Hot Check Writers

  Some local businesses in small towns take checks because customers are regular clients. Some of these customers literally "borrow" money with "insufficent funds" checks and then come back and the business ask for money to redeem said checks. A truckstop near WT Free Press has this continual problem. The owner needs those customers so he doesn't send the checks to DA's office. He's being kind. Today I was informed some joker wrote a check for gasoline and it was "hot". The owner tried to get the check made good and the joker ranted "my father just died and you want me to pick up that check". This joker is a regular customer and wrote the check before his dad died. DA collects a fee for owners but that requires paperwork that could lead to "hot check writer" getting fined and boycotting the business in question. I for one haven't written a "bad check" in 40 years. At some point soon businesses will only take cash or plastic because "jokers writing hot checks" may ruin check writing for all of us.