>I had a checkbook stolen several years ago at the grocery store. I knew it was gone when I couldn't pay for the groceries. I immediately called the police and filed a report. The next morning I was at the bank closing the account. The crooks wrote checks for several high priced items...cameras, bikes, and other things. The merchants tried to come after me for non payment but I simply sent them a copy of the police report and I was done. Their fault for not getting ID.

Good point, Craig. Before the intro of "Chip 'n' PIN" not so long ago I was always appalled at the laxity of clerks when they took your payment card and never even glanced at your payment slip signature to check it matched that on the card.

I take it you have this service in the USA, whereby you type your PIN into a hand-held console. We were a bit late in intro'ing this, a few years ago, as the French had had it for years before us.
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