September 18, 2024 • 16 mins
A man found out he's been paying his neighbor's Electric bills for 18 years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One oh seven nine KBP I and your show time
for Stupid Stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop. Yeah, all stop. Yes you are stuper Stories brought
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
By Good Times Burder and Frozen Custard. It's their birthday
on Saturday. They're gonna be thirty seven years old. They're
celebrating with one dollar Frozen Custard, all kinds of other
great deals going to.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You almost free. I'm all free, but the dollar nowadays
is yeah, free dollar Custard.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're gonna be out at the one on one hundred
and twentieth Avenue in Tharnton from noon until two on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We got a bunch of tickets for that too.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yes, and I believe it's like every I don't know,
thirty minutes, fifteen minutes something.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, So on that all right, stupa Stories got some
good ones to see. Boy. A little flex on Taco Bell.
Taco Bell has a little Taco influence. Somehow they managed
to move National Taco Day from October fourth to the
first Tuesday in October, Oh, just because Taco Bell said
we want here. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They do really have the monopoly on the on most
things Taco I mean they were able to get that
court just to throw out Taco Tuesday as a trademark altogether.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, I stole it from Taco John's, just like, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now they're flexing there like we're moving it to
a Tuesday in October.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know that's a flex man, You know whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We still love you, Taco John's, even though you're like
third tier.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right right hanging there, Rico Burrito. Uh. Look, there's a
story about Delta flight attendants not allowed to wear sagging
pants that reveal their underwear. By rule, their undergarments must
not be visible. So Delta is trying to throw that
out there. Meanwhile, in the real world, how about this
story about Delta Cabin pressure issues on a Delta flight
(01:51):
causes bloody noses and bloody ears from passengers. And you
read this story. It's about a Salt Lake City tall
to Portland, Oregon flight and apparently they lost cabin pressure
pressurization and it caused people to bleed from their ears
and their noses. Like this dude. Apparently he was humped
(02:15):
over and his wife was looking at him. He's got
his hands around his head but around his ears. He
leans up and he's bleeding from both his ears. Ohh man,
it looks like a lot of the crew have the
same thing happened a lot of the you know people
on board, So I would worry more about your planes
and you know, pressure issues over you know, whether we
(02:39):
can see your underwear.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Just more reasons not to fly.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I swear every day. There's something uh a maina Florida.
He's been arrested. He's been arrested for something kind of cool.
He was keeping two alligators inside his backyard swimming pool.
Come on, I'm sure they liked it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And Florida that should be legal. Yeah, yeah, I know, man,
outside of Florida, I understand. But in Florida, that's right.
People gonna have a problem with that. In Wyoming, I
understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
However, in Florida, I mean, hey, come out and see
Wally and Mollie. I think that's kind of cute. Whatever.
Cop in San Francisco dressed up like a cartoon chicken
to try to cast drivers for not stopping for pedestrians
(03:29):
and crosswalks. No word as to whether it worked or not.
I feel like that's a little much. Whatever. How about
this story? This is pretty funny. A Miami Beach corvette
owner faced an unusual situation when he discovered an intruder
trapped inside of his car, asking for him to help
(03:53):
get out of the car. He was locked inside the
car because security system, but he could figure out how
to get out. So how funny is that a dude
trying to steal your car then ends up asking for
your help. I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Does seem like a weird security though, Like, I don't.
I don't think you'd want to keep them in your car.
It seems like you start jacking stuff up in there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
His name is Ravish Rabin Drainoff. That's a crazy last name.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What was that first name?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Ravish Ravish r A V E s h Okay, his
last name r A b I N d r A
n a U t h. I'm going with Rabin Drainoff anyway,
he says to this Miami Beats corvette owner, He's like, hey, hey,
can I get out? He was heart of asking this
Mike Solano, who was recording the incident on the cell phone.
(04:44):
He said, no, you can't get out, and we call
the cops. So he was done that. He would return
to his car after breakfast on Monday morning and found
this dude sitting inside of his corvette pleading for help
to get out. Miami Beats police arrived at the scene
arrest of the dumb ass, who now faces burglary charges.
Solano I was surprised he managed to break into the vehicle,
(05:07):
but he was unable to start it up because the
car security system, the car's electrical components don't function without
the keys. He didn't know there's a manual door release
under the seat, so he was stuck inside of it.
