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US woman gets $284 billion electricity bill, wonders if it's her Christmas lights

US woman gets $284 billion electricity bill, wonders if it's her Christmas lights

Pennsylvania electricity bill

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She said 'her eyes popped out' when she saw the bill, just days before Christmas

A woman in Pennsylvania received an electricity bill of a whoppingUS$284 billion, just days before Christmas and sheremembers her eyes popping out.

Identified asMary Horomanski, she brought the issue to notice by narrating the incident to a local newspaper.

Speaking to the newspaper, she said,“We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong."

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Although the entire amount on the bill wasn't due until November 2018, that is almost one year from now but she would have had to pay a monthly minimum of$28,000.

She explained, "It was like, well, I guess we have a year to come up with this billion-dollar bill."

"Myheart was beating fast and that I started to sweat", she added.

Much to her relief, themulti-billion-dollar bill turned out to bea mistake on part of the electricity supply company.

The company representatives checked her meter and admitted their mistake of missing a decimal point in the figure.The bill was supposed to cost $284.46.