Man Expecting $1,700 Stimulus Check Finds An Extra $8.2 Million In His Bank Account In Brutal Uncle Sam Oopsie

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As the first wave of stimulus checks have begun to hit Americans’ bank accounts, Uncle Sam almost gifted one Indiana man a brand new life.

Charles Calvin, a volunteer firefighter in New Chicago, Indiana, was burdened with the biggest corona-cockblock imaginable during a weekend trip to the convenience store.

“I went to the ATM at the Family Express and once I withdrew $200 out of my account I looked at the available balance still left in my account,” he told WGNTV.

Calvin was expecting to see an extra $1,700—$1,200 for himself, and another $500 for a dependent.  Instead, his available balance was $8,200,000.

Calvin, baffled, ran his card again to make sure he wasn’t seeing things. He wasn’t. The balance still read $8.2 million, or the maximum individual stimulus check for 6,833 Americans.

On Monday morning, Calvin called his bank and they said they didn’t see that amount in his checking account anymore, just the $1,700 he was expecting to receive.

“It kind of sucks,” he said. “You go from being a millionaire one second then back to being broke again. But hey, once you’re poor you don’t have anywhere else to go but up.”

Truer words have never been spoken, Calvin.