“We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong,” she said.
“My eyes just about popped out of my head,” she told the paper.
Turned out, the Horomanski household didn’t run up an electric bill greater than the GDP of most states.
Mark Durbin, a spokesman for Penelec, said a decimal point was probably put in the wrong place. “I can’t recall ever seeing a bill for billions of dollars,” Durbin said. “We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”
“We appreciate the customer’s willingness to reach out to us about the mistake.”
What the hell kind of comment is that?
“a decimal point was probably put in the wrong place.” -Power Company Spokesman Bud “Captain” Obvious.
Looks like she’ll be moonlighting for a very long time
Does Al Gore work in their billing department?
I might understand the decimal point being off by two places, but NINE ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE!?!?
This is your electric bill to the tenth power.
So if the family paid up nobody would have caught the error?
Damn green energy
The decimal point was definitely in the wrong place, the bill was meant for trillions of dollars.
I wouldn’t have paid it.
Let it come through as unpaid with interest then sue the County for harassment.
Maybe the UN thought she could cover for them since the USA isn’t paying for their fraudulent ways any more.
From the UPI article:
“A Pennsylvania woman checked her electric bill earlier this month and found she owed more than $28 billion.”
Only about $260 billion more. Doesn’t anyone PROOFREAD the news anymore?
Maybe this’ll help in the future, Penelec:
http://www.ohio.com/akron/business/technology/firstenergy-to-build-37-million-training-center-in-akron
COME ON!
EVERY YEAR someone gets a million $ electric or cell phone bill!
Guess what? Microsoft Excel can FLAG such huge numbers easily. It’s called CONDITIONAL FORMATTING!
For Pete’s sake, you’d think these companies would have put measures in place AFTER THE FIRST CUSTOMER experienced this. Learn people…..learn.
Good grief – how many lights did she put up?
What Uncle Al said. lol
Was this what Obama meant by our costs for energy would necessarily increase?
Zimbabwean dollars?