parents be glad...that's a whole bunch of zlotys

i don't know about your house, be we've had a few hiccups with the whole text messaging thingy and the shock reality of the bill when it comes and you realized you texted a whole bunch to somebody who was out of network...how about this story...

So this Polish bus driver decides to enter a contest, the Associated Press reports:

Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in the northwestern Polish city of Slupsk, ran up a tab of some 94,000 zlotys ($34,000) with his text messages while trying to win a 100,000-zloty ($36,000) SMS contest that ended June 30, Slupsk city transport spokesman Hubert Boba told The Associated Press.

Boba said a city bus drivers' monthly company phone bill is supposed to be limited to 15 zlotys ($5).

Wojcik sent an average of 1,200 SMS text messages a day, each costing 2.40 zlotys ($0.86), on his work cell phone.

Wojcik told TVN24 television he wanted to buy a second car with his possible winnings.

"Now I'm without work," he said.