Can I Bum a Smoke? Bank of America Unwinds 23 Quadrillion Dollar Charge for Cigarettes
From the Associated Press via The New York Post:
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 after the purchase 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 told WMUR-TV that 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 said the card issuer, Visa, could answer questions. Visa, in turn, referred questions to the bank.
No smokers at BofA or Visa, obviously.
