Sunday, 31 December 2017

Woman gets $284 billion electric bill, wonders whether it's her Christmas lights




You could own all of Netflix. Or purchase 747 Boeing 747s, with change to spare. Or erase the national debts of Venezuela, Nigeria, Peru and Iceland, combined.Or, if you're Mary Horomanski, you could pay for one month's worth of electricity.Horomanski, from Erie, Pennsylvania, was shocked recently when she received an erroneous electric bill displaying an account balance of "284,460,000,000," with a first payment due of $28,176."I opened it up and there it was," she told The Washington Post.Horomanski, 58, began counting the commas ("Hundreds. Thousands. Millions. Billions . . . Can most people even count that high?"), then taking her glasses off and putting them on again."It wasn't due until November of 2018," she said. "It was like, well, I guess we have a year to come up with this billion-dollar bill."
What can you buy with $284 billion?

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