There are times that I run across absurd stories that I just cannot let go of at any cost and this one is by far the most absurd I have seen so far this year.

A bank in Florida refused to cash a check for an armless man because he could not provide a thumbprint.”They looked at my prosthetic hands and the teller said, ‘Well, obviously you can’t give us a thumbprint’,” Steve Valdez told CNN on Wednesday.

But he said the Bank of America Corp branch in downtown Tampa, Florida, still insisted on a thumbprint identification for him to cash a check drawn on his wife’s account at the bank, even though he showed them two photo IDs.

In the incident last week, a bank supervisor told Valdez he could only cash the check without a thumbprint if he brought his wife in with him or he opened an account with them.

Bank of America said in a statement cited by CNN: “While the thumbprint is a requirement for those who don’t have accounts, the bank should have made accommodations.”

Valdez said his treatment by the bank violated the U.S. Americans with Disability Act requiring institutions to provide reasonable accommodation to disabled persons.

Is that not taking the letter of the law a bit far?  Common sense would dictate….oh damn…sorry…common sense is in short supply in the US….sad ……