Amsterdam man receives $7 billion surprise

[Robbien]

Source: NEWS10

Amsterdam resident John Garcia went to a local grocery store to deposit a check and walked away with quite a surprise; a $7,800,000,000 surprise, to be exact.

Garcia recalled the moment for NEWS10.

"She said ‘You're John Garcia?' I said, ‘Yeah,' When she handed me the receipt for my deposit, I could understand why she didn't think I was who I was. I was a billionaire. The richest man in Amsterdam," he joked.

Garcia was a billionaire for exactly one hour and 22 minutes after a clerk at the First Niagara bank inside the Price Chopper on Route 30 in Amsterdam made an error, entering Garcia's account number in the spot where the amount should have gone.

Garcia ran home to tell his wife.

"She said, you're not a billionaire, you're a custodian, you clean toilets," he said.

Read more: http://www.wten.com/Global/story.asp?S=10004020

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His reaction:

"First of all, if I'd walk into a bank and say I'd like to withdraw $7 billion, somebody's going to look at me funny. I'd look at me funny. So, and not to mention I'm pretty sure there's a list out there of billionaires, and I'm not one of them," he told NEWS10.

[opihimoimoi]

1. SlumDam Billionaire for 1 hour

[Historic NY]

2. Easy come, easy go.

[DFW]

3. He should at least have demanded the interest

$7.8 billion at 1.5% yearly is still $13,000 for an hour. It may not get you to the Forbes richest 400, but it'll buy you a nice dinner somewhere--like Honolulu.