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Texas man nets, loses $4 trillion in a matter of hours

One of the sweetest Community Chest cards to draw in Monopoly is the one where a bank error grants you $200. Well, imagine drawing that card in real life and the error comes out to be $4 trillion. That's what happened to East Texas resident Reggie Theus, the world's first person to become a multitrillionaire by way of a banking error. The area director of a local cafe reportedly logged out and back into his account eight times, only to find that his windfall remained. But nothing this good lasts forever, as the bank soon corrected the error and Theus was thrust back into the 99 percent with the rest of us. It's too bad: He said he would've set aside $3 trillion to pay down the national debt. If only our actual billionaires were that kindhearted. [Source]

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