Texas Man Receives Insanely High Utility Bill What the hell is going on out in Lubbock? KAMC reports that the City of Lubbock sent Mike Toombs a utility bill that was more than 250 times higher than usual. And it’s not like he received a paper bill that he could just take down to City Hall and get corrected. Instead, Toombs uses the auto pay option (and stories like this are the reason I do not). Get our free mobile app He noticed the bill when he checked his account to see if his IRS return had come in. He was shocked to see that quite the opposite had happened. His bank account showed a balance of negative $7,800: