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>Subject: Joke A Day - May 22nd, 1999
>Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 00:54:00 -0400
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>Site Fights Joke A Day for May 22nd, 1999:
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>Computer Error
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>In March 1992, a man living in Newtown, near Boston, Massachusetts,
>received a bill for his as-yet-unused credit card stating that he owed
>$0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April, he received another
>and threw that one away too. The following month the credit card company
>sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his card if
>he didn't send them $0.00 by return post. He called hem, talked to them,
>they said it was a computer error and told him they'd take care of it.
>
>The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out
>the troublesome credit card figuring that if there were purchases on his
>account it would put an end to his ridiculous predicament.
>
>However, in the first store that he produced his credit card in payment
>for his purchases he found that his card had been canceled. He called
>the credit card company who apologized for the computer error once again
>and said that they would take care of it. The next day he got a bill for
>$0.00 stating that payment was now overdue.
>
>Assuming that having spoken to the credit card company only the previous
>day the latest bill was yet another mistake he ignored it, trusting that
>the company would be as good as their word and sort the problem out. The
>next month he got a bill for $0.00 stating that he had 10 days to pay
>his account or the company would have to take steps to recover the debt.
>
>Finally giving in he thought he would play the company at their own game
>and mailed them a check for $0.00.  The computer duly processed his
>account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the
>credit card company nothing at all.
>
>A week later, the man's bank called him asking him what he was doing
>writing a check for $0.00.  After a lengthy explanation the bank replied
>that the $0.00 check had caused their check processing software to fail.
>The bank could not now process ANY checks from ANY of their customers
>that day because the check for $0.00 was causing the computer to crash.
>
>The following month the man received a letter from the credit card
>company claiming that his check had bounced and that he now owed them
>$0.00 and unless he sent a check by return of post they would be taking
>steps to recover the debt.
>
>The man, who had been considering buying his wife a computer for her
>birthday, bought her a typewriter instead.
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