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by Mike Masnick




A $40 Trillion Library Bill

from the oops dept

Found over at GeekPress is the story of a guy who received a library bill for $40 trillion. Yes, trillion. He joked that he must have accidentally dog-eared one of the books (I guess libraries these days take that seriously). He called up the library and offered to "run right over" with the cash. Of course it was a nice little computer glitch that caused the problem.

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  1. Feb 7th, 2001 @ 11:15am

    Not a Computer Glitch

    by Ed

    That's not a computer glitch. Some clerk entered a book's ISBN in the Amount Due field. Human error.

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