Seriously. Below is the full story, as reported by TorrentFreak.com:
The 14 year old daughter of a city counselor in Spain is the source of a small political crisis in the city of Getafe. The girl used her mother’s work 3G modem to download some episodes of the popular TV-show ‘Lost’, resulting in a massive $40,000 bill.
Every parent knows that their kids can drive up a phone bill quickly, and the same goes for mobile Internet access when there’s no flat rate plan available. The daughter of a local politician in Spain recently embarrassed her mother by borrowing her work modem and running up a huge bill that any teenager could be proud of.
The girl in question couldn’t connect to her home WiFi network from her bedroom, so she borrowed her mother’s 3G modem to download some Lost episodes, among other things. What she didn’t know was that this would result in a $40,000 (30,000 Euro) bill at the end of the year.
Her mother, Blanca Rosa Alcántara, a city councilor for the People’s Party in Spain, protested: “I thought that it had unlimited downloading data rates.” In an official statement, representatives of the People’s Party at Getafe City Hall said that the party regrets “the improper use of the party’s Internet and phone lines by children”.
“I was absolutely unaware that such usage [using the 3G modem for downloading TV shows] could result in such excessive costs. I have a flat rate plan at my home and something like this has never happened before,” Alcántara added.
The councilor claims that she should have been warned against excessive use of the modem by the City Hall economic department, saying that this huge bill could have been prevented. Nevertheless, she promised to pay the entire bill including interest and hopes that the accident wont turn into a political issue.
Source: TorrentFreak.com
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March 9th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Wow that girl likes LOST more than me… D:
March 9th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
That girls likes LOST more than me too D:
March 9th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
That girl likes LOST more than me too too D:
March 9th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I, like, AM that girl lol
seriously though: just buy the dvds and put it on loop on every floor of the house
March 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
If only it was $42,000!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I hope those episodes were at least sub-titled in spanish, lol !!!
March 10th, 2009 at 1:37 am
English is a world language. I live in the Netherlands but if I download a tv show I watch it without subtitles and I can understand it. Subtitles are mostly translated half or bad. For example Sawyers nicknames almost never get translated… :\
March 10th, 2009 at 5:32 am
In Spain the show is translated to spanish, it’s not translated
And another Lost-freak-moment in Spain about Lost happened on Sunday, when one of the most viewed TV series in Spain, Aida, mentioned THE NUMBERS because one of the characters won the lottery with them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdq0p1a7qJM
(It’s in Spanish)
March 10th, 2009 at 5:43 am
I wanted to mean the show is translated to spanish, it’s not subtitled.
Sorry
March 10th, 2009 at 6:11 am
You go girl
March 10th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Well, it’s almost incredible all the things that are happening this week in Spain (Madrid) about Lost.
The Bingo thing (twice) and this one about that girl.
Good to know this things, because I live in Madrid^^
March 10th, 2009 at 10:48 am
I also find this video about a Dharma box in Aida (it’s in Spanish):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV5B2T3WtmY
March 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am
I live in Madrid i have to say that is quite odd that all this news are related to Lost, even if its a corruption case….
March 11th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
thanks for those videos
pretty funny
i live in puerto rico so yeah i know what they mean…
and that Dharma symbol is the the wave from Looking glass i think