I could get the money. I could just shut down the camera, tell the machine to spit it out, and walk away. No one would know I had done anything. I just touched the machine, that’s all. It’s all I have to do to get cash. They can’t trace it. All they see is a blank spot in the tape and less cash than they should have. No break in, no damage, no logs.

I’d like to go out with everyone and party this weekend. But my paycheck isn’t until Tuesday. It wouldn’t be much. Just twenty or forty dollars. “I swear, officer. The machine just spat them out and I picked them up; I had nothing to do with it.”

But it’s still stealing. I’d be stealing from an ATM; from a bank. No one would ever know, and for that little money, why bother investigating it? Random cosmic ray just made the machine spit out some bills.

I could do it. I would get away with it. Just touch the machine and make it happen.