Bank Error Makes Man a Billionaire

How would you like to go to check your bank balance, and discover there was more money than you thought in your account? Pretty sweet, right? What if you expected to find only a couple hundred bucks, and you had a bit more, like to the tune of nearly 10 billion dollars more? Wait, what?

That's how it went for a man from India who made that discovery this past weekend.

A schoolteacher named Parijat Saha only earns about $700 a month, but imagine his surprise when he checked his balance the other day, and was told his account had $9.8 billion dollars. Wow! What would you do? Would you make a quick withdrawl, and a quick getaway? Would you wait and hope for the best, that it was a miracle of some kind? Or would you do the right thing, and report the error to the bank? That's exactly what Saha did. Bank officials said since the money was "uncleared", so  it couldn't have been withdrawn anyway.

Ah...to be a billionaire, even if only for 1 day.

Via CBC News