US Gov hit with gargantuan Hurricane Katrina damages claim
Mikey 9 comments
The US Federal Government just has been hit with a bunch of Hurricane Katrina damages claims, 498,000 of them.
The total of these damages claims, is a staggering 3 quadrillion dollars, or $US3,014,170,389,176,410 to be exact. The only time you hear of numbers that big is when they are being spoken by a certain mad scientist with his pinky raised to his mouth.
Not much is known about the person who filed the claim, but it is being taken very seriously.
Full story.
Rodney
Thursday 10th January 2008 | 02:41 PMSorry, should have put in last comment: that's an average payout of $6,052,550,982.28 (6 billion) per claimant... good luck with that one, tiger...
Jake
Thursday 10th January 2008 | 04:00 PMWhat a staggeringly amazing number!
andrew
Thursday 10th January 2008 | 05:17 PMyeah well as the saying goes only in America....
Anders
Thursday 10th January 2008 | 08:47 PMI wonder if they were originally doing the maths on a hand held calculator before they realised it won't allow 20 digits LOL
Ben
Friday 11th January 2008 | 08:16 AMI think the idea is that by the time this gets to trial and gets paid, inflation and a lowering dollar will make the actual value about $6,052.55
Rodney
Friday 11th January 2008 | 08:14 PMLet me go offtopic for 1 second here. Think about how HUGE that number is - really think about it. Then think that if that number was MASSIVELY bigger (200 digits big)... then THIS GUY
https://rustylime.com/show_article.php?id=1053
could calculate the 13th root of it IN HIS HEAD.
That just amazes me!
Altoid
Saturday 12th January 2008 | 11:33 AMYes, that math wiz should be hired by the gov't to examine each case, determine the correct amount warranted by the individual criteria, then take them out to lunch and calculate the tip to the 13th root while he's at it.
That claim is taking advantage of a system that took advantage of them. It's more about personal insult than property damage.
Jake
Tuesday 15th January 2008 | 12:10 PMI think they should just bite the bullett here and call the end $ amount a "Katrillion dollars"
Rodney
Thursday 10th January 2008 | 02:38 PMIt's an idiotic claim and as such, will be treated accordingly. Clearly it's substantially higher than the potential earnings and property values which were lost, which is what such claims are based on.