Bouncing Checks

Here’s a cute little trickster synchro tale that demonstrates  how quickly karma can catch up to a perpetrator of misdeeds. It comes from The Library of the Curious and Unusual: A World of Luck.
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On March 11, 1977, Vincent Leon Johnson brokie into the home of Nancy Hart and David Conner in Austin, Texas. He stole two television sets and checkbooks belonging to both Hart and Conner.

Johnson then decided to parlay the proceeds of his burglary by cashing one of the purloined checks at a nearby office of the Republic National Bank. He made out a check to Hart for $200, drawn on Conner’s account, and presented it–with one of Hart’s deposit tickets–to the teller.

He asked to deposit half to the account, and return the rest in cash. It seemed like a plausible transaction and a sound plan, except for one small detail.. The teller was Nancy Hart.

Johnson went to jail.