Billion-dollar phone bill sent to French distillery

The manager of a French distillery in the renowned Burgundy wine-making district was sent a sobering phone bill for 716,414,273 euros (1.02 billion dollars).

"It's so enormous when you see it written down, you can't believe it, so several of us had a look," said Gerard Chaussee, who runs the Maison Vedrenne making various luxury spirits in Nuits-Saint-Georges in eastern France.

"At first I thought it was a forgery, what with all the things you can do with a computer these days. I looked at the bill from every angle," he said.

via ca.news.yahoo.com