Just when you thought your electric, phone, water, and gas bills were ridiculous!

If you thought your electric, phone, water, and gas bills were the worst to be found, think again. 1300 residents in Weatherford, Texas, recently received utility bills from the Dataprose company that reached into the billions! According to local news station KHOU 11:

" Penny Dawson thought her utility bill was getting a bit high. But nothing prepared her for a $24 billion bill. Dawson was one of about 1,300 Weatherford utility customers who received billion-dollar bills in the mail this week... Dawson said she opened her bill on Tuesday to find she had been charged $3.66, had a deposit of $71,222,200,601 and had a total amount due of $24,200,700,004."It's the funniest thing I have ever seen," she said. Her utility bills normally average $250."

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