Ohio bank repossess wrong house; owner wants $18K

[Contrary1]

Unbelieveable. These people make life-altering decisions via GPS?

"MCARTHUR, Ohio (AP) - An Ohio bank says a bad GPS navigator is the reason it repossessed the wrong house - and threw out all the possessions inside.

Homeowner Katie Barnett says her McArthur home was wrongly repossessed while she was away with her family last month. When they returned to the house, the locks had been changed and many of their belongings were missing.

Barnett wants the First National Bank of Wellston to give her $18,000 for the lost items. She says the bank wants her to show receipts for everything that's missing.

First National CEO Anthony Thorne says the bank wants to compensate the family "fairly and equitably" but the items Barnett is claiming doesn't match up with what the bank's employees removed.

The bank says the house it meant to clean out was on the same street."

That's all folks...the entire article. Case closed.

http://www.thenewsstar.com/usatoday/article/2591509?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7C

[dballance]

1. Why is this NOT a case of breaking and entering...

and grand theft? I don't give a crap they made a mistake on the address. They illegally broke into a house and stole a person's property.

[votingupstart]

2. i would tend to agree

The bank is not the government which has/can invoke a legal entry - why is this business and the people who ordered it to be done not facing the charges that i or anyone who went into a house and did the same thing would face.

i understand there is a civil remedy via a lawsuit but where is the criminal charges that the details of the story (if correct) support... is there more to this?

[HiPointDem]

5. +1. and they want *receipts* no less. gee, i didn't know you guys were coming.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. first national bank -do the right tHing

[B Calm]

4. The bank president of the First National Bank of Wellston

needs to be in jail! That's some balls from a burglar to ask the victim for receipts for what he stole. The justice system in this country is really bad!

[newfie11]

6. GPS mistake? What the idiots couldn't read the address on the house?

$18,000 sounds cheap, the bank better pay it.