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 I saw this article on another social networking site and had to share, since many of us still smoke and often grumble about the high price these days:
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).
Muszynski says he spent two hours on the phone with Bank of America trying to sort out the string of numbers and the $15 overdraft fee.
The bank corrected the error the next day.
Bank of America tells WMUR-TV only the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.
If they had not straightened out this mess, them surely would have had to be some hard cigarettes to burn! 
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1.  icehut (332) | 6 months ago |  So, he had an unlimited overdraft on his bank account? That's crazy... Here's a thought, let's say he withdrew that amount in cash (hypothetically - we know they don't have that amount of cash...) and, with borrowed money in hand, he buys out the bank... Since he owns the bank, would he need to pay himself back the money?^_^
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2.  gitfiddleplayer (5581) | 6 months ago |  Don't you smokers know that was the total tax you are going to pay to fund this crazy universal health care bill? When they start raising the tax on Dr. Pepper Mr. Rogers is going to Washington! I'm sorta confused though, doesn't big tobacco want younger kids to smoke? How are they going to pander to kids who have no money because the family fortune is being spent on funding healthcare. Somebody better come up with a clever marketing ploy and fast.
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4.  sparkofinsanity (3542) | 6 months ago |  Well sh*t, I wanna know what branch he was banking with that would give him an overdraft of that amount of money! Man, I can't even get the bank I've been with for nearly 30 years to give me more than a two thousand dollar overdraft!
Pass the smokes will ya, I need a cigarette after reading that!
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| sparkofinsanity (3542) | 6 months ago | Well damn! And here I thought I was on to an instant money maker! ROFL | |
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| sparkofinsanity (3542) | 6 months ago | Alice if I told you what I had to do to get that overdraft you'd lose all respect for me and you'd want to slap my knees, wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ROFL | |
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| 5. tamarafireheart (12670) | 6 months ago |  Hi fwidman,
Wow!! some expensive cigarettes, must have been a faulty machine, I always buy mine with cash but never had any problems with my card though.
Tamara
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| 6. Opal26 (10242) | 6 months ago |  Hey fwidman! That sure was an expensive pack of ciggs! I
just don't understand how a machine could possible make
that huge an error! I wouldn't have even been able to read
the number, since I've never seen anything with that many
digits! If only the machines would make those kinds of errors
in our favors! But, it very rarely happens that way and if
it does they always manage to find those errors really fast!
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