A Pennsylvania utility customer got the shock of her life after checking on her monthly electric bill and seeing that she owed $284 billion. “My eyes just about popped out of my head,” Erie homeowner Mary Horomanski, 58, told the Erie Times-News.

 “We had put up Christmas lights and I wondered if we had put them up wrong.” Horomanski checked her account statement online earlier this month and saw that she was being zapped for $284,460,000,000 by Penelec, her electric provider.

She was told she had until November 2018 to pay the entire amount. Her first payment for December was only $28,156. After a call from Horomanki’s son, Penelec fixed the statement to show that the actual balance was $284.46, …