Smoke smoke that cigarette....

POIDOG

When you get to heaven, be sure to tell St. Peter he's got to wait
cause you just got to have another cigarette :eek: :eek::p


http://www.rr.com/home/home/article/rr/9000/8349000/NH_man_charged_23_quadrillion_dollars_for_smokes

exalted512

damn, I knew prices had gone up...but thats an expensive tax!
-Cody

slowpolky

Thats so awesome .I found that very funny

tonyb

I find it funny the amount was approved.I'd have no problem asking ST.Peter if he has a light,after all,your allready dead,a smoke isn't going to harm anyone.

AudioGenics

23 quadrillion for a pack

20 cigarettes in a pack

1.15 quadrillion per cigarettes

time to smoke a cigarette approximately 6-7 minutes
lifetime loss due smoking a cigarette 11-12 minutes

good way to stop the smoking habit....

TECHNOKID

exalted512 wrote: »

damn, I knew prices had gone up...but thats an expensive tax!
-Cody

Ya, you'd feel like you live in Canada!

jvc wrote: »

23 quadrillion for a pack

20 cigarettes in a pack

1.15 quadrillion per cigarettes

time to smoke a cigarette approximately 6-7 minutes
lifetime loss due smoking a cigarette 11-12 minutes

good way to stop the smoking habit....

Humm, goood incentive to quit, I am not sure I can fit the smoking in my budget anymore unless... I quit eating, sell my house, walk naked, mortgage a few generations... sell my A/V toys :eek:

bobman1235

This has apparently happened before, and is a known rare bug in Visa's system. Previously : http://consumerist.com/5314246/unruly-teen-charges-23-quadrillion-at-drugstore

lifetime loss due smoking a cigarette 11-12 minutes

One of the most **** stats ever created, by the way.

shack

He wasn't the only one. This guy got a similar bill for a meal for 5 at one of Wolfgang Pucks restaurants....

North Texas man has a 17-figure credit card statement after a bank glitch resulted in an eye-popping charge.

Wow! A Quadrillion-Dollar Credit Card Bill

A banking glitch turned a charge from Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck into a whopping 17-figure credit card charge.

This is what it looks like: $23,148,855,308,184,500.00.

Here’s how to say it: 23 quadrillion,148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184 thousand and 500 dollars.

It's more than 2,000 times the national debt -- and, according to Jon Seale's online credit card statement, it’s what he spent July 13 at Five Sixty by Wolfgang Puck.

“For that amount of money, I could actually own Wolfgang Puck himself," Seale said.

Seale, a husband and father of five from Trophy Club, spent much of Tuesday making calls to Wachovia and Visa in hopes of getting the exorbitant charge removed from his Wachovia Visa Buxx credit card. Both companies told him they were working to resolve the issue.

“It's an inconvenience, but it's not like I was truly worried my money was gone," he said. "It’s an obvious, glaring error.”

Seale even tried tracking down the celebrity chef himself.

“I tried to find Wolfgang Puck on Facebook and add him as a friend to see if he’d make a comment, but I didn’t have any luck finding him," Seale said.

Visa said the technical glitch that resulted in the giant charge only affected some customers with prepaid Visa cards.

"A temporary programming error at Visa Debit Processing Services caused some transactions to be inaccurately posted to a small number of Visa prepaid accounts," said Visa spokeswoman Elvira Swanson said in a written statement. "The technical glitch has been corrected, and all erroneous postings have been removed.”

Steale was not the only Visa Buxx cardholder to see the huge charge on his statement. A New Hampshire man found the $23 quadrillion charge after buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station. A Visa representative said affected customers will also have the $20 overdraft fees removed.

shack

That's at least 3 that were hit up with bills for $23 Quadrillion.

We can only hope that this doesn't give Obama any ideas. The next tax bills may just have a few $0s added...whoops...just a computer error (if caught).

AudioGenics

bobman1235 wrote: »

This has apparently happened before, and is a known rare bug in Visa's system. Previously : http://consumerist.com/5314246/unruly-teen-charges-23-quadrillion-at-drugstore



One of the most **** stats ever created, by the way.

I don't believe in many of the statistics
but there could be a tad bit of truth that smoking is bad for a person's health.