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Woman receives $1 billion electric bill

Cobb Energy was able to correct the bill

Updated: Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 6:12 AM MDT
Published : Tuesday, 19 Oct 2010, 6:12 AM MDT

ACWORTH, Ga. (CNN/WXIA) - Talk about an electrical shock. A woman in Acworth, Ga. got a bill from her power company for more than one billion dollars.

Scarlett Hall lives in the home with her husband and three children. They've had high bills before but Hall knew this one totalling $1,016,500,130.09 had to be a mistake.

"Last month I pawned the title to my car to pay the light bill," she said. "Now, I think I might need to start selling organs."

Cobb Energy was able to correct the bill.

"We have an edit system that allows us to take any abnormal bills or oversized bills like that," said Cobb EMC Vice President of Public Relations Sam Kelly. "It brings it to our attention. We're able to catch it. That's how we were able to catch it last week."

The correction brought the bill down to a more reasonable $287.

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