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Sea Sabres
Man
Gets $12,000 Electric Bill
NORTH
PLATTE, Neb. (AP) -- Randy Carroll got quite a shock when his electric bill arrived
this week.
For
33 days of service, he was charged $12,344.16.
"It
was April Fool's Day, and I thought someone was playing a joke on me,"
said Carroll, who lives in a small, two-bedroom house.
It
turned out it was a real bill. But the amount was wrong.
A
glitch in Municipal Light and Water's new billing software caused Carroll's
bill to show he used 310,421 kilowatts. Usually, he uses about 300.
Carroll's
bill has now been straightened out.
The
real amount due: $26.26.
"That,"
he said, "I can handle."
Posted April 5, 2003
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