"Bank Of America Branch In California Reportedly Refuses To Allow Protesters To Close Accounts

Bank Of America Branch In California Reportedly Refuses To Allow Pr...

Should people who are tired of paying extra fees be allowed to close their bank accounts in protest? One Bank of America official reportedly doesn't think so.

According to Addicting Info, two women involved with the Occupy Santa Cruz movement in California walked into a Bank of America branch earlier this week and attempted to close their bank accounts. In response, the bank manager threatened to lock the doors and call the police on them. Her reasoning? You can't be a customer and a protester at the same time, the manager said.

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Comment by Unemployed Storm trooper TK420 on October 20, 2011 at 12:55pm: If you can...get your money out of the banks...before the government decide to confiscate all the money of all Americans except their federal goons and law enforcements minions... and send you to a FEMA camp with all your family to get suppose shelter, food and medical help....and exterminated or enslave as well...Wake up America, The New Corporate Fascist World Order is coming

Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on October 17, 2011 at 5:19am: @ Vincent Fair enough, as I was watching the video myself I was "placing bets" myself as to whether or not the camera would walk in. I wouldn't-- for fear of being arrested. Maybe it's a "California boy" thang :) I couldn't believe it when they walked in with the camera :)

Comment by LYNN SHEDLER on October 17, 2011 at 4:26am: I can certainly see where the Bank Manager was concerned with the girl with the sign coming into the Bank, but threatening to call the police was uncalled for. Remove the sign - yes, but ANYONE can close their bank account if they so choose to do so. The Bank Manager was certainly scared the the protest was coming into her Branch to do damage or disrupt their daily routien. Any Branch would probably hire security for a situation - this branch had none. They were all scared of a robbery - then why stay open with NO SECURITY? Doesn't make sense to me at all. And in the middle of a Protest.

I saw men and women older than my own Mother in amounst the protestors. And the Bank still stayed open. They must be totally stupid. Not saying that Seniors' are a threat - but it just shows how stupid some Branch Managers are!!!

Comment by Laura Morris on October 17, 2011 at 12:47am: Oh I would phone a civil rights legal eagle in a skinny minute!

Comment by Jerry H Alexander on October 16, 2011 at 6:25pm: And the Cops did just what they were told to do..regardless!

I think we should,some how,let their children know what their parents really do for a living.

And their classmates.It`s a kind of "From the Inside Out" type of thing;like Rust.

Comment by Vivian on October 16, 2011 at 4:52pm: My mom just withdrew her saving from BOA because the interest rate sucked beyond belief more than ever! I also experienced a hard time with them a few years back and was not a happy camper.

Comment by Glenn Thomas Langohr on October 16, 2011 at 4:46pm: Bank of America SUCKS! Predators! F-ing FEES! Another topic- If anyone has an amazon account and can give my drug war novels reviews I thank you in advance for helping an underdog! I use prisoner art for book covers...http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0056C0LW4

Comment by youhavetoforgiveme on October 16, 2011 at 3:09pm: On the surface, after reading that customers cannot be protesters at the same time, I thought "That woman is too stupid to be a bank manager." Now there are two sides to every story. I have complete faith that had the women walked in and simply closed their accounts and explained to the teller why they were closing their accounts, the bank would have happily complied. Any two or three accounts being closed-- even substantial ones-- wouldn't even be a blip on the radar. Even if the women brought the "protest" sign into the bank, I expect all would have gone reasonably smoothly. The fact that they brought a VIDEO CAMERA into the bank, which they knew would immediately be on YOUTUBE, that was the problem. They guessed right, didn't they? YouTube was the problem, not customer rights.

Comment by 7R33SandR0P3S on October 16, 2011 at 2:29pm: I will be up and watching NYSE:BAC Friday close at 6.19

http://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NYSE:BAC

And.....

NYSE:C (Citigroup Inc.) Friday Close at 28.40

http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AC

Time to take clothes off and do the Naked Short Dance?