MIAMI (Associated Press / The Huffington Post) — A South Florida woman got a shock when she opened a recent cell phone bill: she owed $201,000. It was no mistake. Celina Aarons has her two deaf-mute brothers on her plan. They communicate by texting and use their phones to watch videos. Normally, that’s not a problem. Aarons has the appropriate data plan and her bill is about $175. But her brothers spent two weeks in Canada and Aarons never changed to an international plan. Her brothers sent over 2,000 texts and also downloaded videos, sometimes racking up $2,000 in data charges. When Aarons read the bill — all 43 pages of it — she realized she owed $201,005.44. “I was freaking out,” Aarons told the news station WSVN. “I was shaking, crying, I couldn’t even talk that much on the phone. I was like my life is over!” Thankfully, T-mobile agreed to lower the bill to a more manageable $2,500 and gave Aarons six months to pay up, WSVN reports. In 2006, a Malaysian man reportedly received a phone bill totaling $218 trillion for calls made on a number he thought he had disconnected after his father’s death.
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