BoA’s Plan For Solvency

July 15th, 2009 by Jason · 5 Comments · all ur bankz, fail

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Ken Lewis has a plan to save Bank of America.  Read on:

Josh Muszynski swiped his debit card at a gas station to buy a pack of cigarettes. His bank account showed he spent over 23 quadrillion dollars.

He checked his account online a few hours later, expecting to see a couple hundred dollars — but the 17-digit number that rivals even the national debt confronted him.

Muszynski called Bank of America about the string of numbers and a $15 overdraft fee the bank tacked on to his mysterious debt. After two hours on the phone, Muszynski said, the representative on the line had no idea what to say, WMUR-TV reported.

Yes, Bank of America had debited his account for $23,148,855,308,184,500. Quadrillion is the one after trillion. And then, as if that were not insult enough, tacked on a $15 fee on top of it, as if to say, “Hey buddy, we’ll let this one slide, but try not making purchases of sixteen hundred times the national debt in the future”

Now, clearly, BoA had to remove that charge, but one wonders if Ken wanted to see black numbers on the balance sheet so badly that he picked a random account number out of a hat and had that guy charged an outrageous amount of money (plus fifteen bucks, because), on purpose.  And hey, eventually they’re going to hit someone who doesn’t keep up with their account so well, and when they do, Ken Lewis is BACK, baby!

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