Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

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Man Gets $218 Trillion Phone Bill

Postby BOSS on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:10 am

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - A Malaysian man said he nearly fainted when he recieved a $218 trillion phone bill and was ordered to pay up within 10 days or face prosecution, a newspaper reported Monday.

Yahaya Wahab said he disconnected his late father"s phone line in January after he died and settled the 84 ringgit ($23) bill, the New Straits Times reported.

But Telekom Malaysia later sent him a 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringgit ($218 trillion) bill for recent telephone calls along with orders to settle within 10 days or face legal proceedings, the newspaper reported.

It wasn"t clear whether the bill was a mistake, or if Yahaya"s father"s phone line was used illegally after after his death.

"If the company wants to seek legal action as mentioned in the letter, I"m ready to face it," the paper quoted Yahaya as saying. "In fact, I can"t wait to face it," he said.

Yahaya, from northern Kedah state, received a notice from the company"s debt-collection agency in early April, the paper said. Yahaya said he nearly fainted when he saw the new bill.

Government-linked Telekom Malaysia Bhd. is the country"s largest telecommunications company.

A company official, who declined to be identified as she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Telekom Malaysia was aware of Yahaya"s case and would address it. She did not provide further details.
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Postby shadowgrin on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:13 am

$218 trillion??!! :shock:
That's a thousand times more than the GDP of small 3rd world countries.
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Postby Buckley on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:29 am

218 trilliion fucking dollars? :shock:

wow, I bet the whole world combined doesnt have that money.
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Postby Raps13 on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:35 am

what the fuck was he doing to get a fuckin 218 trillion dollar bill :shock:
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Postby Riot on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:46 am

Raps12 wrote:what the fuck was he doing to get a fuckin 218 trillion dollar bill :shock:


Phone sex is extremely addicting.
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Postby Its_asdf on Tue Apr 11, 2006 9:46 am

Hm. I'm sure I had that much money in my wallet on Sunday...
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Postby Raps13 on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:51 am

Riot wrote:
Raps12 wrote:what the fuck was he doing to get a fuckin 218 trillion dollar bill :shock:


Phone sex is extremely addicting.


lol but seriously even if he was on phone sex for 24/7 for 365 days a year there is no way in hell that equals 218 trillion
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Postby dada on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:54 am

This is like the most retarded thing I have read in a while. Thats impossible for one man to run a bill that high. All those people working at that company should be shot.
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Postby shadowgrin on Tue Apr 11, 2006 10:59 am

It's a new strategy of saving one's business, or a subtle hint of saying to the public that the company is bankrupt.
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Postby killer_cr0ss0ver on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:07 am

im sure he's bill of $23 will be free after this problem is solve.
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Postby Jing on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:29 am

wow.. thats a lot of money.
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Postby Blasphemy on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:31 am

No way, how is that possible? Was he like Talking to meloboy all day or somethin
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Postby shadowgrin on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:33 am

He was having multiple phone conversations with you, Meloboy, and Shaun. Don't deny it.
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Postby Blasphemy on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:40 am

No I stopped after I got the bill of 1 triillion dollars :|
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Postby Amphatoast on Tue Apr 11, 2006 11:45 am

not even bill gates can afford this bill
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Postby Andrew on Tue Apr 11, 2006 12:15 pm

wankster wrote:No I stopped after I got the bill of 1 triillion dollars :|


See, that's still manageable.

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Postby Laxation on Tue Apr 11, 2006 2:31 pm

hahaha... the bill would need a little bit of paper stuck on the edge to hold all the 0's :lol:

Id love to get a bill like that, just to frame it and laugh at the phone company all day
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Postby Scotty on Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:39 pm

That guy seriously needs to change his phone plan-what is it like 10million for connection then a million a minute :|
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Postby H Rock on Tue Apr 11, 2006 3:43 pm

tripplemrox wrote:That guy seriously needs to change his phone plan-what is it like 10million for connection then a million a minute :|

Even then, he would have to be on for (roughly) 415 years...consecutive.
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Postby alexboom on Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:13 pm

wow hopefully he never joins this forum because such a chatterbox would spam this forum until it explodes :shock:
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Postby Fitzy on Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:25 pm

:shock: thats almost as scary as that huge ass snake
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Postby Cloudy on Tue Apr 11, 2006 5:30 pm

Probably just some mistake... How stupid... (N)
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Postby shadowgrin on Wed Apr 12, 2006 12:59 pm

alexboom wrote:wow hopefully he never joins this forum because such a chatterbox would spam this forum until it explodes :shock:

It won't happen because the position of head spammer is already taken by Jugs.
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Postby Scotty on Wed Apr 12, 2006 2:45 pm

H Rock wrote:
tripplemrox wrote:That guy seriously needs to change his phone plan-what is it like 10million for connection then a million a minute :|

Even then, he would have to be on for (roughly) 415 years...consecutive.


that proves it's a mistake theres no way his plan is that bad and even if it is :wink: he can't have been on the phone non stop for 415 years :crazy:
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Postby Andrew on Wed Apr 12, 2006 3:21 pm

True, he'd probably need to take a least a couple of bathroom breaks during that span.
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