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Originally Posted by OldMcDonald
I once got a phone bill (when I was working and had 4 business lines into the house), for somewhere north of $6000 for one month (all 4 lines). Normal bill was around $300.
It showed local usage of approx 180,000 minutes, billed at something like 2.5/minute (but because it was local didn't show who I supposedly called).
At first I feared that somehow I had managed to leave all 4 lines connected to the internet (back in the dial-up days), 24/7 for the whole month....
Luckily as it turned out it was mathematically impossible for me to have that many minutes in one month (4 lines * 31 days * 24 hours * 60 minutes = 178,560)...it took 2 years to get the balance off my bill (I basically told verizon I wasn't paying it under any circumstances, but continued to pay the new charges every month), and eventually they just dropped it off...never got an explanation.
Sure was glad I wasn't paying with Automatic Electronic Funds Transfer every month!
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Once when I was checking out of a hotel in San Francisco, I had a similar experience. When the woman behind the desk printed my bill for the week, it was over 500 pages -- all in-room movie charges. Since I had been in meetings all week, I hadn't even had a chance to turn the TV on. I was worried that I might have trouble convincing the hotel management of that fact until we determined that I would have had to watch several dozen movies at a time, 24 hours a day, while I was in the hotel to rack up the bill that printed out. I never did find out what happened. 
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