WATER BILL SHOCKS PENSIONER
A senior citizen who queried the amount of his water bill was shocked when at he received another bill demanding even more money.
Retired contract killer Bert Thistle, 86, originally took action after receiving a bill for a stunning £30,000.65
But his jaw dropped even further when he received the second bill, this time for £300,000.65.
Mr Thistle, of Sunflower Cottages, Swansdike, said: “I know I occasionally get through a bit of water, what with hosing down the missus and that, but to receive such a huge bill with no explanation fair took me back a bit.”
A spokesperson for water company Pipes-U-Like said: “We’d like to apologise to Mr Thistle for sending him a bill for the wrong amount. The truth is, we’ve been having problems with the ink cartridge in our printer recently, and sometimes the zeroes don’t come out properly.
“By way of an apology to Mr Thistle, we’d like to waive the extra 65 pence from the second bill and hope that this will go some way to restoring his trust in us.”
On Friday, the Observer learned that shop assistant Madge Pruett, 57, has been threatened with court action by Pipes-U-Like over her non payment of a bill for £48,000.
But Ms Pruett, who lives in Benelton Road, Traubert’s Heath, said that she never used water because she was allergic to it.
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