And this dumb ass didn't even know how to get out.
He probably could have googled it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So that door is like an electric release sort of thing,
like button the door pops up on.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
The leck, and this dummy didn't know there was a
manual release under the seat and he was stuck in there.
That'd be so awesome, wouldn't that be great to see
the guy and you just say, ooh, you were so busted,
oh so much so do you help him get out
of the car?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, I'm waiting for the cops to show up. It's
a high priced bait car.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Is what it is. It is.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I used to love those bait car videos too. The
guy he's stuck in there and oh yeah, or.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The bike the electrocutes people when they steal it. Good man,
they would light them up. They'd be pal pedal, pedal, pedal,
and you hear them just get lit out the oh,
just in the background of screaming like, ah, that was
the best. I'm a full believer in booby traps. I
love that stuff. I'll be like, yeah, you can get out,
hold on, let me get baseball back. Twenty three year
(06:25):
old man in Illinois named Javon Owens. He was charged
the first degree attempted murder. He stabbed another man with
a butter knife during an argument over a PB and
j The witness says that Jayvon and the other men
were arguing over a peanut, butter and jelly sandwich and
(06:45):
not cleaning up after one of them made it. Apparently
made the sandwich leaving peanut butter and jelly on the counter.
You do not leave peanut butter and jelly on the counter.
So apparently things got violent. That's when Javon stabbed the
other guy five times with a butter knife. Oh, I
feel like that's accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
A butter knife does not have a point at the end.
You know what I'm saying. It is round and therefore
hard to stab somebody with but he did. He got
him in his lower back, his hip, his right armpit
owl and the back of his right shoulder bone and
then the right side of his collarbold he was getting
him anyway. The witness drove the victim to the hospital.
(07:25):
Stab wounds punctured in testing. Sounds like he's gonna be okay.
Javon can face thirty years in prison over a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich. Damn.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So that was nice that he drove his roommate or
the guy involved to the hospital. Did he eat the
PP and J before or on the way?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, it doesn't say. I'm sure he ate it on
the way. The wheel, the sacrifices made for that pbmj
on on the sandwiches the best peanut buttered jelly sandwich
I ever ate.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Lucky, I'm driving you to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Look stopped bleeding on my interior. Seymour, Indiana woman was unarrested.
Listen to this story. This is so crazy. This is
completely true. It's not made up. This woman got unarrested
and left in the parking lot of a jail. So
Seymour police were called to an alley and apparently this
(08:25):
woman wasn't doing very well when police got there. She
was slurring her words, couldn't stand up. There's half drank
bottle of whiskey hanging out of her purse. So they
arrested her for disorder conduct and then they drove her
nineteen miles to the Jackson County Jail. So an officer
brought the woman into jail. The jail staff gave her
(08:48):
a breathalyzer. The woman blew aero point two five five.
The jail said they wouldn't take her.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, yeah, I didn't know that was an.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I didn't either, but it's because it was too high.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
There was too high and they didn't want to deal
with a Yeah. I feel like they take drunk people
all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I know that. In the report, he said, the names
is called to check her out and her only ailment
at the time was she was too drunk. The woman
refused to go to the emergency room in the hospital,
so the next stop was the Jackson County Jail. When
they arrived at the jail, the jail commander explained to
the Seymour Council what happened next. He said, we wouldn't
(09:36):
take this woman because her level was too high. We
gotta wait for the alcoho level to come down. My
staff refused it. The police officer takes this person. He's
got to sit in a parking lot with her. Yeah,
so he's out. So the jail refused. Listen to this,
(09:58):
So he's got to sit in the parking lot this
woman because the jail refused to take her. Now listen
to this. The next part is where your jaw's gonna
hit the floor. He gets a call right about five
minutes later that says change of plans. That woman is unarrested.
(10:19):
So he is sitting at the jail because the jail
wouldn't take her. This woman blew a zero point two
five to five. He gets a call from his captain
saying that woman is unarrested, and he says, what do
we do? Leave her in the parking lot of the jail.
And they did. They really they left yeah. So wow,
(10:48):
So the jail staff all right, So the cop lees her,
I'm gonna leave her in the parking lot of the jail.
