Coach driver given $163,000 bill for journey that would only have been possible if he circled Earth 25 times at the speed of sound

An Icelandic Coach driver was given an insane $163,000 bill for a journey that would only have been possible if he genuinely broke the laws of physics by circling the Earth 25 times at the speed of sound.

The bill claimed he had driven close to one million kilometres in a single month.

That distance would only be achievable if his coach had been circling the planet at supersonic speeds.

Unsurprisingly, the driver says the numbers are complete fiction, and he is refusing to pay.

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A bemused Icelandic coach driver was hit with a $163,000 bill

The bizarre story comes from Egilsstaðir in eastern Iceland, where a coach driver received a bill totaling nearly ISK 20 million, which converts to roughly $163,000.

According to the charge, the coach had logged almost one million kilometres during January alone.

To put that into perspective, most long-haul trucks would struggle to rack up even a fraction of that distance in a year, let alone a single month in Iceland.

The driver said there was no chance the mileage was correct and believed a serious error had occurred somewhere in the system that tracks distance.

The invoice appeared to have been generated automatically based on recorded usage, which suggests the issue is likely tied to faulty data rather than anything the driver actually did.

Still, automated or not, the number on the bill is very real, and the driver made it clear he has no intention of paying for a journey that never happened.

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He allegedly circled Earth 25 times at the speed of sound

When the claimed distance is broken down, the scale of the error becomes almost comical.

Earth’s circumference is just over 40,000 kilometers, meaning one million kilometers would equal roughly 25 full laps around the planet.

To achieve that in a single month, the coach would have needed to travel at around the speed of sound, nonstop, without refueling, resting, or encountering any physical limitations.

That would put the bus comfortably into supersonic aircraft territory, something no road-going vehicle has ever come close to achieving.

The report highlights just how wildly unrealistic the figures are, reinforcing the idea that the mileage log is fundamentally broken.

While no official explanation has been confirmed, a tracking or logging malfunction is the most likely culprit.

For now, the case stands as a reminder of how a single data error can snowball into a six-figure problem, especially when automated systems are trusted without question.

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