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from Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Topics for today's discussion:
1. Apparently neither the bank nor Visa had software to reject a charge for such an amount.
2. It took the bank a day instead of five seconds to realize the charge was absurd.
3. Could have been worse. It could have been 23 quadrillion in the British system.
4. Did he look at the amount before he signed/ entered his pin #?
MANCHESTER, N.H. - A New Hampshire man says he swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes and was charged over 23 quadrillion dollars.
Josh Muszynski checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number - a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars).
Topics for today's discussion:
1. Apparently neither the bank nor Visa had software to reject a charge for such an amount.
2. It took the bank a day instead of five seconds to realize the charge was absurd.
3. Could have been worse. It could have been 23 quadrillion in the British system.
4. Did he look at the amount before he signed/ entered his pin #?
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*sighs*