It Only Cost $27,000 For One Fan To Watch The Bears Beat The Lions This Season
Top Ten Nominee tipped me off to this story last night. Apparently some guy paid $27,000 to watch a Bears game on his laptop while he was on a cruise. Here’s the story:
On November 2, Wayne Burdick (not pictured) was aboard a cruise ship in Miami waiting to depart on a Caribbean cruise. While still docked at the port, he set up his laptop and wireless card and accessed his Slingbox device which allowed him to watch a Chicago Bears game via an Internet connection. When the game was over, Burdick closed his computer, embarked on the cruise and returned home to find a bill from AT&T charging him over $27,000 for the three hours of Internet usage. Apparently, AT&T had charged Brudick the international rate for the access. At two cents per kilobyte, the total charge was $27,788.93 for the time spent watching the game.
Supposedly they settled for around $6,000 and eventually dropped it altogether admitting their mistake. At least he got to see the Sex Cannon bring the Bears roaring back from a 10 point deficit and beat the Lions. Unfortunately for Wayne, no amount of money will allow him to see the Sex Cannon play for the Bears again, since he’s no longer going to be a Bear.
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