"Please help! I'm stuck in here and I can't get out!" What would you do if a note like this

[pnwmom]

came out of your ATM machine?

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/13/537043822/texas-police-make-odd-withdrawal-from-atm-a-man-who-was-trapped-inside

For a little while Wednesday afternoon, customers at an ATM in Texas got a curious extra with their cash. Along with a receipt detailing their transaction, they got a little slip of scribbled-on white paper.

It was a plea for help from the man trapped inside.

SNIP

Customer after customer assumed — quite understandably — that the notes had to be a prank.

Eventually, a good samaritan took the situation seriously and contacted the cops. Though at first, Olden admitted, even the officers first on the scene thought it was a prank, too.

[SamKnause]

1. I would notify the fire department.

I want zero contact with the 'police', aka armed thugs and executioners.

[pnwmom]

2. In my city the 911 operator decides where the call should be routed.

In this case I can see why a lot of people thought it was a prank.

[SamKnause]

3. In my rural area I can call the fire department or the police department.

I wouldn't dial 911.

It could have been a skit on TV.

[rusty quoin]

4. I actually almost got myself in a similar situation

[pnwmom]

5. That must have been unnerving. n/t