Seriously, crazy. Josh Muszynski, a guy living in New Hampshire, went to a gas station to buy a pack of smokes. He swiped his depit card at the register and went on his way.
A few hours later, Muszynski checks his Bank of America account online and has a $15 overdraft fee for the pack of smokes. Turns out, he was charged $23,148,855,308,184,500 for the cigarettes. THAT IS OVER A QUADRILLION DOLLARS! To put that into perspective, the full on national debt is $11 trillion. So this is way more than that!
Anyway, he got it all sorted out, so that's good. But still, pretty funny. And how the hell does that happen anyway? Can you even type that many numbers into a card swiping machine? And if you can, shouldn't the machines then have a function with a pop up window that says "Trillion. Are you sure?!" Because really. That's a very large mistake.