So the jail staff knows they have a duty to intervene,
so they go out there. They call this person, the cab,
the family and they sit outside of the jail until
somebody that knew this woman can come and pick her up.
(11:10):
She was so drunk nobody would take her. That is insane.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This reminds me of the dorms in nineteen ninety six
and I had a buddy who got and as a buddy,
I've known this kid from maybe two weeks. It's brand
new to school. He gets a DUI and the cops
don't want to deal with him, so they're like, you
know him well enough, and I'm like, sure, why not?
And they're like, all right, he's now your responsibility. We're
not going to arrest him. But I had decigned my
(11:38):
name and basically say I will not let him out
of the dorm room.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh hilarious.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So I was in charge of him and I was
like you all right, He's like, I just want to
go to bed, that's all. But same sort of thing
where it's just let's just pass them off to somebody
else because we don't want to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That is insane to me. That's crazy. Well, she is unarrested.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You've got to go do something else. So I'd arrest
that woman.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Looks, looks to the right, shrugged and shrug you want
arrested bye all right? And last, how awful will this be?
Imagine how frustrated you'd be at the power company. You
see you somebody else's bill for one month, let alone
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somebody else's bill for more than eighteen years. So a
man in California named Ken Wilson lives an apartment complex
and he recently discovered he's been charged for his neighbor's
usage and not his. And this man went through extreme
like scenarios. He went through an incredible amount of work
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to figure this out and find this out. So this
guy lives by himself, and he'd been trying to save money.
Energy costs are up everywhere. Go figure in California. Oh,
no surprise, they're up more than they already even where
else in the country. Why because the left. Anyway, He's
been trying to figure out his electrical use because power
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bill is always insane to him. So he bought a
device that tells him how many watts his appliances give off.
It also tracks his daily energy consumption to the exact number.
This is how bad and frustrated this guy was. Oh okay, right,
He's been paying hundreds of dollars a month for electric bill.
He doesn't understand it. He's been trying to keep his
cost down. He's been cutting back, and nothing he did
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seem to matter. He would look at his meter. Nothing
he was getting on his bill matched up to his meter.
So he called his utility company PG and E. Isn't
that the company in Aaron Brockovich, Oh, I don't know. Anyway,
he called the utility company PG and E. At the
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end of it. I think that's the company at the
end of it. Anyway, they sent out a worker and
listen to this. The worker confirmed there was a problem.
His apartment was linked to the wrong meter. So he's
been paying somebody else's bill for eighteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh crazy, so has he?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So they so it's flipped. Right, he was paying his neighbors.
His neighbors was paying his His neighbor has two kids.
So imagine a family of four versus a single dude
in an apartment, right, and imagine the electric bill thereafter.
You got a family of four all right, with kids,
(14:41):
using a lot of power, versus a single guy who's
been real just relentless on every like, you know, just kill.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What he was using, turning everything off everything.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Now here's the best part PG, and he apologized for
the error and said, quote, they regret any inconvenience. You
know what they're gonna do for him? What's that? They
said that the correct usage will be reflected on his
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next bill, and thanks so much for bringing it to
their attention.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So no back paying.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
There's no plan on conversating him for all those years,
eighteen years he's been paying the wrong the wrong electric bill. Damn.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So are they going to notify the other family, because
this family's probably been like, wow, we ran the air
conditioning non stop in our bill's sixty bucks, right, like,
they're probably using a lot of power. You want, it's free,
it's cheap, we can afford it. Got a bitcoin mining system?
Right Then come next month when they do the exact
(15:54):
same thing, three hundred dollars which.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
One of you kids left a hair dryer on. That's insane,
isn't it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I feel like they should have I mean, I guess
the power company has to get their money, but I
feel like you have to go back and hey, here's.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What we're gonna do for you. The correct amount is
going to be reflected on your next bial. Thank you
so much. Having a great day, what well, what I mean?
