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I did not think it was possible, but I have found an industrial video to rival in boredom the famed "Timber Bridge Inspection."
You thought your electricity bill was high, but a Georgia woman named Scarlett Hall was billed for a billion. With a B. As listed below, she does get a fifty million dollar early payment discount.
Here's the link to the story. It sounds like the bill was actually delivered, but quickly adjusted to $287.
http://www.popfi.com/2010/10/19/woman-gets-billion-dollar-electric-bill/
Last one out turn off the lights.
[From
Look magazine for August 19, 1958. An ad from "America's Independent Electric Light and Power Companies."]
"Go, Robo-mower, and bring me the shapely form of my next-door neighbor's sunbathing wife!"
[From
Life magazine for March 27 1944. Two scans, top and bottom.]
Yes, natural resources will never run out, power will be "too cheap to meter," the utilities love you, and winged cherubs will attend milady's bath.
Category: Authorities and Experts, Boredom, Utilities