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My theory: This guy needs to lay off the phone sex

Drunk commies deleted
11-04-2006, 15:19
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
Cheese penguins
11-04-2006, 15:24
The article says the guy cut the line off as it was his fathers in january. poor guy.
Laerod
11-04-2006, 15:25
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?
Khadgar
11-04-2006, 15:27
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.
Rotovia-
11-04-2006, 15:27
He'll never get his credit rating back...
Ivia
11-04-2006, 15:29
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?!
Swilatia
11-04-2006, 15:29
$218 000 000 000 000 000 000??
I dont even think bill gates has that much??

Also, what the hell is phonesex.
Baratstan
11-04-2006, 15:29
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
Carisbrooke
11-04-2006, 15:30
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....
Ivia
11-04-2006, 15:32
$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.
Baratstan
11-04-2006, 15:32
Is it possible to get that much even through heavy use since when the phone was first invented?
Rotovia-
11-04-2006, 15:33
$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.
Jocabia
11-04-2006, 15:33
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.
Drunk commies deleted
11-04-2006, 15:37
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.
Drunk commies deleted
11-04-2006, 15:40
$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.
Swilatia
11-04-2006, 15:42
Noone does.

You sad, sad, little pre-pubescent teen.
Ive just never heard of phonesex. sooooo.
Rotovia-
11-04-2006, 15:48
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'.
Demented Hamsters
11-04-2006, 16:23
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.
UpwardThrust
11-04-2006, 16:32
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
Carnivorous Lickers
11-04-2006, 16:35
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
OceanDrive2
11-04-2006, 16:35
Also, what the hell is phonesex.Its an all-weather Sony-Ericsson with Industrial-class vibrator. :D :D :fluffle: :D
Carnivorous Lickers
11-04-2006, 16:37
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.
Drunk commies deleted
11-04-2006, 16:38
personally, I'd rather just use normal women
Well yeah, if you can't get good porn.
Sel Appa
11-04-2006, 16:39
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?
OceanDrive2
11-04-2006, 16:40
Its an all-weather Sony-Ericsson with Industrial-class vibrator. :D :D :fluffle: :Dor a Nokia :D

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