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Current Events and Musings => News of the Day => Topic started by: WhiskeyGirl on October 12, 2012, 01:11:33 PM



Title: "...phone company sends her a final bill... of £10 trillion"
Post by: WhiskeyGirl on October 12, 2012, 01:11:33 PM
"'I almost had a cardiac arrest’: French woman stunned after phone company sends her a final bill... of £10 trillion"

That's some cancellation fee  ::MonkeyShocked::

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A French woman had the shock of a life time when she received a phone bill of £10 trillion – nearly 6000 times the country’s GDP.


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To her surprise, operators at Bouygues Telecom said they could not amend the charges and that she was liable for the sum, insisting it would automatically be withdrawn from her bank account.

Blood and turnip comes to mind...does the bank even have that kind of money? 

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‘One operator told me: "It's automatic, there is nothing I can do.” Another simply informed me that I would be contacted to set up a re-payment plan of installments.'

Thank goodness for the budget plan!

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216241/Woman-receives-quadrillion-dollar-phone-10-trillion-says-cardiac-arrest.html#ixzz296aYBkaP (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216241/Woman-receives-quadrillion-dollar-phone-10-trillion-says-cardiac-arrest.html#ixzz296aYBkaP)