Sure, the computer did it  but someone told the computer to do it.

      Texas couple swimming in $7.7m water bill  
      Thu Jan 8, 7:50 PM ET 


DALLAS (Reuters) - A Texas couple needed a drink after they got a water bill for $7,714,510.21 (4.2 million pounds) instead of the usual $50 or $60. 

       

Stella and Chuck Richison were sent the bill from the coastal city of Corpus Christi, Texas. The city has acknowledged that the bill was sent in error because of a computer glitch. 


"They must have been thinking we were watering all of Corpus Christi," Stella Richison said on Thursday. 


She said she opened the letter from the utility seeking nearly $8 million and handed it over to her husband, saying: "Honey, you've got a bill." 


They called the water department to question if the figures were correct and were met by silence on the other end of the phone. "Then, they all chuckled and they freaked out," Richison said. 


The Richisons plan to frame the $7.7 million water bill and hang it in their house -- perhaps over the kitchen sink. 

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