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Important to note: Those Monopoly cards that read "Bank error in your favor" don't exist in real life.

A New Zealand couple reacted understandably -- if illegally -- when a bank accidentally credited their account with $6 million recently. They withdraw the cash and did a runner. The pair, who reportedly ran a service station in the country's North Island, asked the bank for a $6,000 overdraft but instead received the lump sum (plus a bunch of extra zeroes) in their business account.

No word on how much of the free bounty the fugitives were able to pocket before the bank cottoned onto their mistake, but they are understood to have fled the country. Interpol (the global police force, not the gloomy New York indie band) is on the case.

If caught, the Bank Error Bandits will presumably be instructed to go directly to jail, not to pass Go, and not to collect $200.