NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes

[tk2kewl]

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_quadrillion_dollar_debit

[krispos42]

1. $23,148,855,308,184,500

Plus a $15 overdraft fee! :rofl:

[tk2kewl]

2. maybe it was one of these guys:

[krispos42]

4. Yikes!

:wow:



That's determination!



And I know they raised the taxes on smokes, but a billion bucks per coffin nail seem excessive.

[jeff30997]

3. Gee !

And I thought that cigarettes were overtaxed here !

[charlie and algernon]

5. and Mitch the gas station owner was foiled in his bid to buy the nations of the G8

always a loser in these kinds of incidents

[rrneck]

6. My favorite part:

Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.

The decline of western civilization.

[JonLP24]

7. Thief

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8929539

:P

[NewJeffCT]

8. Just think - he could fund single-payer healthcare with the tax on that money

and then some!

[zanne]

9. Yup. It's getting expensive to live here. nt

[MicaelS]

10. As someone said on another thread on this topic

"Sounds like a sin tax error" :bounce: :applause: :rofl:

[Initech]

11. The withdrawal fees must have been insane.

:yoiks: