14 year-old charged $22,000+ library fine for six-day overdue book

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Thanks to a merger of two library computer systems, a 14 year-old boy was charged $22,840 for a book that was overdue by six days. Solid work by the QA dude on that merger!

Nice work. Too bad, that was probably the programmers bonus.

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Posted in Observations — by don on 05/26/06 (0) Comments

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