Half a tank of gas? That'll be 81 billion dollars.

[Sionnach Glic]

SPOKANE, Wash. -Juan Zamora says a normal trip to the gas station
turned into an $81 billion mistake when he filled-up his gas tank earlier this week.

Zamora commutes from Spokane to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Richland, WA.
Making the drive 4 times per week equates to 700 miles and $100 in gas every week.

Zamora returned home to hear an automated voicemail explain his purchase
at a local gas station was approved for $81,400,836,908.
"I didn't believe the amount myself," he said. "So I played it over and over again."

Over and over again he heard the same amount: $81,400,836,908.

Zamora says it took hours of work on the phone to clear the
billions of dollars of debt, but in the end the bank realized what happened.

"All in all I lost a couple of hours of work," he said. "But I knocked a huge debt off."

And he gained an unforgettable story.

Just how the fuck did that happen?

[Nutso]

How come everyone is always in debt for $81,400,836,908? Why doesn't anyone ever receive $81,400,836,908?

[Granitehewer]

reasonable price for petrol these days........

[Captain Picard's Hair]

You know, it strikes me as strangely cool that there was an "exact" sort of amount down to the dollar rather than $81,000,000,000. It'd have been better if there were cents too, though. 8)

[Sionnach Glic]

What I want to know is just how the hell the computer ever got it to that amount in the first place. Was he trying to pay with Zimbabwe dollars?

[Captain Picard's Hair]

What I want to know is just how the hell the computer ever got it to that amount in the first place. Was he trying to pay with Zimbabwe dollars?

Yeah, I was wondering that myself.

[Graham Kennedy]

How come everyone is always in debt for $81,400,836,908? Why doesn't anyone ever receive $81,400,836,908?

If you did, do you think they'd let you keep the interest while you had it? Even a day's worth would have to be quite a chunk of change!

[Sionnach Glic]

Because I'm bored:

Assuming .001% interest per year.
You'd earn approx 814,008 per year, and approx 2,230 per day.

So, yeah, you could probably live quite nicely off the interest alone.

[Monroe]

Wow awesome story.

Bank must have been like hell yeah we'll agree he owes us that.

[thelordharry]

Cheaper than the prices of a UK Motorway service station. Throw in a coffee and donut to round it up to 90 billion.