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A married couple got their gas utility account turned on at their house back in 1972, but the gas company never finished the paperwork properly.
They had free gas service for about 40 years, because their account was active but the billing was never set up.
Later they divorce and the husband gets the house with the free gas service.
The gas company finally caught the problem sometime around 2014, and they sent him a bill for a decade’s worth of gas.
The guy told the company to send the bill to his ex-wife.
There was a clause in the divorce settlement that said that if the gas company ever was notified or discovered the free gas deal, the ex-wife would have to pay any past bill payments.
The arrangement was made so that the wife could never alert the company to their error without having to pay herself.
What was amazing was that two lawyers and a judge signed off on this while fully knowing what the guy was getting away with.
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