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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RightF00T on February 11, 2006, 02:51:48 PM

Title: Problem Between Keyboard and Chair: Causes Loss of Thou$ands
Post by: RightF00T on February 11, 2006, 02:51:48 PM

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060210122809990006&ncid=NWS00010000000001

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$121,900 House Gets $8 Million Tax Bill

VALPARAISO, Ind. (Feb. 11) - A Valparaiso house erroneously valued at $400 million is to blame for budget shortfalls in municipalities and school districts in northwest Indiana, officials said.

Lippens believes a user tried to access a real estate record display by pressing R-E-D, but accidentally typed R-E-R, which brought up an assessment program written in 1995. The program is no longer in use, and technology officials did not know it could be accessed.

:O It's pretty ridicolous that one mistroke of a key could cause this much chaos.  Feel sorry for the guy in charge of maintaining the network. ;)