# $0.00 **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [May 30, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120 "2003-05-30T13:27:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/1 "2003-05-30T13:27:40Z")
In March, 1999, a man living in Kandos (near Mudgee in NSW) received a bill for his as yet unused gas line stating that he owed $0.00. He ignored it and threw it away. In April he received another bill and threw that one away too. The following month the gas company sent him a very nasty note stating they were going to cancel his gas line if he didn’t send them $0.00 by return mail. He called them, talked to them, and they said it was a computer error and they would take care of it. The following month he decided that it was about time that he tried out the troublesome gas line figuring that if there as usage on the account it would put an end to this ridiculous predicament. However, when he went to use the gas, it had been cut off. He called the gas company who apologised 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 them the previous day the latest bill was yet another mistake, so 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. This bill also stated 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 beat the company at their own game and mailed them a cheque for $0.00. The computer duly processed his account and returned a statement to the effect that he now owed the gas company nothing at all. A week later, the manager of the Mudgee branch of the Westpac Banking Corporation called our hapless friend and asked him what he was doing writing cheque for $0.00. After a lengthy explanation the bank manager replied that the $0.00 cheque had caused their cheque processing software to fail. The bank could therefore not process ANY cheques they had received from ANY of their customers that day because the cheque for $0.00 had caused the computer to crash. The following month the man received a letter from the gas company claiming that his cheque has bounced and that he now owed them $0.00 and unless he sent a cheque by return mail they would take immediate steps to recover the debt. At this point, the man decided to file a debt harassment claim against the gas company. It took him nearly 2 hours to convince the clerks at the local courthouse that he was not joking. They subsequently assisted him in the drafting of statements which were considered substantive evidence of the aggravation and difficulties he had been forced to endure during this debacle. The matter was heard in the Magistrate’s Court in Mudgee and the outcome was this: The gas company was ordered to: (1) Immediately rectify their computerised accounts system or show cause, within 10 days, why the matter should not be referred to a higher court for consideration under company Law. (2) Pay the bank dishonour fees incurred by the man. (3) Pay the bank dishonour fees incurred by all the Westpac clients whose cheques had been bounced on the day our friend’s had been. (4) Pay the claimant’s court costs; and (5) Pay the claimant a total of $1500 per month for the 5 month period March to July inclusive as compensation for the aggravation they had caused their client to suffer. And all this over $0.00. This story can also be viewed on the ABC website. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/2 "2003-05-30T13:30:44Z")
Whoa… thats crazy ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/3 "2003-05-30T13:32:56Z")
that is so funny! ive just e-mailed to the whole office - hee hee 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/4 "2003-05-30T13:38:47Z")
They were bringing the main Gas line across from the west to the east side of Ireland (Limerick to Dublin). They were bringing it through this farmers field, and the farmer asked them if they would give him free gas for life if he slipped them 100 pounds. The work guys agreed. They said they’d attach a line to the main line and run it to his house. The farmer paid them and they set it up, but told him not to try and use it until the main gas line was switched on, so no one would realise he was syphoning it. So about a month later he was in the village and heard that the gas was connected, so he went home and tried his gas cooker. It worked. He had free gas for life. About 2 months later the gas coming to his house stopped. Obviously he couldn’t ring anyone about it cos of the way he obtained it, so eventually he decided to go out into the field and dig down to where the line would have attached to the mains line, to see if he could see a problem. He got a shovel and went out into the field, and started digging. About three feet down he hit the end of his pipe, attached to a small gas cylinder. True story. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/5 "2003-05-30T13:58:26Z")
lmao this is nuts! A lot out of nothing! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/6 "2003-05-30T14:07:39Z")
hahaha they are both quite funny, expensive gas bottle that is!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/7 "2003-05-30T14:25:06Z")
roflmfao ok that’s the funniest comp error story I’ve ever heard. Thank you so much for sharing that. You’ve lightened my day. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/8 "2003-05-30T14:28:15Z")
Yeah, computer errors are funny… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/9 "2003-05-30T14:30:58Z")
although, technicaly theres no such thing as a computer error. its always down to human error. We got a receptionist at work who makes loads of typos in her e-mails (like me), but she always blames the machine. Grr… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/10 "2003-05-30T14:54:21Z")
lol… you are correct sir… there is technicaly only human error or broken hardware/software… there is no computer error parsey. good catch ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 2:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/11 "2003-05-30T14:56:30Z")
i wish my receptionist was a good catch… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/12 "2003-05-30T15:19:35Z")
_laughs_ Nice one orange. I liked both stories. 😃 😛 both very good. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/13 "2003-05-30T15:32:06Z")
very funny - all the office loved it! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/14 "2003-05-30T15:55:59Z")
Both great stories :thumb: - Soul :s: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/15 "2003-05-30T15:56:02Z")
haha, a lot of computer error in that one :). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/16 "2003-05-30T15:59:02Z")
I wouldn’t be surprised if those computers they were using were old crappy ones… Mudgee is a country town and so I guess Kandos is as well… My mummy is going to Mudgee soon in fact to sell sell sell $$$$$$ But that story is just too stupid… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 5:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/17 "2003-05-30T17:30:58Z")
haha, that’s great. It’s funny to see how these big companies can have such errors and not even know. I also liked the last story - I would be plenty upset If I was that farmer! hahahaha ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/18 "2003-05-30T18:20:06Z")
eskimo farmer ![](http://www.midtel.net/~cjworeth/dad.jpg) Ha! :beam: go Tuknuk! Rev ![](http://www.aulman.com/rev.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/19 "2003-05-30T18:23:29Z")
lol. thats funny. and the second one is just too funny too. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120/20 "2003-05-30T18:31:53Z")
I was going to say, it’s been a while since I got a Tuknuk joke mr Rev - I was starting to get a bit worried 🙂 [Next page](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/0-00/22120.md?page=2)