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0ops. 1,OOO-plus parking fine refunds ordered after drivers typed 'O' instead of '0'

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Re: And this ladies and gentlemen...

"[...] and 0 with a strike through?"

In my days as a junior programmer I learned the notation standard for punched card data sheets. Buying a new jacket with a cheque in 1970 I crossed the zero out of habit. The shop assistant asked me to sign my "correction" as they thought I had written 1971 and then changed it to 1970.

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