Ohio man gets a $16.4 million cable bill

[Kennah]

Source: Yahoo News

You may have heard the story about the man living in a 14x60 trailer who got a $12,864 electric bill, or the Corpus Christie man who was billed $7.7 million by his water company, or the Canadian whose cell phone provider hit him up for $85,000--the list truly goes on and on and on. Now the outrageous bill receivers club has a new member in Daniel DeVirgilio.
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When the Ohio man's attempt to make a payment on his cable bill to Time Warner was rejected, he learned that the company had calculated his past-due amount at more than $16 million.

"All I want to do is watch March Madness," DeVirgilio, whose bill usually runs around $80 a month, told the Dayton Daily News. The paper says DeVirgilio did the math and concluded that he'd have to order 1.6 million on-demand movies or a pay-per-view fight 400,000 times to accumulate $16.4 million in charges. But at least he's maintaining a sense of humor about the whole thing.

"Had I known this I would have bought Showtime," DeVirgilio, an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, told the Daily News. For its part, Time Warner issued a statement apologizing for the error and said that they're "going to work with the customer to get this resolved."


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Another software developer watched "Office Space" and figured they had this penny scamming thing all worked.

[L. Coyote]

1. Did the same computer count election results in Ohio?

[alp227]

2. have Comcast pay for it n/t

[GKirk]

3. just pay it and

shut up!

Or "thats a lot of porn!"

[rufus dog]

5. on a related note

All drug stores within a fifty mile radius reportedly are out of stock of all lubricants.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. k&r

[RedCloud]

6. Well someboday has to reimburse those republican propaganda donators.

[onethatcares]

7. what does "work with the customer to get this resolved" mean?

are they going to line item each section of the bill? Jeez, any sane company would say, "we f'd up, and we'll charge him for the March Madness and his standard bill".

But what is normal for companies any more, I don't know.