Chicago Woman’s $233K Water Bill: No Plumbing, Just Vacuumed Ghosts
Chicago woman billed $233,000 for water in a vacant home with zero plumbing—local officials still debate how water meters can rack up charges in an abandoned house. Trending: “Can you be billed for unused utilities?” and “What happens if your water meter is wrong?” The city’s own records list the address as uninhabitable, yet her bill reads like she irrigated Millennium Park. “It’s like being fined for a parking space on the moon,” she quips.
The city’s claim that a derelict, pipe-free house drank more water than a small aquarium raises questions about “disputing utility bills” and “how to check for water leaks if you have no pipes.” Officials inspect the cobwebbed basement, searching for liquid evidence, while the woman wonders if she’s funding an underground dolphin resort. “Apparently, I have the world’s thirstiest ghosts,” she deadpans.
In a city where the average home uses 7,000 gallons a month, her meter suggests the Sahara was secretly irrigated from her empty kitchen sink—without a working faucet in sight.
