Smoker pays $29 quadrillion for a pack

by **Supafly** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 5:33 am

I laughed so hard at this:

NEW HAMPSHIRE - A US man says he swiped his debit card at a service station to buy a packet of cigarettes and was charged over 29 quadrillion dollars.

Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire, checked his account online a few hours after the purchase and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning US$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 told WMUR-TV that he spent two hours on the phone with the Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers - and the US$15 ($23.68) overdraft fee.

The bank corrected the error the next day.

by **CHarvey** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:52 am

I was sitting thinking it was fake and that no bank would allow a charge to go through like that, they should flag it. Then I read more and saw that it was Bank of America and it all made sense.