Daily News Talks to PayPal 'Quadrillionaire'

The headline for Michael Walsh’s NYDN item uses the word “glitch.” But that’s not quite right.

A glitch is forgetting to include a decimal point and leaving the lunch waitress a $920 tip instead of $9.20. Logging into PayPal to find 92 quadrillion cruelly subtracted is more like a mega-glitch, a glitchasaurus, an OG (Original Glitch).

Freelance journalists currently checking their PayPal accounts for an expected payment will get a chuckle out of the hometown of 56-year-old five-comma goof recipient Christopher Reynolds.

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