I guess congratulations on finding the error, but as far
as conversation.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Goes, probably doesn't make you feel any better to know
you've been saying that much for eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh my god, Oh I have you pissed man,
One oh seven nine KBP I and your show time
for Stupid Stories.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Stop. Yeah, all stop. Yes you are stuper Stories brought
to you.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
By Good Times Burder and Frozen Custard. It's their birthday
on Saturday. They're gonna be thirty seven years old. They're
celebrating with one dollar Frozen Custard, all kinds of other
great deals going to.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
You almost free. I'm all free, but the dollar nowadays
is yeah, free dollar Custard.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
We're gonna be out at the one on one hundred
and twentieth Avenue in Tharnton from noon until two on Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We got a bunch of tickets for that too.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Yes, and I believe it's like every I don't know,
thirty minutes, fifteen minutes something.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, So on that all right, stupa Stories got some
good ones to see. Boy. A little flex on Taco Bell.
Taco Bell has a little Taco influence. Somehow they managed
to move National Taco Day from October fourth to the
first Tuesday in October, Oh, just because Taco Bell said
we want here. Man.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
They do really have the monopoly on the on most
things Taco I mean they were able to get that
court just to throw out Taco Tuesday as a trademark altogether.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
No, I stole it from Taco John's, just like, oh.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
And now they're flexing there like we're moving it to
a Tuesday in October.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
I know that's a flex man, You know whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
We still love you, Taco John's, even though you're like
third tier.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right right hanging there, Rico Burrito. Uh. Look, there's a
story about Delta flight attendants not allowed to wear sagging
pants that reveal their underwear. By rule, their undergarments must
not be visible. So Delta is trying to throw that
out there. Meanwhile, in the real world, how about this
story about Delta Cabin pressure issues on a Delta flight
(01:51):
causes bloody noses and bloody ears from passengers. And you
read this story. It's about a Salt Lake City tall
to Portland, Oregon flight and apparently they lost cabin pressure
pressurization and it caused people to bleed from their ears
and their noses. Like this dude. Apparently he was humped
(02:15):
over and his wife was looking at him. He's got
his hands around his head but around his ears. He
leans up and he's bleeding from both his ears. Ohh man,
it looks like a lot of the crew have the
same thing happened a lot of the you know people
on board, So I would worry more about your planes
and you know, pressure issues over you know, whether we
(02:39):
can see your underwear.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Just more reasons not to fly.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I swear every day. There's something uh a maina Florida.
He's been arrested. He's been arrested for something kind of cool.
He was keeping two alligators inside his backyard swimming pool.
Come on, I'm sure they liked it.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
And Florida that should be legal. Yeah, yeah, I know, man,
outside of Florida, I understand. But in Florida, that's right.
People gonna have a problem with that. In Wyoming, I
understand it.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
However, in Florida, I mean, hey, come out and see
Wally and Mollie. I think that's kind of cute. Whatever.
Cop in San Francisco dressed up like a cartoon chicken
to try to cast drivers for not stopping for pedestrians
(03:29):
and crosswalks. No word as to whether it worked or not.
I feel like that's a little much. Whatever. How about
this story? This is pretty funny. A Miami Beach corvette
owner faced an unusual situation when he discovered an intruder
trapped inside of his car, asking for him to help
(03:53):
get out of the car. He was locked inside the
car because security system, but he could figure out how
to get out. So how funny is that a dude
trying to steal your car then ends up asking for
your help. I think that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Does seem like a weird security though, Like, I don't.
I don't think you'd want to keep them in your car.
It seems like you start jacking stuff up in there.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
His name is Ravish Rabin Drainoff. That's a crazy last name.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
What was that first name?
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Ravish Ravish r A V E s h Okay, his
last name r A b I N d r A
n a U t h. I'm going with Rabin Drainoff anyway,
he says to this Miami Beats corvette owner, He's like, hey, hey,
can I get out? He was heart of asking this
Mike Solano, who was recording the incident on the cell phone.
(04:44):
He said, no, you can't get out, and we call
the cops. So he was done that. He would return
to his car after breakfast on Monday morning and found
this dude sitting inside of his corvette pleading for help
to get out. Miami Beats police arrived at the scene
arrest of the dumb ass, who now faces burglary charges.
Solano I was surprised he managed to break into the vehicle,
(05:07):
but he was unable to start it up because the
car security system, the car's electrical components don't function without
the keys. He didn't know there's a manual door release
under the seat, so he was stuck inside of it.
And this dumb ass didn't even know how to get out.
