Courtesy of Cambridge News comes this story of a shocking electricity bill.

British Electricity provider N-Power sent a Cambridge woman a bill recently for just over stg£90million (US$ 177million). This was bemusing to her because she has availed of a pre-paid electricity meter. It would seem that for the woman to have run up such a bill would have taken over 1900 years.

As an aside, the Cambridge News article also higlights a recent survey from British website www.moneysupermarket.com:

 A survey last month showed 34 per cent of people have spotted an error in a utility or credit card bill in the past 12 months, while 17 per cent were overcharged during the past quarter.

The survey by financial website moneysupermarket.com reveals half of us don’t bother to check bills.