Re: New KeyBank ATMs in Upstate New York

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From: Michael D. Sofka
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 1996 00:00

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multics@wizvax.wizvax.net (Richard Shetron):
>In article <tcpnntpd.16.11.29.23.37.6.18082.11267@etu.tu.albany.ny.us>,
> <juniper@tu.albany.ny.us> wrote:
>>
>>  Recently KeyBank has been converting many existing drive-up windows to
>>ATMs in Upstate New York.  The lights that have been placed over the ATM
>>are so bright that you can read a newspaper in our back yard by the
>>light which glares into our residential area.
>
>[snip]
>
>The bright lighting is to discurage thieves from robbing people at
>ATM'S.  There was a story about ATM robberies on 60 Minutes several
>months or maybe a year or two ago.

And how many ATM robbers have been hiding in your back yard?  It is not
necessary for stray light to intrude on neighbors in order to light up
your yard, and likewise it is not necessary for parking lot, ATM, bank,
shop-till-you-drop marts, etc. to shine their light into your backyard.

Mike
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From: sofkam@betelgeuse.its.rpi.edu (Michael D. Sofka)
Subject: Re: New KeyBank ATMs in Upstate New York
Date: 1996/12/03
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