[Bigg Red]

"I thought this money doesn't belong to me. Something must be wrong."


Funny, she doesn't say that about her monthly "child allowance". What is that all about? That money must be coming from somewhere. I guess they pay her to have kids and no husband.

About 15 years ago, I received a notice from my bank saying that I had an overdraft because I had written a check for something like 1.9 million and I had a balance of only 1.7 million in my account. The actual balance was more in the neighborhood of $250. I never did figure that one out. By the time I received the notice and called, they had figured it out -- or so they claimed!

[WyldKard]

Ummm..does anyone else find it weird that this money didn't actually exist? Where did 93 billion kronors come from? Was it actually money that got pulled from other accounts? Where they actually in circulation, or were they so many numbers that just magically poofed into being when some datamonkey punched the zero button a little too hard?

Kinda scary, that maybe you can just "make" money like that now..

[Prodigal Son]

When Gun-Britt Marklund checked her bank account to see whether her monthly child allowance check had arrived from the Swedish government...

What, was she married to Sweden or did she just sleep around a lot?

[Tallguy]

Marklund's hunch was correct. On Monday, she informed her bank of the inflated child allowance payment -- twice the size of Sweden's defense budget -- and the bank acted swiftly.

An employee had punched in a few too many zeros when funneling payments from the social insurance office into Marklund's account, ICA Bank spokesman Bo Lagergren said.

The Swedish DOD couldn't 'cover' the check, but it's no-problemo for their welfare department! Talk about your screwed-up priorities.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

i would tell my bank only after I got me one of these

[Eternal_Bear]

Hey Moose can't you get anything right? The sniper said 10 million not 10 billion. Sheesh!

[Mulder]

Her account showed a balance of more than 93 billion kronor (US$10 billion) on Sunday.

Take the money and get the hell out of that worthless socialist state ASAP.