Ohio man hit with $16.4 million cable Bill

You might have heard the story about a man breathing in a 14x60 trailer, which received a $ 12,864 thrilling bill, or a someone Corpus Christi which was position 7.7 million of its water company, or Canadian mobile phone supplier which struck him behind $ 85,000 - the list really goes on and with no sign of stopping. Now disgraceful bill receivers club a new member in Daniel DeVirgilio.

Yes, based on the cable bill, which DeVirgilio received this week, he is either the king of pay per view, or a victim of one of the most extreme of computerized billing glitches in the history of computer glitches in billing. Fortunately for him, it seems, is the latest.

When you try people in Ohio to make the payment on your cable bill Time Warner had rejected, he learned that the company expects its overdue amount more than $ 16 million.

"All I want to do is look at March Madness", DeVirgilio, whose bill usually runs about $ 80 a month, said the Dayton Daily News. The paper says DeVirgilio did the math and concluded that he would order 1.6 million on-demand movies or pay-per-view fight 400,000 times to save 16.4 million dollars in expenses. But at least he is maintaining a sense of humor about all this.

"If I knew it, I would have bought Showtime", DeVirgilio, an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, said the Daily News. For its part, Time Warner issued a statement apologizing for the mistake and said that they "will work with the client to get this resolved."

Although the dollar amount of billing test DeVirgilio making it among the more glaring in recent years, all the kings of the payment incident should be a man of Texas and New Hampshire man is, who got quadrillion dollars credit card accounts in 2009. The first of them, John Force, received notice that he has a 17-figure sum, which amounted to nearly 2000 times the national debt: 23 quadrillion, 148 trillion 855 billion, 308 million, 184 thousand and 500 dollars. Others, Josh Muszynski, has been charged in 23 quadrillion after buying a pack of cigarettes at the gas station.