Long lines of Greek pensioners outside banks have thoroughly attracted the attention of the international media.

Canes at hand, they sit outside the banks to get 120 euros of their already-axed pensions. At  a branch of the National Bank in Kallithea, priority cards had been offered to avoid the shoving and pushing that pensioners are renowned for even in the best of cases. They came in droves early on Friday, but despite efforts to ensure that there was some sort of organization there was no end to the lines of shame…

This was the third day of waiting prior to the start of pension downpayments.

Constantine Michalos, head of the Athens Chamber of Commerce, told the Telegraph that banks in Greece are simply running out of money. “We are reliably informed that the cash reserves of the banks are down to 500 million euros. Anybody who thinks they are going to open again on Tuesday is day-dreaming. The cash would not last an hour,” he said.

The media’s objective reportage of the crisis has led to panic, causing people to rush to their accounts and get to their money while they can…

Here are the lines of shame in the lead-up to the hastily called referendum, which triggered a bank holiday, which triggered capital controls, which caused the unprecedented scenes on modern Greece’s streets:

NOW SPOT THE DIFFERENES IN IMAGES OF SHAME TODAY TO THE IMAGES OF SHAME BEFORE THE REFERENDUM ANNOUNCEMENT:

At the unemployment office:

Here’s how pensioners used to wait, in the good ol’ days before panic broke loose…

Another blast from the past… starving Greeks line up for food in 2012.

The lives of pensioners were so orderly before the referendum was announced – no panic, no shame… everything relaxed and organized…