How would you like to receive this water bill?.....

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

A woman in Moscoutah, IL received a one month's bill from the city for water and sewer charges of $78,000! She knew she had used quite a bit of water but not that much!! She called her daughter and asked her if she could borrow some money to pay her bill and her daughter said how much do you need? Her mother said only $78,000 and the daughter said she didn't have quite that much to loan to her!

The lady took her bill to the water company and they were shocked at the amount and found out her water meter wasn't working correctly and she only owed $33.00 plus for the month and she doesn't even have to pay that for all the trouble they caused her!

I think I would have a heart attack if I was supposed to have used 10 million gallons of water. The town's water tower wasn't empty so they knew something was wrong and it was her meter! Well, everything worked out okay and you might have heard about it on the news or read it on the Internet!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[SilverSeeker]

you never know what ye old water companies or electric companies are going to do if anyone encounters that situation. I think I'd buy a house in the mountains near a stream and make my own water mill and get a small generator and attach it to the water mill and not have to pay the water bill or electric bill. My how so many ways we can beat the system by just our wits and a little ingenuity to survive. Funny story I might add. Not funny that it happened to her because it can happen to any one of us water bill and electric bill paying patrons.

Thanks for sharing that.

Russ

 

[VT Dave]

cause our sewer bill is 2.5 times our water bill. That = $273,000!!

 

[Mike from MI Iron Brigade]

for $2,000.00!!! Get this, It was for 4 days of phone calls! Someone had used my number somehow to charge the calls. Most of the calls were to over seas numbers. I didn't have to pay a nickel, they could see that it was a definite change from anyone I have ever called, and to how much I had ever spent. They told me that they could even tell where all the calls came from. WHEEWW!!! Dodged a bullet there!

 

[Digdoug]

Whew! I haven't gotten my bill for filling up Brian's pool yet, I hope it isn't like that one!

Did you get a lot of rain Betty?

Doug

 

[steve in so la]

is 13 bux for sewer and about 150 bux for water. Steve in so az

 

[steve in so la]

who read the water meters. He said sometimes he just punched in anything to fill up his quotas so he could go to the bar early. What a scumbag, Steve in so az

 

[VT Dave]

you're not building a new water treatment facility in your town. I just love the location the town chose, right between two restaurants and across the road from the high school Actually I feel it's pretty dumb and if I owned either of those diners, I'd be putting up a stink of my own!

Dave

 

[steve in so la]

sitting in classes smelling the odor as it wafts thru the high school Steve

 

[Ray_Finder]

That is hillarious ! ! ! !

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

Only rained on and off for one day, night and part of next day and haven't had any for the last two days. They are predicting more for the weekend, maybe, and hot weather again in the 90's with high humidity! Whew! This old lady will stay in where it's cooler!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

the phone company went after the ones who were doing the dirtiness to you and were paid what was due them!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

you can have your car converted to burning used vegetable oil from the fast food places and get it for nothing or almost nothing. One couple travelling on vacation did just that by stopping and filling up wherever they could get used veg oil and can you smell the french fries as you travel down the highways behind them, but not the odor of fish?....YUCK!

God Bless!
Betty

 

[MI$$OURI BETTY]

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[Mike Chgo area]

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[Mike from MI Iron Brigade]

they were on their trail! I hope so too!

 

[Anonymous]

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