Holy smokes!

You would think a bank might have some kind of software that would catch an error of this magnitude:

Josh Muszynski of Manchester said he was expecting to see a couple hundred dollars in his account, but instead he was faced with a negative balance far exceeding the national debt -- $23,148,855,308,184,500, WMUR-TV, Manchester, N.H., reported Wednesday.

"If it were to be true that someone actually compromised that money and got that money, they could do some severe damage with that amount of money," he said.

Muszynski said the amount appeared as a charge for a cigarette purchase at a Mobil gas station.

And I thought cigarette taxes were too high here in California...