Have you ever left a store or restaurant without looking at your receipt, only later to find a bogus charge? In most cases, the errors are innocent enough -- maybe the harried waitress at the local drive-thru accidentally tacked on an extra soft drink.

Even looking back at own our receipts, we sometimes can't recognize the products we purchased, and we'd never know that there was a glitch unless we were paying close attention.

But some receipts merit a double-take because of the sheer outrageousness of their totals, or the bizarre nature of the expense ($2 for a "farting charge?"). Those are the ones that have to be seen to be believed, like this collection of 10 outrageous cash register receipts that have gone viral on the web, courtesy of BuzzFeed. We can't say for sure who was hit with all these charges, but we know that somebody somewhere ponied up $50 for "nothing."

Check, please!



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1. Freddie Mac
Fortune 500 Rank: 20
Loss: $14.025 billion
The troubled Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, aka Freddie Mac, is a government-sponsored enterprise chartered by Congress to stabilize the nation's residential mortgage markets. However, despite the injection of massive bailout loans and government care, its $14 billion loss in 2010 has put a sledge hammer through its hopes of recovery. In fact, in March 2011, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner called on Congress to pass legislation within two years that would dissolve both Freddie Mac and its larger sibling, Fannie Mae.

2. Fannie Mae
Fortune 500 rank: 5
Loss: $14.014 billion
Back in June 2010, after its stock had traded below $1 a share for more than 30 days, mortgage giant Fannie Mae announced that it was being delisted from the NYSE, and little has given its shareholders reason to smile since then. For the first quarter of 2011, the company reported a loss of $8.7 billion, and has asked for another $8.5 billion in federal aid. The most recent losses came as a 1.8% decline in home prices around the country led more homeowners to default on loans that Fannie Mae had guaranteed.

3. Sprint Nextel Corp (S)
Fortune 500 rank: 85
Loss: $3.465 billion
Sprint Nextel, the third-largest U.S. wireless operator, has been struggling to hold onto its customers over the past few years, mainly due to complaints about poor service. The company has been aggressively working to improve its customer care and rebuild its image, and those efforts seem to be working: In the first quarter of 2011, Sprint Nextel reported net subscriber growth of 1.1 million customers -- its highest growth in five years -- bringing its total customer base to 51 million.

4. Energy Future Holdings Corp.
Fortune 500 rank: 292
Loss: $2.812 billion
Energy Future is a privately held energy company consisting primarily of TXUEnergy, the largest nonregulated retail electricity provider in Texas, and Luminant, which is engaged largely in power generation, wholesale power marketing and energy trading. Luminant suffered massive problems, outages and shutdowns in 2010. But broader issues certainly impacted Energy Future's revenues in 2010 as well, among them concerns about U.S. dependency on foreign oil and consumers' generally more conservative energy use during the continued recession.

5. Bank of America (BAC)
Fortune 500 rank: 9
Loss: $2.238 billion
Bank of America is the largest bank holding company in the United States, a position it reached through a series of big acquisitions. But the 2008 purchases of Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial have left it struggling with a host of expensive problems. In 2010, Bank of America was accused of defrauding local government organizations, schools and hospitals through the illegal investment of municipal bond sales and proceedings. Douglas Campbell, a former bank official, pleaded guilty to antitrust, conspiracy and fraud charges, and more executives within the company still under indictment and investigation.

6. AbitibiBowater
Fortune 500 rank: 474
Loss in Millions: $1.940 billion
AbitibiBowater, the third largest pulp and paper company in North America, has been dealing with reputational damage from its destruction of intact forest land and wildlife habitats. Its failure to properly manage large areas of old-growth Canadian forest lost the company major contracts and led to its filing for bankruptcy in 2009. Today, AbitibiBowater has successfully emerged from creditor protection after a 2010 reorganization and rebuilding effort. The transition was supported by unionized workers and aided politically in Canada, which eased regulations regarding pensions and job protection. A five-year contract was approved that included a 10% wage cut with increases to resume in 2012, a deal that is allowing the company to continue to recover.