He probably could have googled it.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
So that door is like an electric release sort of thing,
like button the door pops up on.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
The leck, and this dummy didn't know there was a
manual release under the seat and he was stuck in there.
That'd be so awesome, wouldn't that be great to see
the guy and you just say, ooh, you were so busted,
oh so much so do you help him get out
of the car?
Speaker 1 (05:47):
No, I'm waiting for the cops to show up. It's
a high priced bait car.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
Is what it is. It is.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I used to love those bait car videos too. The
guy he's stuck in there and oh yeah, or.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
The bike the electrocutes people when they steal it. Good man,
they would light them up. They'd be pal pedal, pedal, pedal,
and you hear them just get lit out the oh,
just in the background of screaming like, ah, that was
the best. I'm a full believer in booby traps. I
love that stuff. I'll be like, yeah, you can get out,
hold on, let me get baseball back. Twenty three year
(06:25):
old man in Illinois named Javon Owens. He was charged
the first degree attempted murder. He stabbed another man with
a butter knife during an argument over a PB and
j The witness says that Jayvon and the other men
were arguing over a peanut, butter and jelly sandwich and
(06:45):
not cleaning up after one of them made it. Apparently
made the sandwich leaving peanut butter and jelly on the counter.
You do not leave peanut butter and jelly on the counter.
So apparently things got violent. That's when Javon stabbed the
other guy five times with a butter knife. Oh, I
feel like that's accomplishment.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
A butter knife does not have a point at the end.
You know what I'm saying. It is round and therefore
hard to stab somebody with but he did. He got
him in his lower back, his hip, his right armpit
owl and the back of his right shoulder bone and
then the right side of his collarbold he was getting
him anyway. The witness drove the victim to the hospital.
(07:25):
Stab wounds punctured in testing. Sounds like he's gonna be okay.
Javon can face thirty years in prison over a peanut
butter and jelly sandwich. Damn.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
So that was nice that he drove his roommate or
the guy involved to the hospital. Did he eat the
PP and J before or on the way?
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Oh, it doesn't say. I'm sure he ate it on
the way. The wheel, the sacrifices made for that pbmj
on on the sandwiches the best peanut buttered jelly sandwich
I ever ate.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Lucky, I'm driving you to the hospital.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Look stopped bleeding on my interior. Seymour, Indiana woman was unarrested.
Listen to this story. This is so crazy. This is
completely true. It's not made up. This woman got unarrested
and left in the parking lot of a jail. So
Seymour police were called to an alley and apparently this
(08:25):
woman wasn't doing very well when police got there. She
was slurring her words, couldn't stand up. There's half drank
bottle of whiskey hanging out of her purse. So they
arrested her for disorder conduct and then they drove her
nineteen miles to the Jackson County Jail. So an officer
brought the woman into jail. The jail staff gave her
(08:48):
a breathalyzer. The woman blew aero point two five five.
The jail said they wouldn't take her.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh, yeah, I didn't know that was an.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
I didn't either, but it's because it was too high.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
There was too high and they didn't want to deal
with a Yeah. I feel like they take drunk people
all the time.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I know that. In the report, he said, the names
is called to check her out and her only ailment
at the time was she was too drunk. The woman
refused to go to the emergency room in the hospital,
so the next stop was the Jackson County Jail. When
they arrived at the jail, the jail commander explained to
the Seymour Council what happened next. He said, we wouldn't
(09:36):
take this woman because her level was too high. We
gotta wait for the alcoho level to come down. My
staff refused it. The police officer takes this person. He's
got to sit in a parking lot with her. Yeah,
so he's out. So the jail refused. Listen to this,
(09:58):
So he's got to sit in the parking lot this
woman because the jail refused to take her. Now listen
to this. The next part is where your jaw's gonna
hit the floor. He gets a call right about five
minutes later that says change of plans. That woman is unarrested.
(10:19):
So he is sitting at the jail because the jail
wouldn't take her. This woman blew a zero point two
five to five. He gets a call from his captain
saying that woman is unarrested, and he says, what do
we do? Leave her in the parking lot of the jail.
And they did. They really they left yeah. So wow,
(10:48):
So the jail staff all right, So the cop lees her,
I'm gonna leave her in the parking lot of the jail.
