Would you be proud or ashamed of your son if he stole 75 billion dollars and gave it to you as a Christmas gift?

[Lookingforthetruth]

Your 11 year old son steals 75 billion dollars from people's bank accounts and deposits it into your account. He does this as a gift to you in order to show his love and appreciation. Would you feel proud or ashamed of him?

Proud of my son

Ashamed of him

Indifferent

[NamerOfStars]

Both. Money deposited into US bank accounts (which require a social security number to even OPEN now, obnoxiously) have to report to the government any amount of money over ten thousand dollars deposited into them; even if he limited it to that amount per account, that's still three quarters of a million bank accounts to manage. Assuming the average debit card thickness of 0.03 inches, the cards alone would make your wallet 35.5% of a mile thick. Of course, an 11-year-old might not KNOW all that. Also, stealing is wrong.

On the other hand, that's an INCREDIBLE gesture, and WAY more advanced than anything I was doing with computers at eleven. Also: it says "Swiss Bank". Not "bankS". The population of Switzerland is 8.8 million, about the same as New York City. The total amount of money held in US banks IN TOTAL is about nineteen and a half trillion. And one bank in a country the size of one of our cities has 75 billion in stealable funds laying around? I'd wager quite a bit that a lot of that money was deposited there by people looking to take advantage of the advanced Swiss privacy laws to avoid paying taxes. Forcing other people to carry that burden for you is ALSO a form of stealing- so in a way, my theoretical son would just be balancing the karmic books. But stealing from thieves doesn't make it okay, and not EVERYONE with money in a Swiss bank account is ripping others off.

[NathanDavis]

he just landed a good job... good boy, way to earn a scholarship

[Anonymous]

How can an 11-year-old do this? Maybe his father passed the blame on to his son because he thought a kid not get jail time.

[LoneleeGirll]

Many kids are quite smart and tech savvy. My nephews 10 year old brother who has autism helps to fix people's phone when they are experiencing issues with it, he has also learned how to hack into and use his brothers WiFi. The kid is just 10 years old.

[ProudWoman]

@LoneleeGirll there is a big difference between a wifi for which there are pre written scripts that you can download from the internet and launch.. and a swiss bank..

[katiesmuff]

Proud of his talent, totally ashamed of how he used it!

[Perverted_Creep]

I have not looked into the story.

Could be another staged crisis to get the sheep to ask the big daddy government to implement more strict security to protect them, which will give them tighter control over us all.

[LoneleeGirll]

Definitely wouldn't be proud. Wouldn't necessarily be ashamed, but I would be furious to the point I would probably drag his butt to the police station myself.

[Sixgunsound]

They should hire him as a security consultant. Even at 10% bounty on what he can show them how he stole it would demonstrably save the bank billions.

[Drumlin2001]

I'd be a bit disappointed that he's done something so obviously going to be found out. You don't need more than £2m, can set yourself up for a comfortable life.

[BeyondBirthday]

Proud of him but scared of the jail time.

[Anonymous]

Ashamed.