This picture is worth $233.95

[Zombie PotatoHeads]

Too funny not to share. Someone trying to get off an overdue power bill:

From: Jane Gilles
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.19pm
To: David Thorne
Subject: Overdue account

Dear David,
Our records indicate that your account is overdue by the amount of $233.95. If you have already made this payment please contact us within the next 7 days to confirm payment has been applied to your account and is no longer outstanding.

Yours sincerely, Jane Gilles


From: David Thorne
Date: Wednesday 8 Oct 2008 12.37pm
To: Jane Gilles
Subject: Re: Overdue account

Dear Jane,
I do not have any money so am sending you this drawing I did of a spider instead. I value the drawing at $233.95 so trust that this settles the matter.

Regards, David.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847
it continues from there. Well worth the click-n-read.

Gotta admire his chutzpah, or at very least commiserate for the obviously very boring day he was having.

[Wilgrove]

ROFL! Ahh that is epic lulz!

[Barringtonia]

I'd read that before but it still makes me laugh, yet the story continues...

A hand-drawn digital picture of a seven-legged spider which became the subject of a widespread viral email has reportedly sold for $15,000 on eBay.

So, that should easily pay off the $235,

But...

A man who placed the $15,000 winning bid for a photograph of a hand-drawn seven-legged spider says he has no intention of paying up.

What an asshole,

eBay spokeswoman Sian Kennedy said the photograph’s seller could take Mr Munoz to the police for breaking the "contract he made when he won the item".

Yet the original guy is nice enough...

The man behind the drawing, David Thorne, said he was unfazed.

"The internet is a playground and I would not have it any other way," Mr Thorne told ninemsn.

[Wilgrove]

Ebay really should let people who sell their stuff the option to go to the second highest bid if the winner doesn't hold up his end of the contract.

[Neu Leonstein]

I remember that story. I was in Sydney in Risk Management with an Investment Bank and the entire floor was having a collective giggle, secretly hoping some mining company would try to do the same just for the lulz.

[JuNii]

I would've referred the winning bid to the power company...

[Buffett and Colbert]

You've got to admire the fact that this guy's got balls.

[No Names Left Damn It]

This was debunked on Snopes. Sorry to ruin everyone's fun.

[DrunkenDove]

This was debunked on Snopes. Sorry to ruin everyone's fun.

I couldn't find the page. Do you have a link handy?

[No Names Left Damn It]

I couldn't find the page. Do you have a link handy?

Nope, but I will trawl through it in an attempt to find the article.

[DrunkenDove]

I couldn't find the page. Do you have a link handy?

Nope, but I will trawl through it in an attempt to find the article.

Much appreciated.

[Antilon]

Reminds me of a story where an electric utility company shut down a woman's electricity 'cause she was overdue ¢.01 on her bill.