"The future for troubled [U.K.] bank Northern Rock was looking increasingly desperate last night after it emerged that customers had withdrawn more than £2 billion in savings since Friday... Massive queues have snaked around branches of the bank, such as this one on Edinburgh's Castle Street on Saturday, as panicked customers flocked to withdraw their savings."

-- Scotsman article (2007-09)

The next step will be a government ban on "hoarding" cash.