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Ohio Man Floored by $8000 Gas Bill

 


Soulfire
Comcast wrote:

ZANESVILLE, Ohio - Lewis Miller joked with his son as he opened his gas bill that the amount likely would give him a heart attack. Then, he saw that The Energy Cooperative of Newark had billed him $8,095 for the first nine days of service on his new account for his apartment.

"I thought I was just going to lay down and die," Miller said. He then had an anxious weekend because he received the bill Friday and couldn't get a hold of the gas company until Monday.

When Miller reached the Energy Cooperative, the error was corrected.

Brian Byrd, a spokesman for the utility, said the company apologized to Miller for its mistake.

"These things are very rare, but they can happen," Byrd said.

The company suspects that a contractor mixed up or misread the numbers while taking a reading of Miller's meter. The information is downloaded into a computer that checks for billing errors by looking at what a customer was charged in the past. Since Miller's account was new, there was nothing to compare it to, Byrd said.

What would you do if you got a gas bill like that? Luckily it was just an error, but still, could you imagine how stressful that weekend would've been?
xorcist
I hope that will never happen to me I would of call the company the first thing I got the bill. I would never even ry to thinking abuot paying something like that. I would of argue so much for me not to pay it.
sunnygirl
Lol!! Poor guy. I would have freaked out, but it's pretty obvious that that's an accident...
Still sucks, though..
Vrythramax
I would have had a massive heart attack before I ever could have gotten it straightened out. My bill is bad enough during the winter months as it is.....but $8,000+???

Yep...I would have died on the spot.
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