"Perhaps $1,000, $10,000, $100,000? But in this case, $146,000-plus, and it's just processed on somebody's account, where their typical billing was $118 per billing period? I'm just surprised at the lack of oversight." City still charging NSF fee

Martin submitted a new meter reading to the City of Winnipeg, and is waiting for a new bill, but said the city is still going to charge his mother an NSF fee because she didn't have enough money in her account for the $146,000 payment to clear.

"The first thing that they said to me was, 'Oh, you're going to have to pay a 30-some-dollar NSF fee for this bill not going through," said Martin.

"And I said, 'In what sort of reasonable world would you have expected that a pre-authorized debit for $146,000 to somebody's personal account would not go NSF?'"

What an incompetent bunch of petty bureaucrats.