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(#10) A Video Store Customer Got Charged $91,000 For Renting 'The General's Daughter'
A customer got quite a shock when he tried to try to return his rented copy of The General's Daughter to a Super Video in upstate New York. A Y2K glitch resulted in the store's computer billing the customer $91,250 - an amount equivalent to the return being 100 years overdue!
The owner of the store, Terry Field, told Reuters: "The clerk and I were shocked and then zeroed out the late charge and gave the customer a free video rental and wished him 'Happy New Year.'"
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(#8) A Newborn Baby Was Accidentally Registered As Being 100 Years Old
Due to a Y2K glitch, the first baby born in Denmark in the 21st century was accidentally registered in the hospital's computer system as being 100 years old. Talk about skipping over an entire lifetime!
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(#15) Washington, DC Budget Reports Were Delayed
The District of Columbia replaced its old computerized financial management system with a new, Y2K-compliant system in late 1999. However, this upgrade did not keep some budget reports from being delayed.
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(#6) 911 Systems In Parts Of North Carolina Faltered
The 911 emergency system for Charlotte, NC, broke down on December 29, 1999, while it was undergoing testing to make sure it was Y2K ready.
911 systems in other parts of the country, such as Minneapolis, MN, and Orange County, Florida, also experienced problems connected to the Y2K bug.
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(#13) Lamonts Department Store Blamed Bankruptcy On Y2K Prep
Lamonts Apparel Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, which operated 38 department stores in the Pacific Northwest, claimed its cash flow had been badly affected by poor spring and summer sales. They also claimed there were unexpected costs while attempting to make the stores' computer systems Y2K ready. Lamonts spent $10 million to install new computerized cash registers and other equipment in an attempt to combat the Y2K bug.
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(#7) Employees Of Opera Company Were Unable To Collect Child Subsidies After Payroll System Changed The Ages Of Their Children
The Berlin-based Deutsche Opera company accidentally wiped out government child subsidies due to its staff members when its computer system erroneously set its date back to 1900. By doing so, the ages of anyone listed in the system - including the children of the employees - were altered. For instance, if a child was born in 1990, the computer system registered the person as 90 years old, which in turn automatically stopped the child allowance payment the employee should have received.
The company reset the computer system date to December 1999 as a temporary fix, then called in outside programmers to repair the system.
Heinz-Dieter Sense, the Opera company's financial director, downplayed the issue caused by the Y2K bug. ''It's an unpleasant problem, but it is limited in scope,'' he said. ''Our employees were not that terribly upset.''
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Y2K glitches also known as the Year 2000 Problem, the Y2K glitches is basically a computer program failure that deals with dates, not a virus. The impact of the Y2K glitches is huge. Database software, factory automation systems, mechanical equipment, and control systems all may be attacked by the Y2K glitches. The Gambia has become the first country in the world to be severely affected by the Y2K glitches, the power supply, and transportation, financial, and government services are interrupted.
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