So the jail staff knows they have a duty to intervene,
so they go out there. They call this person, the cab,
the family and they sit outside of the jail until
somebody that knew this woman can come and pick her up.
(11:10):
She was so drunk nobody would take her. That is insane.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
This reminds me of the dorms in nineteen ninety six
and I had a buddy who got and as a buddy,
I've known this kid from maybe two weeks. It's brand
new to school. He gets a DUI and the cops
don't want to deal with him, so they're like, you
know him well enough, and I'm like, sure, why not?
And they're like, all right, he's now your responsibility. We're
not going to arrest him. But I had decigned my
(11:38):
name and basically say I will not let him out
of the dorm room.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Oh hilarious.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
So I was in charge of him and I was
like you all right, He's like, I just want to
go to bed, that's all. But same sort of thing
where it's just let's just pass them off to somebody
else because we don't want to deal with them.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
That is insane to me. That's crazy. Well, she is unarrested.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
You've got to go do something else. So I'd arrest
that woman.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Looks, looks to the right, shrugged and shrug you want
arrested bye all right? And last, how awful will this be?
Imagine how frustrated you'd be at the power company. You
see you somebody else's bill for one month, let alone
(12:26):
somebody else's bill for more than eighteen years. So a
man in California named Ken Wilson lives an apartment complex
and he recently discovered he's been charged for his neighbor's
usage and not his. And this man went through extreme
like scenarios. He went through an incredible amount of work
(12:50):
to figure this out and find this out. So this
guy lives by himself, and he'd been trying to save money.
Energy costs are up everywhere. Go figure in California. Oh,
no surprise, they're up more than they already even where
else in the country. Why because the left. Anyway, He's
been trying to figure out his electrical use because power
(13:13):
bill is always insane to him. So he bought a
device that tells him how many watts his appliances give off.
It also tracks his daily energy consumption to the exact number.
This is how bad and frustrated this guy was. Oh okay, right,
He's been paying hundreds of dollars a month for electric bill.
He doesn't understand it. He's been trying to keep his
cost down. He's been cutting back, and nothing he did
(13:36):
seem to matter. He would look at his meter. Nothing
he was getting on his bill matched up to his meter.
So he called his utility company PG and E. Isn't
that the company in Aaron Brockovich, Oh, I don't know. Anyway,
he called the utility company PG and E. At the
(13:56):
end of it. I think that's the company at the
end of it. Anyway, they sent out a worker and
listen to this. The worker confirmed there was a problem.
His apartment was linked to the wrong meter. So he's
been paying somebody else's bill for eighteen years.
Speaker 1 (14:15):
Oh crazy, so has he?
Speaker 2 (14:19):
So they so it's flipped. Right, he was paying his neighbors.
His neighbors was paying his His neighbor has two kids.
So imagine a family of four versus a single dude
in an apartment, right, and imagine the electric bill thereafter.
You got a family of four all right, with kids,
(14:41):
using a lot of power, versus a single guy who's
been real just relentless on every like, you know, just kill.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
What he was using, turning everything off everything.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Now here's the best part PG, and he apologized for
the error and said, quote, they regret any inconvenience. You
know what they're gonna do for him? What's that? They
said that the correct usage will be reflected on his
(15:14):
next bill, and thanks so much for bringing it to
their attention.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
So no back paying.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
There's no plan on conversating him for all those years,
eighteen years he's been paying the wrong the wrong electric bill. Damn.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
So are they going to notify the other family, because
this family's probably been like, wow, we ran the air
conditioning non stop in our bill's sixty bucks, right, like,
they're probably using a lot of power. You want, it's free,
it's cheap, we can afford it. Got a bitcoin mining system?
Right Then come next month when they do the exact
(15:54):
same thing, three hundred dollars which.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
One of you kids left a hair dryer on. That's insane,
isn't it. It's crazy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
I feel like they should have I mean, I guess
the power company has to get their money, but I
feel like you have to go back and hey, here's.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
What we're gonna do for you. The correct amount is
going to be reflected on your next bial. Thank you
so much. Having a great day, what well, what I mean?
I guess congratulations on finding the error, but as far
as conversation.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Goes, probably doesn't make you feel any better to know
you've been saying that much for eighteen years.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh my god, Oh I have you pissed man,
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