From: lyger (lygerattrition.org)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2006 - 10:33:53 CDT

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Courtesy hypronix <hypronix_at_gmail.com>

http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/TopStory/home.html

By John Pigeon, 24 HOURS

When Mark Schroeder slapped a pizza dinner on his Visa card in Whistler three
years ago, he never thought that his Visa receipt would end up in a dumpster
behind a Domino's franchise office in Port Coquitlam.

But on Tuesday afternoon when 24 hours followed an anonymous tip to the
dumpster off Kingsway Avenue, Schroeder's credit-card slip, complete with
account number, expiry date and name, was among thousands in a trash container.

"I can't even think of a word to describe how upset I am right now. What can
you say?" Schroeder said from his home in Pemberton. "I'm kind of awestruck,
actually, that they would do something like this and treat their customers with
such a lack of respect."

The anonymous tipster felt the same way when he came across the dumpster,
overflowing with credit-card slips and card imprints, on his morning walk to
work.

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