on November 26, 2004, 11:15:33 am: I hope she dies.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Gloriano on November 26, 2004, 12:31:09 pm: ROFL she tried get money from ae thats why she said
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"says American Express should have realised she was mentally incompetent when she opened the sky's-the-limit Centurion"

but i think she did lie
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Rictor on November 26, 2004, 01:46:15 pm: hmm, smart idea if it works, dumb idea if it doesn't.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Blitzerland on November 26, 2004, 02:22:14 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Rictor
hmm, smart idea if it works, dumb idea if it doesn't.

If she pulls it off, i'll sue my arch-nemesis, Uzbekistan, for verbal harrassment.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Goober5000 on November 26, 2004, 02:33:41 pm: Head tumors. That explains everything.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: aldo_14 on November 26, 2004, 02:48:56 pm: Quote
Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
I hope he dies.

Who he?
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: IceFire on November 26, 2004, 03:35:44 pm: Take some responsibility for yourself....and where's the family? People are "too" independant these days. All the things that used to support people when they needed help (and we all need help sometimes) are gone...
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on November 26, 2004, 04:06:06 pm: I meant "she" aldo. My bad. I just realized that when I clicked on it again. :lol:
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Post by: vyper on November 26, 2004, 04:10:07 pm: [q]People are "too" independant these days[/q]

There's no such thing as being too independent.
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: redsniper on November 26, 2004, 06:20:58 pm: I bet she'll get away with it. I don't know how, but she'll find a way. I hope she loses tho
Title: Woman blows $950,000 on plastic
Post by: Grey Wolf on November 27, 2004, 01:39:09 am: Only way I see that she can get out of it is move to Argentina and get married quickly. That's assuming, of course, that Argentina hasn't changed it's extradition policies in the last 30 years....