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A Malaysian man has recieved a 218 Trillion Dollar phone bill. He claims that he doesn't know how it got that high. I think he needs to stop calling those phone sex lines.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_fe_st/trillion_dollar_phone_bill

The article says the guy cut the line off as it was his fathers in january. poor guy.

A Malaysian man has recieved a 218 Trillion Dollar phone bill. He claims that he doesn't know how it got that high. I think he needs to stop calling those phone sex lines.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060410/ap_on_fe_st/trillion_dollar_phone_bill
TRILLION?

That's not possible, I mean even at a dollar a minute..

I'd do the math but I'm not sure how many zeros that is!

218,000,000,000,000 minutes I think worth of chat, or 414,764,079 years of talking, non stop. The telepone isn't 414 million years old.

Not to mention the energy requirement of maintaining an active phone connection for 414 million years.

He'll never get his credit rating back...

If he had it disconnected with the phone company, he's not liable for those calls at all. And I'm assuming we're talking about American Trillion (as in 12 zeroes) but how in the **** do you get that much on a phone bill in 100 years, let alone 3 months?!

$218 000 000 000 000 000 000??
I dont even think bill gates has that much??

Also, what the hell is phonesex.

It might be like that time when Greenpeace took £500 out of someone's account instead of £5 because of a misplaced decimal point :D

PAH! Thats not as high as my bill....I would be richer than BIll Gates if I didn't keep phoning these sad single guys sitting in their grubby underwear and talking dirty to them all the damn time....

$218 000 000 000 000 000 000??
I dont even think bill gates has that much??
Take 6 zeroes off there. It's American trillion (thousand, million, billion, trillion, not thousand, million, thousand-million, billion, thousand-billion, trillion).

But yes, Bill Gates' net worth is in the <100 American billion dollar range.

Is it possible to get that much even through heavy use since when the phone was first invented?

$218 000 000 000 000 000 000??
I dont even think bill gates has that much??

Also, what the hell is phonesex.
Noone does.

You sad, sad, little pre-pubescent teen.

What I think is funny is that the company representative refused to comment? What is so scary about simply saying it was a clerical error? It's not like anyone actually believes it could possibly be legitimate.


By the way, at 5$/second, it would still take 1.4 million years. And at $1.4 million/second, it would still take 5 years. Basically, it doesn't take a genius to figure out it can't even be a case of someone hijacking the line. It's a computer error.

Looks like America is the only place where personal responsibility has been stabbed to death, sent through a shredder and then burned into ash.

That's not possible, I mean even at a dollar a minute..

I'd do the math but I'm not sure how many zeros that is!

218,000,000,000,000 minutes I think worth of chat, or 414,764,079 years of talking, non stop. The telepone isn't 414 million years old.

Not to mention the energy requirement of maintaining an active phone connection for 414 million years.
Not to mention how sore you'd be if you rubbed it out to phone sex for that amount of time. You'd literally jerk your meat off. There would be nothing left.

$218 000 000 000 000 000 000??
I dont even think bill gates has that much??

Also, what the hell is phonesex.
You call certain numbers and a woman talks dirty to you while your phone bill or credit card is billed at several dollars per minute. It's for really desperate guys I guess. Personally I'd rather just use normal porn.

Noone does.

You sad, sad, little pre-pubescent teen.
Ive just never heard of phonesex. sooooo.

Ive just never heard of phonesex. sooooo.
My phone number's +61 7 3806 NO WAY I"M GIVING IT OUT YOU TOOLS!

Good, clean, Christian fun. Involving mutual masturbation and dirty talk over the phone personally I like to provide intimate sexual fantasies, rather then just tawdry details.

Yeah, Ro's Ho's a dirty Mo'Fo'.

I love the fact that the bill was 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringget (Malay currency). Nice touch that 0.01.
Since it was his dead father's phone, and had been disconnected, maybe His dead Poppa was on the phone chatting to spiritualists - and you know how much they charge.
This bit confuses me:
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.
What exactly could you illegally do with a phone that would create a $218 trillion bill? Not even every phone bill in the world would cost that much!

If I was him, I'd put the bill on ebay - surely some idiot out there would love to have the world's most expensive phone bill.

I got to ask ... how the fuck does someone not catch that before calling the guy

I mean if I was a debt collector and saw that on my call list I would sure as hell contact my supervisor

You call certain numbers and a woman talks dirty to you while your phone bill or credit card is billed at several dollars per minute. It's for really desperate guys I guess. Personally I'd rather just use normal porn.

personally, I'd rather just use normal women

Also, what the hell is phonesex.Its an all-weather Sony-Ericsson with Industrial-class vibrator. :D :D :fluffle: :D

I love the fact that the bill was 806,400,000,000,000.01 ringget (Malay currency). Nice touch that 0.01.
Since it was his dead father's phone, and had been disconnected, maybe His dead Poppa was on the phone chatting to spiritualists - and you know how much they charge.
This bit confuses me:

What exactly could you illegally do with a phone that would create a $218 trillion bill? Not even every phone bill in the world would cost that much!

If I was him, I'd put the bill on ebay - surely some idiot out there would love to have the world's most expensive phone bill.


I'm not gonna do the math, but I'm willing to bet every cent ever billed for any and all telecom in the world to date doesnt add to 1% of this 218 trillion $ total.

personally, I'd rather just use normal women
Well yeah, if you can't get good porn.

That's not possible, I mean even at a dollar a minute..

I'd do the math but I'm not sure how many zeros that is!

218,000,000,000,000 minutes I think worth of chat, or 414,764,079 years of talking, non stop. The telepone isn't 414 million years old.

Not to mention the energy requirement of maintaining an active phone connection for 414 million years.
Doesn't Miss Cleo charge $5 a minute...

Perhaps he racked up a lot of surcharges and used a luxury line that couldnt be tapped or would be guaranteed to always work...or maybe it was a joke?

Its an all-weather Sony-Ericsson with Industrial-class vibrator. :D :D :fluffle: :Dor a Nokia :D

http://bumptiously.blogspot.com/VibraPhone.jpg