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Penn Men Attempt Texting Record, Get $26K Bill

by Terrence O'Brien on April 23, 2009 at 03:53 PM

PA Men Attempt Texting Record, Slapped with $26k Bill
A couple of very bored Pennsylvania men decided to gun for the world record number of text messages sent in a month, and, over the next four weeks, went about clogging the airwaves with 217,000 SMS messages. The pair, Nick Andes, 29, and Doug Klinger, 30, were a little shocked, however, when T-Mobile went about clogging Andes's mail box with a $26,000 cell phone bill.

Despite having an unlimited texting plan, Andes was hit with a giant (physically and fiscally) bill, packed in a box that cost the provider almost $30 to ship. Andes panicked and contacted T-Mobile, which later told the Associated Press that it had reimbursed Andes's account and was currently trying to get to the bottom of the charges.

Andes and Klinger have yet to hear back from the Guinness Book of World Records in regards to their feat. For our part, we're still wondering how on Earth the pair managed to send so many messages (even if most of them were one-word long) without losing their jobs, or their wives. [From: Daily News/AP and Post Chronicle]

Tags: cell phone bill, CellPhoneBill, guiness book of world records, GuinessBookOfWorldRecords, records, sms, superlatives, text messaging, texting, TextMessaging, top, world record, WorldRecord

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