Some people are really serious about getting their credit card bills paid on time and avoiding those late fees.
A recent story out of Buffalo, New York claims that a Canadian man was arrested after he tried to illegally cross the Niagara River in order to pay his credit card in person. Apparently, his credit card bill was due in short order and the man wanted to avoid paying… an $85 fee for sending his bill from Canada to his credit card issuer in the United States.
And, since he didn’t want his payment to be late in addition to paying the extra fee for paying outside of the country, he thought he would just hop on a rubber raft and cross the river to the United States.
Why didn’t the man just cross the bridge like most people? Well, it seems he had a legal dispute with the Canadian government. Therefore, he wouldn’t be able to use the bridge. So, instead, he braved the freezing cold waters and set sail.
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