You may have heard the story about the man living in a 14×60 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.
Yes, based on the cable bill that DeVirgilio received this week, he’s either the king of pay-per-view, or the victim of one of the most extreme computerized billing glitches in the history of computerized billing glitches. Fortunately for him, it looks like it’s the latter.
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.
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article courtesy of Yahoonews.com
