Man closes bank account over parking ticket validation

John Barrier had done business with Old Nation Bank in Spokane, Washington, for 30 years. He'd made his money buying and refurbishing old buildings and was wearing his usually shabby clothes that day in October 1988 when he left his pickup truck in a nearby parking lot while he paid a visit to his broker, then cashed a check at the bank.

The teller, however, took one look at his grubby clothes and refused to stamp the 60-cent parking bill.

"She told me the bank only validated parking tickets when a customer made a transaction and that cashing a check wasn't a transaction." said Barrier. The man said he asked the teller to call a bank manager, who also refused to validate his parking ticket.

"He looked me up and down and stood back and gave me one of those kinds of looks." said Barrier, turning up his nose to imitate the manager.

"I said, "Fine, you don't need me and I don't need you."

Barrier withdrew all his money (Over $2 million)  and took it down the street to Seafirst Bank.

"The first check he brought me was for $1 million," said Dennis Veter, vice president of Seafirst's main Spokane bank.

As John Barrier said:" If you have $1 in a bank or $1 million, I think they owe you the courtesy of stamping your parking ticket."

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