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Man E-Mails Drawing of Spider to Pay Bills, Becomes Internet Sensation

by Dan Reilly on November 20, 2008 at 10:22 AM


Who knew paying bills could actually be fun? We certainly didn't, but an Australian man changed our minds after he attempted to settle a bill with a drawing of a spider. The prank has since become hugely popular on the Web.

When a utility company rep told David Thorne that he owed them $233.95, he emailed her back with the above drawing of a seven-legged spider, saying that he valued it at exactly the same amount. When the rep refused the payment, he asked her to "return" the drawing, then said it wasn't his because he would've drawn it with eight legs. Thorne continued the correspondence and posted it on his Web site, 27bslash6.com, where he has plenty of other humorous posts.

News of the prank spread and Thorne's site crashed after receiving hundreds of thousands of hits. He's since said that the utility company rep thought it was hilarious, and somebody purchased the spider drawing on eBay for $10,000 without any intent to pay up. You can check out the entire hilarious correspondence here. [From: news.au.com]

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