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Palladium
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
Location: Korea
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 Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 5:07 pm Post subject: New Hampshire Man charged 23 Quadrillion Dollars for Smokes |
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I wonder if that's how Obama will balance the budget?!? Maybe the guy can apply for a bailout, everyone else is getting one.
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NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes
By Associated Press
July 15, 2009
MANCHESTER, N.H. � A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number � a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
The bank corrected the error the next day.
Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank. |
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Pluto
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005
Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:36 am Post subject: |
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| Did the UPC product code get entered as the purchase price by mistake? |
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Palladium
Joined: 26 Apr 2009
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 4:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Maybe they accidentally converted it to Zimbabwe dollars or something. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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| ontheway wrote: |
| Did the UPC product code get entered as the purchase price by mistake? |
UPC codes aren't usually that long. |
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RJjr
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| Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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I like how it took Bank of America two whole hours to stop wasting their time hoping the guy would fork over the 23 quadrillion dollar balance.  |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:15 am Post subject: |
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| Must been some really good dope. |
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