Author Topic: Malaysian man hit with $218 trillion phone bill (Read 2193 times)

Foxy Brown · « **on:** April 10, 2006, 10:13:33 PM »

A Malaysian man was speechless when he received a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

JFC · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2006, 10:20:50 PM »

My god that's just ridiculous. :-o

suki* · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2006, 04:31:45 AM »

How in the world can anybody chalk up to USD218 trillion of a phonebill in 4mths? o.O Didn't they think it was fishy when they sent him the bill in the first place? O.o

Tyler_Wood_2005 · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2006, 07:07:15 AM »

Not even Bill Gates could help foot that bill

JTRIX · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2006, 09:55:14 AM »

omg.... how could this happen???
Isn't there someone to check or notice this 218 trillion dollar bill before send it out?

Lunar · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2006, 01:27:58 PM »

what the fuck o_o didnt they notice earilier that this phone bill gonna get damn high oO ?

daigong · « **Reply #6 on:** April 12, 2006, 04:26:30 AM »

He must be a Phone Sex and Psychic Hotline addict!!

Asmodai · « **Reply #7 on:** April 12, 2006, 04:33:27 AM »

$218 trillion...

The entire GDP of the planet earth is less than $60 trillion.

Basically, it would take all the economic activity on the entire planet 4 years to pay that off.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html

Who was he calling? Jupiter?

U.S.S. John E. Badass · « **Reply #8 on:** April 12, 2006, 02:51:02 PM »

I like how "it wasn't clear whether the bill was a mistake". Using my calculator-fu, I determined that if the line was in constant use for 102 days, that still makes 25 million dollars a second. I don't think the telecom company has much of a case unless they can show that the guy keeled over while phoning his aunt in Alpha Centauri and nobody bothered to hang up when they found the body.

Asmodai · « **Reply #9 on:** February 23, 2008, 04:27:50 AM »

So, has he paid it yet?