My father in law ran a high end raid guild on ysera; up until late icecrown, they were something like #2 or #3 on the entire server. So, they lost a couple of people - mostly due to officer incompetence - and due to elitism and impossibly high standards (This 6k gearscore warlock with world top 100 parses does not have a long enough application, denied!) they haven't been able to get more recruits to fill the spots.
So, the ex-gm, who quit and transferred servers 11 months ago after he ran the guild into the ground, coupled with the recruiting officer who is the primary reason the guild is now in the shitter, decided to team up and tell him if he didn't hand off the GM position they were going to leave the guild and take enough people with them to keep them from raiding for the rest of the expansion.
They failed to remember that my father in law, through auction house farming and careful monitoring of market trends, had kept the guild in potions, flasks, enchants and gear upgrades for the last year. So, before he passed off the guild leadership, he went into the guild bank and completely emptied it out.
All 280,000 gold worth.
So, update to this: The faggots who took over the guild bailed immediately the next day and formed a new guild. Then filed a petition, saying that Melira (my father in law) 'stole the guild bank' to 'hinder the progress of the guild'. (which was a dead guild, that was no longer raiding, that was abandoned even by the new owners) Despite him offering to pass out and divvy up the gold among the raid core and return gold/items to people who put them in the bank. (he just didn't want his hard work being taken from him by someone who had literally been in the guild for six weeks)
So some GM who didn't actually feel like doing his job and researching the situation banned my father in law for 72 hours on the grounds of 'scamming/phishing' and 'guild bank robbery', and rather than, you know, actually taking the items out of the guild bank and putting them back in the other guild's bank, said GM just withdrew 220,000 gold from Melira's bank guild and dumped it into the old guild's gbank.
Nevermind that Melira has hundreds of pages of logs to back up who the shit actually belongs to, and an GM who reviews the situation in depth would have understood this wasn't just a matter of guild bank robbery or some GM taking all the shit out and ragequitting. The guild was hamstrung at this point and wasn't going to recover.
I keep telling him to post to the customer service forums to get the ban undone - he's upset because now he has a 'final warning' on his account over something that he actually didn't do, not so much over the gold that was taken because the 20 primordial saronite he has alone will nearly be enough to cover what the GM took.
Oh, by the way? Immediately after the gold got transferred back to the old bank, the guy who filed the petition removed it all from the old guild's bank and dumped it into his new guild. Great job, there, GM team.