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The world?s most expensive cigarettes

A man in the United States was charged $23 quadrillion (£14 quadrillion) for a packet of cigarettes at his local petrol station.

Josh Muszynski, from New Hampshire, experienced everybody’s nightmare whilst checking his online bank account one afternoon, just hours after paying on his credit card at a petrol station for cigarettes. It appeared the transaction had cost him $23,148,855,308,184,500; many times the US national debt.

He exclaimed: “I thought someone had bought Europe on my credit card’, to his local television station WMUR.

“It is a lot of money. Something I could never, ever afford to pay back. My children could not afford it, grandchildren, nothing like that.”

After racing back to the petrol station, where he was told they were unable to help, Mr Muszynski spent two hours on the phone to the Bank of America. He commented that initially he was met with little understanding, but eventually “they reversed the negative balance fee, which was nice.”

The next morning everything was back to normal with Josh Muszynski’s bank account. No one has attempted to explain how such a mistake could have been made.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .